#if you think using a camera is “automation” you have worms in your brain and you need to see a doctor | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bixels · 22 hours ago

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As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

#ask me #anon #no more patience for this #i've heard this for the past 2 years #“an object created and controlled by companies” anon the company cannot barge into your home and take your camera away #or randomly change how it works on a whim. you OWN the camera that's the whole POINT #the entire point of a camera is that i can control it and my body to produce art. photography is one of the most PHYSICAL forms of artmakin #you have to communicate with your space and subjects and be conscious of your position in a physical world.#that's what makes a camera a tool. generative ai (if used wholesale) is not a tool because it's not an implement that helps you #do a task. it just does the task for you. you wouldn't call a microwave a “tool”#but most importantly a camera captures a REPRESENTATION of reality. it captures a specific irreproducible moment and all its data #read Roland Barthes: Studium & Punctum #generative ai creates an algorithmic IMITATION of reality. it isn't truth. it's the average of truths.#while conceptually that's interesting (if we wanna get into media theory) but that alone should tell you why a camera and ai aren't the sam #ai is incomparable to all previous mediums of art because no medium has ever solely relied on generative automation for its creation #no medium of art has also been so thoroughly constructed to be merged into online digital surveillance capitalism #so reliant on the collection and commodification of personal information for production #if you think using a camera is “automation” you have worms in your brain and you need to see a doctor #if you continue to deny that ai is an apparatus of tech capitalism and is being weaponized against you the consumer you're delusional #the fact that SO many tumblr lefists are ready to defend ai while talking about smashing the surveillance state is baffling to me #and their defense is always “well i don't engage in systems that would make me vulnerable to ai so if you own an apple phone that's on you”#you aren't a communist you're just self-centered

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