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here's my blog post about how people who use generative ai are deeply estranged from themselves and reality itself, their souls drifting rudderless in open water, asphyxiating www.joewintergreen.com/i-think-the-...

ceoln

@ceoln.bsky.social

Different people are different; this is probably a good description of some people? I use text-to-image tools because I love being surprised by weird images. I guess I don't consider myself "an artist" because I do that, but labels are labels. More thoughts: ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/r...

ceoln.wordpress.comRevisiting AI Art“Twins”, by David M. Chess, made with Midjourney, 2024 So. Various things have happened around the whole issue / field of “AI Art” and in particular images made with text-to…

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Joe Wintergreen

@joewintergreen.com

4 Jan 2025

You should stop it. There are much better ways to be surprised by weird images

ceoln

@ceoln.bsky.social

4 Jan 2025

Okay, like what? (I've clambered all over the Mandelbrot set, fwiw.)

Joe Wintergreen

@joewintergreen.com

4 Jan 2025

Art made by humans. There are many places to find it

ceoln

@ceoln.bsky.social

4 Jan 2025

Hey, I've heard of that! :P I look at that, too, but it's different. Maybe there's just a selfish "I'm the first person ever to see this cool point in the latent space!" thing going on. You're probably right. Not everything I like is good.