#agr notepad

It has been many years since we made machines "think" for "themselves", and as so the emergence of the so called AI "art" rose as developments in the field sprung up tenfold day after day. Midjourney, Dall-E and so many other image generation tools are now being developed even the sloths of our society could create "art".

But is it indeed art? As I traveled through life and have absorbed insanely high amounts of opinions from social media, the general consensus is still the same: no, it's not art. Though it is very wild to think about for those who haven't stepped into the world of art, it isn't.

Ever since the first humans can create and comprehend speech, developed tools and live in structures, they expressed themselves, through painting and early forms of literature, trying to explain natural events, give lessons, and/or purely entertainment. In the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years in this puny space rock we call home, we have accumulated stories; of life, love, peace and war, good and evil, utopias and dystopias; that have been purely been in our own minds, with the brain's complex electrochemical circuitry, giving us fantastic world to adore, or apocalyptic worlds we could learn from.

But, artificial intelligence, in my own personal opinion, would never replicate the raw emotions Shakespeare has injected into the story of Romeo and Juliet, nor Rizal's desire for autonomy with Noli and El Fili, as they only know numbers, represented by only 1s and 0s, they only know what a "banana" is because they grabbed the library of Alexandria and back, and shoved it down into numbers they only comprehend.

They're just purely performing orders, in a sequence, making art comoditized in the process of "infinite growth" for capitalism. They only ran out of problems to solve, to the point they're creating ones to only solve, leaving actual problems like poverty and homelessness in the dust, in search for infinite growth.

I have written some outspoken criticisms about the proliferation of artificial intelligence before, in fact, I have written a literary piece already about the topic last November in our school publication. The thing is that, artificial intelligence will never replicate the intrinsic properties of human art, the life experiences a person can make such artistry and the environment they all live in.

And even though the promise of accessibility towards art in the disabled has been provided, I know for a fact that artists with disabilities learned to adapt with their problems, turning such into insane abilities. The fact that we have amazing pieces of art, music and literature (I know for a fact that Stevie Wonder creates such good tunes while also blind), even with such disabilities proves that art is already democratized more than ever, it is that you, my dear reader who can unlock a whole world of possibilities.

So, grab a pen and paper. Write, doodle, hum, anything. It's hard at first, I know. But it'll get easier as years go by. It's you, who decides if you will pursue it.

A pen ain't that expensive. So go ahead and let your imagination run free.