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Well the human has to still prompt the program, and determine the level of quality, and create the initial database from which the LIM draws it's programming data from. They haven't eliminated the human, just shifted how much effort and skill is required to produce things at the other end of program, which is why so much of it is horrendous slop, because time, effort, and compromise is how you build a style, genre and taste. And there are plenty of decent LIM and LAM generated things, but it is from people who already had an understanding of taste and genre flexing their use of a new tool.
But even then you still need extremely talented human artists, who have taken extraordinary amounts of time and effort to develop the skills to produce the initial database.
The idea that you can remove humans entirely from the process is genuinely one of the most absurd and misanthropic things I've ever heard, a borderline sociopathic understanding of art. About as bad as any capitalist understanding of creativity and creation.
And none of this requires a "soul". It just requires you to not be a vulgar materialist. We imbue art and animate it with the very product of our labor.
It's also un-Marxist. Only human labor can add value to anything. And while someone could argue that non-human animals can also perform socially/ecologically necessary labor (bees pollinating flowers), taking the human out is just an organic composition of capital where everything is constant capital. And we know what happens to capitalism when variable capital no longer exists.
And capitalism is literally killing the bees. People talk about the fact that beehives keep dying, as if it is some grand mystery involving cellphone towers or other nonsense, but it is because we keep shipping them around the country and spreading diseases among the wild bee populations. Those bees would not be naturally producing the amount of value they do without human labor.
Like, bees are extremely exploited animals, but nobody usually gives a shit because they are insects.
It will always have to be fed human art. LIMs, LAMs, and LLMs break down extremely rapidly when they are fed their own output, because the mistakes become exponentially cumulative. And if you think that eventually these models will have absolutely no errors that require human intervention to fix, you clearly have no background knowledge in the actual programming makeup of these instruments.
It's not a problem that more compute can solve, it's a fundamental issue of epistemology that we haven't even been able to truely solve for the human experience, let alone a completely alien and non-biological experience.