alt Hacker NewsWouldn't it make more sense to strike OpenAI, or Midjourney, or whatever else then?
Aside from that, I don't think this "protest" will result in anything more than maybe some increased security (and maybe more arrests if he inspires others to do similar).
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Got you to talk about it, though, didn't it?
> CW: Do you consider what you did protest, performance art, both, or something else?
> GG: Both. It’s a protest against the school’s AI policy specifically and it’s performance art because I needed something that would elicit a reaction. So this could reach more people.
Not everything has to be a global battle for all the marbles. Sometimes you're just pissed off that your school has a stupid policy and the administration won't listen to you. No better way to change that than make the news (aside from maybe going after donors).
I mean -- we're talking about it, aren't we?
Maybe I'm giving more credit than is due, but my mind went to an inverted kind of echo of Cloaca... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_(art_installation)
Eating all AI "art" that tries to displace real artists in these spaces is the only moral decision.
I'm sure he'll be happy to eat whatever sama frames in the MOMA too, but you can only protest what's in your reach.