Are AI Selfies & Digital Narcissism Going To Destroy Art As We Know It?

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If you've been on Instagram this week, you've probably come across the Lensa App. We've all been turning ourselves into fairies, manga characters, and painters muses using AI technology. But is creating these selfies ethical? Are they going to put artists out of a job? Are they just harmless fun? Or an example of our rampant narcissism?

This week, Ione and Eden are digging into the rise of AI on social media; from whether these apps are stealing art from small creators, to horror in the AI realm, chatbots that could change our lives and if a few fantastical selfies are worth the hidden cost to the creative industries.

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0:00.0	Hi, Eden. Hi, Ione. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ayani and I'm the founding
0:06.8	editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sit Girls, which you should buy for everyone you know for Christmas.
0:12.7	Yeah, great Christmas present. I'm Eden and the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast.
0:20.0	This is the Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. Do we have any reviews? We do. Woo-woo, woo, woo, woo, bo, bo, bo! Five stars, thank you Sleepover Club. I love this podcast, especially enjoyed your recent app on anti-intellectualism.
0:39.6	It really has me thoughtfully considering how I interact with social media and media in general.
0:44.0	There must be a balance between thinking critically and also just enjoying things and not getting harassed for it, right?
0:48.7	We shall see.
0:49.7	Love heart, love her.
0:50.4	That is from Aspiring Bird girl in the US of A.
0:55.6	I feel like that's also very relevant to our last week's episode.
1:00.1	I mean, it's kind of relevant to this week's episode as well.
1:02.7	That's very true.
1:03.9	They let people enjoy things club versus the everything is evil and you need to start what
1:08.4	you're doing club.
1:09.7	Last week's episode was interesting. Oh God.
1:13.5	I've been being called a Satanist all week. Me and Eden have been fighting for our lives in the
1:16.9	comment section. I think this is the most we've had to fight for our lives, truly. Since the Amber
1:21.6	Heard episode, Deffo, but also I think even a bit more this one. Yeah. Scary times.
1:27.9	But we hope we tackled it with nuance and thoughtfulness.
1:32.5	We do not condone child abuse.
1:35.2	Let's have said again.
1:38.4	Which some people were, yeah.
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