'Salience': why AI art feels shallow beyond lack of intent
_akpiper · x · 2026-10-02
Tomas Pueyo argues the key reason people dislike AI creations is depth of intent: a painting takes dozens of hours and a film thousands of person-years, so every detail is thought through — while AI productions look good but carry shallow, meaningless detail, "like sweeteners with no calories."
@akpiper builds on this with the concept of "salience": we experience art not just for the artist's intent, but to be provoked by what someone felt was salient to human life. What an artist chooses to foreground is itself expression — and that missing judgment is what makes AI art feel shallow.
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