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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by Jtarii on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:27PM (#47856935)
The connection with the artist, directly, or across space and time, is a critical part of any artwork. It is one human attempting to communicate some emotional experience to another human.

When I watch a Lynch film I feel some connection to the man David Lynch. When I see a AI artwork, there is nothing to connect with, no emotional experience is being communicated, it is just empty. It's highest aspiration is elevator music, just being something vaguely stimulating in the background.

Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by slibhb on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @10:01AM (#47863808)
I don't agree. If a poem is moving, it's moving. It doesn't matter who wrote it.

I understand these are fundamental questions about aesthetics that people differ over. But that's how it works for me. However, ultimately, I think people will realize that I'm right around the time that AI does start generating good art.