alt Hacker NewsMeet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
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I tried reading the article but after the third time the page’s scroll state reset on its own due to all the dynamic ads/popups/notices, I had to give up.
“No, I didn't know about the exhibit before that day. And then I saw the Al piece and it was just—as an artist myself, it was insulting to see something of such little effort alongside all these beautiful pieces in the gallery. It shouldn't be acceptable for this "art," if you will, to be put alongside these real great pieces.”
What an impulsive fellow.
Its exactly this kind of stunt being called "art" that has devalued the word out of any positive connotations.
CW: Do you use AI for anything?
GG: I don’t really use it period. I miss the Wikipedia blurbs being at the top of webpages. If I’m looking up a simple math fact that I don’t know—like what the weight of something is—I’ll look at the AI summary, but I never, almost never, hit the expand button.
Finally, a proper example of direct action.
"No officers, I don't know where the AI art exhibit went" Suspiciously AI art exhibit shaped belly:
People used to get arrested for infringing copyright, now they get arrested (or murdered, see below) for defending it.
And the thieves sit in Davos, together with representatives of a party that wants to steal IP, Greenland, Venezuela and many other things.
And the press appeases the thieves instead of asking about the murder of Suchir Balaji.
I find that people who are the most opposed to diffusion models are usually the most ignorant about the technology. AI art doesn't begin and end with Midjourney and OpenAI. If you don't know what a controlnet, comfyui node, lcm, or lora is, then I'm not sure you really have anything valuable to lend to the conversation. There's a massive world of tools and techniques out there, and I just cannot fathom why people can't be bothered to look beyond the most readily available knowledge and be so insistent in their moral correctness.
To eat AI art is human. But to digest it, is divine
Slightly tangential:
> He initially wanted to press charges because Granger’s act “violates the sanctity of the gallery,” but changed his mind
> Left: Graham Granger after his arraignment outside the court building
I was beginning to think "pressing charges" was a myth (popularised by TV shows like Law & Order) and this article didn't exactly change my mind about that.
Do US state attorneys actually give two shits about what the victim wants? Is it someone's job to read an email inbox and systematically approve/reject citizens' pressed charges? Do they even pretend to?
A performance artist criticizing an AI artist for low effort. Hmm
Next he should go eat Sherrie Levine photographs. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267214
> Dwyer claims Granger’s act was akin to slashing someone’s tires to protest the oil industry.
Granger's protest was properly executed as you slash the tires of the oil trucks and oil execs - you strike the people peddling what you are protesting. So of course Dwyer is trying to downplay the significance.