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Kotlopou • today at 8:40 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

I don't understand the supposed value of AI-made art tailored to the viewer's wishes. One of the best film-watching experiences I've had recently was After Hours, which I got sent to by some random online article linking to a scene [1]. I would never have asked for this film or been able to describe it without having seen it. My favorite book of all time is One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I was forced to read in high school (balancing out all of the other nonsense they made us read) -- it's set in a small Colombian town and has about as little to do with my life (in a capital city in Central Europe) as imaginable. I love the webcomic 1/0 [2], whose author was a creationist when writing it (I found it as an insufferable atheist kid).

We find art that is fun and interesting and unexpected and it expands what we are. That's one of the purposes of art. Watching something predictable eventually gets your survival boredom instinct to kick in. Is this not a common experience?

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iwo4-wcodpM&pp=0gcJCXICo7VqN5tD

[2] https://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=170