I was only making a koke, based on the footwear in the collection. Personally, I have very broad view of what constitutes art, although I do not think my photography constitutes "art," except perhaps for one or two accidental creations.
Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 11:52 PM Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > I dunno. Art remains art. An "AI" is just another constructed thing by > which humans have extended their abilities to influence and manipulate the > world we live in. We already use automatons to assemble our cars, our toys, > our cameras, and run a lot of our essential infrastructure. There's really > little difference between what is Art directly created by human hands and > Art that is indirectly created by the minds that humans embue their > machines with. > > Until a definitive test of what constitutes machine intelligence exists, > and until machines can reliably and consistently pass that test, any Art is > the result of human artiface and mind regardless of whether it is directly > or indirectly created. > > If you want to put a simple limitation on "what is art" to say that it > must be made by human hands, well, that is just fine … but most photographs > will then be marginally not-art since we already rely upon a whole range of > machines, of varying levels of "intelligence", to produce our photographs. > > G > — > Godfrey DiGiorgi - [email protected] - 408.431.4601 > > "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." > --Mark Twain > > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

