When I look at your photos, I look into many mirrors. I not only see a girl in a photo, however great the photo is, I also see you positioning yourself to capture it. I see the photographer is the girls father, and can feel the emotion and love between you. I see my own children when they were that age, swimming with their floaties on. I get to time travel back to their youth. AI can not generate all that understanding, and more no doubt.
I would probably not waste my time at an exhibit of AI generated art, precisely because there would be no human vibes in the work.
And this is the shared experience - we weren't in each other's lives at that point at all, yet here we are sharing memories still. Even if you had never said it, we still would have connected experiences.
This conversation and post has me aware of a kind of ether, of human consciousness, that connects each and every one of us with every human event ever, as if consciousness powers the whole world. Is AI conscious enough to power the world?
I think it is (will be), but it won't empower humanity, unless we design it to. It is functional - humanity is not.