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In deep learning’s forward–backward sweep of prediction–correction, it seems like the process of weaving back and forth has followed the history of programmable systems, from the first Jacquard weaving looms of the early nineteenth century, which were controlled by punched cards, to the deep learning systems of the twenty-first century.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
One of the main themes of anti-generative-models critique is that it heralds the end of artistic innovation; the models automate the recycling of past cultural production, further depleting the world of the kinds of audiences that could support an avant-garde. The rebuttal to this is usually takes the position that all artistic innovation has always been no more than remixing and repurposing elements from the past to make something new, and AI models are no different from previous technical developments that allowed for new tactics of appropriation and transformation.
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Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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