• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Look at this 40 000 year old cave painting. A looooong time ago, someone had the urge to leave their hand print in a cave. Why did they do that? We’ll never know.

    That person has been dead for thousands of years. We don’t really know anything about them. But whenever I look at this picture, I’m reminded that this was made by a human who once walked on this same Earth, drank water, breathed air, ate animals and plants, just like you and I. It was made by a human with a beating heart, emotions, beliefs and opinions.

    Can AI make impressive and beautiful things? Sure! But those things have very little value to me, because when I look at them, I can’t think about the emotions and opinions the artist wanted to capture. I have molded pieces of clay into pots and painted them, just like my ancestors have done for thousands of years. A robot doesn’t have ancestors.

    To you, art is simply something nice to be consumed. To me, art is a mortal human’s attempt to capture the vast greatness of the whole cosmos and leave a legacy that will survive the rise and fall of multiple civilisations and eras.