Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her “The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman”, written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called “F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)”, which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko’s interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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I had a deeply terrible realization after talking with the composer for my previous game today, which is that I now cannot be fully confident that anyone I commission to work on a game with me going forward isn’t using AI to at least partially generate something like music, for example.
But learning to compose music that sounds as good as I’d like myself would take many, many months, if not longer, which is why it was the only thing I commissioned last time…
I know a lot of people here are trying to make a case for “AI” as a tool, and there are some uses for it that I think are probably acceptable (though I despise it in general regardless as yet another source of grand misconception among humans, not understanding what it really is or how it works), but I do not want it to have any part in any art which I create.
I feel like everything is like that now. “Instead of using AI to help you write a shitty cover letter, why don’t you hire a social worker who will almost definitely use ai to write your cover letter, which will then get reviewed by another ai!” isn’t exactly giving me high hopes.
It’s like everything we enjoy and every interaction we have is first/second/third hand polluted. For me, it simulates the feeling of seeing garbage just laying around. Sometimes it’s a big pile of junk, sometimes it’s just a wadded up tissue, but it’s in all kinds of places that it wasn’t before.
Aside from some minor production fine tuning for something that I would already find over produced, I really really don’t see any utility at all in AI regarding music. I can see say, some degree of use in visual media to say, animate between key frames better automatically better than before. I don’t see the utility for anything like that in music aside from maybe a tool to keep different tracks in time better or tune correction, minor stuff being a bit easier.