Like CGI, this is another case of identifying when it’s used badly but not noticing when it’s used well. Criterion, for example, uses every single one of these

Like CGI, this is another case of identifying when it’s used badly but not noticing when it’s used well. Criterion, for example, uses every single one of these AI techniques to do their restorations. They just do it well. >“You see this mindset at work whenever an AI fetishist posts a stable diffusion image of a woman with 13 fingers, 40 incisors and comically huge breasts. There’s an entire portion of the population that takes overt pleasure in the over-smoothed, perverts that prefer all media to be fast, high frame rate, and scrubbed squeaky clean.” Why does the author conflate imperfection with perfection here? AI is equally capable of mimicking perfection and imperfection. Thats one of the reasons why it’s so exciting. There are plenty of people that use AI to generate organic imagery and noise and I wager that more rough, textured imagery is about to get in vogue again, and the reason will be because AI has made it easier to achieve. Just take a look at Poor Things. The imagery is so ornate and full of rough texture elements. I don’t know exactly how they made it but I’d hazard a guess that AI was either involved or that they were inspired by AI art like Refik Anadol and/or the generative art movement coming out of the NFT space right now.