As banal AI images come to supersaturate our visual culture, we should look with more curiosity toward image-makers who explore the specific quirks of different models. Their experiments may not squarely look like art (nor like engineering, nor research), but it is precisely in this interstitial space where tinkering is likely to find the essence... See more

An art form that avoids becoming a cheap imitation of painting or photography, that emerges into something altogether new, will do so by leaning into what’s essential about AI.

But mass slop has nothing to do with art, just like photos to remember your parking space don’t implicate photographers, nor does a receipt degrade writing (and certainly has nothing to do with Proust). Next, they embody a conservative tendency in the history of art and technology to imagine sophisticated tools as compromising authorship. In... See more