https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing I did well, I got 30/42 or 43 I think? (~70%) Average was 60%
- Talk about which of your heuristics worked, which didn’t, and which will soon be obsolete. People point out that AI includes meaningless detail, but the more basic point is that detail is effortless for AI, so you should expect to see more of it (what else is effortless for AI?)
- Dall-E house style is more about this detail, and ig being overly rlhf’d into golden hour lighting
- Also AI doesn’t find the same things significant, or really know what’s good or bad/what people will focus on to quite the same extent. So there are lots of boring faces with beautiful backgrounds (since both are judged relative to the human artist face/background baselines)
See response: https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/school-of-rembrandt-fake-vermeers
Maybe compare what was so interesting about the amateur flash photography I sent to G?
Oh duh this is the same stuff as ornamentation becoming cheaper to produce, so the elites moved away from it. (if that’s actually true historically). This means we should see a similar move towards minimalist art being high status once again, as the plebs are able to make more ornamental kitsch. Probably the same applies across mediums. Long novels should also be slightly lower status, but I’m less confident about that. Certainly rhyming poems will be even lower status. The simpler supply increase price drops, there’s more ornate art art should go through without the complex status stuff
Oh! Fun parallel! AI art models build surfaces easily but struggle with physicals, they generate 2d but are still getting better at 3d physical coherence. This is clearest in video models. Anyway point is they are very fluent at surfaces, but under the surfaces there’s nothing there. In the same way outward symbols of mattering (details in part of a painting or ornamentation) that used to be costly are now cheap so we care less about them. Point is just that surfaces/outward signs got cheap which detached them from their original source of value (either simply scarcity or a causal connection to a human caring enough to make it (which aren’t unconnected of course))