>>716029220
>>716029220
AI isn't truly intelligent. It's machine learning. And the machines learn from studying many, many examples of human creativity, and then replicates it. It is, in essence, a little piece of the collective consciousness of humanity. So, when an AI makes something like a fantasy image, it makes an image from all the fantasy it has been exposed to. It has the general soul of humanity behind it, but a general soullessness when it comes to individual direction or intent beyond what the prompter could make it do. That's AI's own brand of soullessness - being a sort of amalgamation of innumerable things and not having much individual intent or vision behind it.
This is different from the AAA brand of soullessness. This is a sort of soullessness that comes from being forced to fit the various superstitions of the investors, of having to fit in with various social and ideological mores, of trying to be as safe as possible and also of trying to appeal to as wide a population as possible, all while ALSO trying to turn heads.
There's a certain unique kind of soullessness you get from a product that's trying to be edgy and rebellious to bring attention to the product while also trying to not offend anyone. Or trying to make a traditional fantasy game (because fantasy has an established fanbase) while also trying to not be a traditional fantasy game at all (because traditional fantasy isn't a wide enough audience). So on and so forth. The resulting weird magenta punk Kindergarten that you see these days is something that could only be produced by a soulless corpo process.
So, AI is soulless in the sense of being an amalgamation of thousands or millions of other things without much of its own individual identity. AAA is soulless in the sense of edgeless, incoherent creative bankruptcy.
