Me: I hate the way we talk about “content” like it’s some kind of fungible substance
Also me: I wish I could just plug something into my brain and the creative stuff would come out
I wonder if this is the appeal of generative AI for other people: it looks like the fantasy of your words or images just tumbling out (even though that’s not what it is at all)
@misc
You’re on to something here. There’s that “tip of the tongue” feeling of a creative idea •wanting• to come out, of it being right there but not quiiiite possible to articulate. The gulf between that feeling and the idea being fully realized can feel so vast, and painful.
But: I would venture that with artistic maturity comes the realization that in that gap is where the most important work happens.
@inthehands Yeah, I don’t have that maturity thing. Just the pain. :-/
@inthehands that sounded more dramatic than I intended
@misc
Eh, we’re talking about art here, go for it
@misc
One of the recurring themes of my late musical mentor and friend, Donald Betts, was that the biggest artistic things happen in the tiniest details. Architecture lives and dies in the nuances.
All that filling in that makes the process of artistic realization so slow and painful, that’s where it’s •at•.
@inthehands Well, going on 40 years with nothing much to show for it, I must be onto something big.
I think for the more innocent that's true. For the more mercenary the attitude seems to be "This is shit but good enough for my purposes and also I don't have to pay anybody." Which is an approach that has a pretty short shelf life TBH.