There are two types of people making stuff: content creators and artists .

Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Artists are not.

• Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Creators are trying to get a good-enough cut, a performant-enough ad, or an

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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.

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