Machina Lucida: Reflections on Artificial Images by Lucas Gelfond
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Machina Lucida: Reflections on Artificial Images by Lucas Gelfond
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
A New Medium
August 2025
The more I meet people who've gone deep into generating AI media, the more I realize we're all reaching the same conclusion: this is a new medium. Not an evolution of something else. Something entirely new, the way photography and film were new.
To understand any medium, you need to look beyond its surface to its core. Some... See more
August 2025
The more I meet people who've gone deep into generating AI media, the more I realize we're all reaching the same conclusion: this is a new medium. Not an evolution of something else. Something entirely new, the way photography and film were new.
To understand any medium, you need to look beyond its surface to its core. Some... See more
Cristóbal Valenzuela
I share this sentiment (from Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of RunwayML), on AI and creativity:
... See moreThe most significant gap in AI research and art does not lie within the models themselves but rather in the approach to art. I have noticed a tendency to oversimplify the creative act. In a research setting, the goal is to control and measure variables,