This paper by Ignas Kalpokas has the sort of title that I find irresistible: “Work of Art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction.” Sadly, it doesn’t live up to what that title promises; it doesn’t provide a thorough historicization of “AI” that draws on and illuminates Benjamin’s dialectic of mechanical reproduction and the “aura” of particular works.
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The generator and the discriminator
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This paper by Ignas Kalpokas has the sort of title that I find irresistible: “Work of Art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction.” Sadly, it doesn’t live up to what that title promises; it doesn’t provide a thorough historicization of “AI” that draws on and illuminates Benjamin’s dialectic of mechanical reproduction and the “aura” of particular works.