For many, the biased output of generative AI is a problem. But it’s a problem that reveals the structure of society and culture. The responses that a generative AI model gives us can reveal the unconsciousness of humanity, society, and the archives—and sometimes, what’s in our collective data unconsciousness is horrible! It reveals the traumas that... See more

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

Frank Chimero with the essay version of a talk he gave at Kinference.

I’m trying to figure out how to use generative AI as a designer without feeling like shit. I am fascinated with what it can do, impressed and repulsed by what it makes, and distrustful of its owners. I am deeply ambivalent about it all. The believers demand devotion, the critics... See more