I am all for supporting local artists and I feel that “handcrafted in XXX” products make great souvenirs when you’re connected to those places. Still, if some AI hallucinated me a perfect novel for my interests, or generated something I couldnt tell was manufactured or created by a master, I would happily enjoy it.
“How can I tell if this is slop so I can know to hate it” sounds stupid to me: good is good. When it comes to art / food / products, I want the best experience for ME. If I want human connectedness, then I’ll go interact with a human directly.
I can do without wasted water, power, and money, but in the abstract it seems to bother everyone on Lemmy to enjoy something a person didn’t make. I don’t have that hang-up.
I don’t even know what that means.
If the way you get “human connection to art” is exclusively by viewing things people you have no connection to have made, maybe it’s worthwhile to take a painting or pottery class with humans you can actually directly relate to? I’m inclined to say that 1st person experience is more valuable here if you’re going to take the subjective enjoyment factor away and make “connection” the thing that makes art worth experiencing.
I have taken art classes. Maybe it is a factor in appreciating art in this way - do you do anything creative?
Sure. I dance, it’s how I met my wife. And also I enjoy painting and writing but I didn’t take any classes on those since high school.