Friday, 16 August 2024

anti-mimesis (11. 771)

Via Meanwhile, we thoroughly enjoyed perusing this gallery of images curated by Jonathan Hoefler (previously here and here) of actual instances of images that would now be mistook—absent other context or familiarity—as telling AI-generated missteps.
These pictures uncannily prevision the now acquainted superfluidity, reduplication, skewed perspectives, a-historicity, attention-grabbing and portrait-studio aesthetic that’s a buggy feature of computer-made art. What do you think it means that this thinking is becoming our default reaction? A picture broadly does not seem worth a thousand words any longer.  Much more at the links above.



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 synchronoptica

one year ago: greenlighted (with synchronoptica)

seven years ago: Trump’s very fine people plus manipulative social media

eight years ago: the stave church of Goslar, early hominids and tolerance for smoke, safety and Helvetica Man plus assorted links worth revisiting

nine years ago: rent parties plus more links to enjoy

ten years ago: writers protest against the book market, the future of shopping plus the unfair labelling of weeds