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I have used a simple feedback loop to generate AI art: 1) the initial prompt 2) ask for criticism of the generated image 3) apply those changes and generate another image 4) repeat the criticism / fix cycle again

Isn't that somewhat introspective?

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Literally, no. Introspection is an internal self-driven process. And typically both the creating and criticisms draw from the general distribution of information, there’s still “nothing” to do the introspecting.

> Introspection is an internal self-driven process.

I don't think introspection is necessarily self-driven. If a psychologist tells me to examine my thoughts, and so I do, am I not introspecting?

You can replace psychologist with any form of living or non-living derived stimulus but it's only a trigger. Whether you actually engage with introspection, or just react, is still within your control and up to you to guide.

But it gets into the weeds of whether or not we're operating on a shared understanding of what introspection means.

I think it's the different between a psychologist saying "examine your thoughts", and the psychologist saying "examine your thoughts, and please reach x conclusion"

I think your argument would be stronger if you claimed introspection is only a feature of humans.

Sure, my point is not that you can’t wire up introspection, just that it’s not currently an extensive part of image generation. I expect that to change over time as better quality is demanded.

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