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Not every art movement in history has been motivated by awe. There’s a toilet in a gallery somewhere. Important to remember that these tools are extensions of h
by xigency 3y ago
Not every art movement in history has been motivated by awe. There’s a toilet in a gallery somewhere. Important to remember that these tools are extensions of humans and their expressions through time, and generative AI is still subject to humans’ tastes: from the beginning of the prompt to the choice of sharing or deleting the result.
“If everything is extraordinary then everything becomes ordinary.”
The ordinary is quite awesome as well.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoA recent example I noticed: Nikon's Small World microphotography contest: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrogra... We've become so accustomed to amazing things, some real, some synthetic, and every mixture in between, that these just seem less than "awful", to use the original sense of the word, to me. Even though they're probably objectively (heh) among the best micrographs ever taken.
- itronitron 3y agoThose images are great, but they are also highly processed and I wouldn't be surprised if we've all learned to ignore hyper-saturated images as stock imagery for advertising campaigns.
- Baeocystin 3y agoI find them amazing, but. I also have significant experience in macro photography, and knowing just how difficult it is to get a focus stack properly processed, etc plays in to my appreciation of the imagery. I can also see how these wouldn't look any different than any other random saturated oddity that is so pervasive on the tubes. I say this without judgement one way or another.
- __loam 3y agoThey're not an extension of humans so much as their an exploitation of humans