Art, Labor, and AI-nxiety
Created in collaboration with an old classmate, this podcast asks how much of our anxiety about AI-generated art comes from treating art as a commodity…and how those concerns might change if the value of art weren’t measured by its ability to generate income.
I later used an excerpt of this conversation in a zine I created. The text is reproduced below for readability:
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“How do you feel about AI art and its implications?”
“If you think about it through the lens of photography, think about stock photos. Do stock photos take away from photography?”
“So you’re saying this art, form of making art, shouldn’t be feared by artists that put artistic intention into their work?”
“AI art was made for convenience. People play around with it, but ultimately it’s for commercialization, not curation.”
“Do you think that anyone would care about the moral implications of AI if we didn’t tie art to our brand and money making possibilities?”
“For whatever reason someone makes art, if we just focused on that and didn’t rely on its economical value would anyone actually care about the existence of AI art?”