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And what makes it trash? It's hard enough defending moral realism but trying to defend something like aesthetic realism is even more difficult especially if it's supposed to yield this kind of result.

Sure, you can talk about what people would most appreciate given unlimited time to reflect and appreciate. But that's particularly hard to apply to poetry where too much familiarity with a short work can render it trite/overly familiar etc. And you don't want to say that it's appreciation given time and exposure to other works because then you end up with the paradoxical result that poems which inspire battalions of imitations/homages aren't good.

Besides, its only coercive pressure that even sorta makes this seem to reach the right outcomes. Truth is lots of people most enjoy -- no matter how much they reflect or consume -- the most juvenile works (fart jokes etc) the most it's just those people tend not to become literature scholars or lie.

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Seems to me that ultimately we should evaluate art merely on its ability to provide joy to those who consume it and dispense with this awful idea that it's even possible for the majority of people to have bad taste.

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I enjoyed the haikus because they are amusing, AI or otherwise. I'm wondering if AI whitman would possibly be worse than regular whitman. my guess is no.

Also, I took Scott's art test. I did poorly. It wasn't that I 'liked' AI art better. It was that I couldn't always tell.

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