Yeah, all this makes sense. > Also, I have a bit of a disdain for the current state of generative art. The people hyping up the technology want to use it to ki

Yeah, all this makes sense. > Also, I have a bit of a disdain for the current state of generative art. The people hyping up the technology want to use it to kill and eat artists, by replacing them with AI that can bury them in post-scarcity. Yuuuuuup. Which makes me sad to say, because I had a big generative art phase when I was younger and loved seeing what I could do with hex editors and circuit-bending. I don't want to tread into the minefield of evaluating others' artistic processes, but my taste is for art with apparent intent and intentionality. In an era where notions of artistry have been largely divorced from technique, and technique is increasingly democratized anyway, I want to believe there is still some room for distinction between a neat image and a piece of art. Many people see that as elitist gatekeeping or something, but if everything is valuable, nothing is valuable, and I think value is important.