AI-assisted art can still reveal the maker behind it

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Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

1. 15:21

   I think with, so something that for me was like truly an inflection point was design, everything to do with UI design and just all of this because I think it was my first time where I was actually like playing around with not just like the code, but the actual like artifacts from that code. Like what is, like I started thinking about what is my actual visual identity for the first time just doing this.

2. 15:46

   super fun right like so empowering so i mean it's amazing yeah and and so i would feed it like pinterest boards and i would say like sort of deconstruct these images find the common thread between all of them um and so for you is the intuition sort of These things like design are ultimately solved through code, because I think for me, it's like, okay, everything that I'm doing is still in 3.js. And there's definitely other tools that are much better suited for design that I want to eventually learn, but it feels like the code might get us there.

3. 16:21

   I think so. I think solving art is like, what does that even mean, right? I think I have a lot of fairly strong opinions about what does solving art really mean. And again, you can probably sort of separate creative expression as like, the thing that makes art valuable to a lot of people is this idea of like, oh, it's a part of your soul. Like I can look at something and be like, I now know you better somehow because I looked at this.

4. 16:44

   And I think using AI or not using AI doesn't really play a role here. But a thing that's probably changing is that it's pretty hard for people receiving it to differentiate. like i don't really know if this took you one prompt or if you like talk to claude it was like months exactly exactly yeah and um i think we i think this happened like a few times in the past already like this happened when when recorded music came out this happened when like the photograph came out um and in in any of these cases it didn't really diminish the artistic value of the original method and it also like gave birth to these new ideas of like i think nobody would really debate today whether or not artists can do recorded music or like use cameras. Yes. And I think we're probably gonna see the same thing if I was super optimistic. For you and me like I really enjoy giving Claude like the

5. 17:36

   wildest mood boards like insane mood boards. Yes. Where I'm describing like you know feelings I have or like vibes I enjoy. Like the first iterations of my personal website as I redesigned it were like yeah I super enjoy being in these national parks and I like these national parks less also I like the color blue and like you just do the same insane process that I think you sometimes watch full-time artists have and that can be so fun yeah it can be so fun I do think this like personalization uh given given a tool that's so powerful for personalization helps with self-discovery just kind of in general yeah like there's like so much that I've sort of learned about myself just through interacting with Claude all the time and i don't know if it's just the nature of having such an always-on like relationship

6. 18:23

   with a something that can talk back to you yeah um i i don't know what it is but i just feel like there's been an actual like evolution that i that i've experienced through using the product yeah