Tim Minchin on art and AI

"Humans do seem dead-set on conveniencing themselves into meaninglessness".

Tim Minchin's "optimistic and defiant" commentary on AI specifically and the arts more generally really hit a note with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSKfN6pSMs

He's right, of course. The convenience of AI-generated art is the very quality which renders it worthless, as art. Even if you disagree on aesthetic grounds, you can't deny the economics. An infinitely supply of anything inherently drives down its value.

The hopeful message here is that we need more art, more connection, more empathy, more HUMAN in the age of AI.

It might just be that the muddy fountain of AI slop being smeared across the internet today will simply bring into sharper relief the golden glimmer of human creativity.

Update! Take the "optimistic and defiant" pledge to purchase non-AI art for your corporate office: https://optimisticallydefiant.org/