The issue between slop and aura is duration. Slop is organized around the principle of immediacy. It makes money fast. But over time, its earning potential declines. Objects with aura operate the opposite way. Their value builds with time. Aura is an investment.

I believe artists can use generative AI tools to create art. I call these creations visuals. But there is still a creative act, a human intervention, that separates a work of art from all the other slop that was birthed beside it: the artists choice, his ability to say this an not that, his ability to frame his choice for an audience.

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