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. Instead it makes two interrelated claims that I find dubious: that generative models (1) reveal the “collective unconscious of society” and (2) undermine the individual human subject to make way for “more than human” ontologies.
The generator and the discriminator
The generator and the discriminator
The generator and the discriminator
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. Instead it makes two interrelated claims that I find dubious: that generative models (1) reveal the “collective unconscious of society” and (2) undermine the individual human subject to make way for “more than human” ontologies.