{"id":21536,"date":"2024-01-29T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=21536"},"modified":"2024-01-29T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:36:52","slug":"the-founding-fathers-talk-ai-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/29\/the-founding-fathers-talk-ai-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founding Fathers talk AI art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, not exactly\u2014but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/rbpe.03902300\/?st=text\">T-Paine&#8217;s words<\/a> about how we value things still resonate today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Paine1-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Paine1-1024x328.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21539\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Paine1-1024x328.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Paine1-300x96.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Paine1-768x246.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Paine1-1536x492.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Paine1-2048x655.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We humans are fairly good at pricing effort (notably in dollars paid per hour worked), but we struggle much more with pricing <em>value<\/em>. Cue the <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2018\/01\/14\/time-art\/\">possibly apocryphal story<\/a> about Picasso asking $10,000 for a drawing he sketched in a matter of seconds, but the ability to create which had taken him a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of related thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>My artist friend is a former Olympic athlete who talks about how people bond through shared struggle, particularly in athletics. For him, someone using AI-powered tools is similar to a guy showing up at the gym with a forklift, using it to move a bunch of weight, and then wanting to bond afterwards with the actual weightlifters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I see ostensible thought leaders crowing about the importance of &#8220;taste,&#8221; but I wonder how they think that taste is or will be developed in the absence of effort.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As was said of\u2014and by?\u2014Steve Jobs, &#8220;The journey is the reward.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>[Via Louis DeScioli]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly\u2014but T-Paine&#8217;s words about how we value things still resonate today: We humans are fairly good at pricing effort (notably in dollars paid per hour worked), but we struggle much more with pricing value. Cue the possibly apocryphal story about Picasso asking $10,000 for a drawing he sketched in a matter of seconds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21543,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions\/21543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}