#but yeah this easily couldve been the worlds coolest performance/interactive art

[vampirehowl]

the thing for me abt "artificial intelligence" visual art is like. it EASILY couldve been handled like actual art. like it EASILY couldve been someone like presenting the code of their like qualitative information statistics reader as an interactive art piece drawn from public domain art with the creator of the code being the "artist" but those who interact and those whose public domain art is used (or even if someones non-public domain art was willingly contributed) all also being considered contributing "artists" -- and it wouldve sparked like an actual interesting conversation about what is art and how art and access is valued !!! it couldve been so sick!!! for a literal zero amount of change in effort for those involved it could have been such an interesting interaction of collective creativity made willingly with like each result listing what sources it drew from when it gave u its final image and i mean ZERO change in effort

but instead it was just a race to see who could press the devaluation of creativity button the fastest while having the worst possible impact on the climate for least amount of effort! like it became the quickest way to publicly admit that youre lame as hell and prioritize ease over actual real life anything !!! it could have been amazing but it instead became the most embarrassing thing one could be associated with!!!!