Joe Gerber

Unlike fan fiction, there's no canon to rebel against, just infinite, jazz-like variations on a theme. Each co-created artefact is unique as a snowflake, yet they all share that same underlying structure, the artistic kernel that makes them recognisably part of the same creative constellation.

Practically, such a kernel could be composed of:

• Model specification : Foundation model/version being used


• Latent vectors/coordinates : The specific points in latent space being claimed


• Sampling parameters : Temperature, guidance scale, etc., that affect generation


• System prompt : Any prompts or other conditioning context

The art is in the constraints of the model.

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.

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a medium cannot succeed by imitating existing mediums; it must invent its own language, evolve its own genres, discover the kind of stories that only it can tell.

Just as manipulating actuality is the soul of cinema, playing with subjectivity is the soul of AI as an artistic medium.