Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by makerofthings on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @07:51AM
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I don’t think that’s completely true, there is an art to code beyond it just being correct. There are a great many correct implementations of a program, but only some of them are really beautiful as well. Most people don’t see the code or appreciate this, but the difference between correct and art is clear to me when I see it.
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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by bananaflag on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @07:56AM
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Code can be beautiful or ugly but that doesn't make it art.
Art is not just about beauty, it is about expressing the mind (feelings, experience etc) of the author. AI will never do that (except if it learns to express its own experiences, which would be art, but not something competing with human art; it would be like if we had contact with alien art).
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by makerofthings on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:07AM
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Code is my art and is how I express myself. I agree that nothing that AI does is art.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by bananaflag on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:11AM
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Fair enough.
Code in general is obviously not art, which is all that matters here.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by makerofthings on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:16PM
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I respectfully disagree, I think code has always been more of an art than a science. It's an odd one, I'll grant you, as you need to do a lot of work to really appreciate it.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by peepee1982 on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:30AM
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I agree that it's "more art than a science", colloquially speaking. But I would still not call it art. Not by a long stretch.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by peepee1982 on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:29AM
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I think most of us agree that writing code can be expressive. But I don't think that alone qualifies you code as art.
I have written code myself that I deem beautiful and expressive. But I'm also a musician, and making music (and listening to it deeply) has given me such intense, mystic experiences, that they dwarf anything I've ever experienced writing code. It's also much harder to make good music because it requires a kind of courage and psychological constitution that is simply not required for writing code.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
by peepee1982 on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:23AM
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I think that's the main thing many people who've never seriously made art or aren't deeply involved with it on an emotional and psychological level are unable to grasp.