This thread dances around a bit but has some really good nuggets in it.
AI mediates a deeply flawed and exclusionary understanding of the world.
This understanding of the world is from pulling nigh-infinite amounts of information from the internet.
What's in the sausage though? According to Chat GPT 4, apparently DALL•E "is not explicitly trained on art but on a wide range of images from the internet".
Mmh, so it's the internet's fault?
We know that the majority of content on the internet is produced by a minority of its users, with a significant portion coming from Western, English-speaking users.
Where does this lead?
AI’s understanding of art (biased), informed by the internet's documentation of it (biased), is a bunch of riffs on the Western canon (biased).
Seems like a reasonable slope to slide right down.