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My very favorite piece of art is beautiful. It is also something that AI fundamentally cannot create. It is three videos. This is one of them: https://www.lenk
by UncleMeat 10d ago
My very favorite piece of art is beautiful. It is also something that AI fundamentally cannot create.
It is three videos. This is one of them: https://www.lenkaclayton.com/work#/the-distance-i-can-be-from-my-son/ https://www.lenkaclayton.com/work#/the-distance-i-can-be-fro...
In these three videos she sets up a tripod and tells her toddler to walk away from her. She is behind the camera. He toddles away, occasionally looking back at her or checking out something on the ground or falling on his butt. At some point he is too far away and she runs after him, entering the frame from behind the camera. The video stops and shows the distance he was able to be away before she had to chase after him.
The videos are sweet and funny but also engrossing and powerful. The tension builds as you watch it. Is this the moment where he is too far away? What if that were my son? Would I have run after him at this point? He sure is getting close to those trees.
But most importantly it expresses parenthood. The video only works because a real human experienced that very particular feeling of worry as her child was just a bit too uncomfortably far away. Because an AI can never have this feeling it can never create this art.
I do not believe that a labor-less world is around the corner. But if it was, we can just make things like this. And the world would be beautiful.