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Inter- art design tech research @ Stanford digital archive www.alanlundgard.com 📍NYC
Why would a culture obsessed with authenticity view endless synthetic media as anything more than a fad curiosity
Using AI to create visual artifacts indistinguishable from traditional media aesthetics really misses its potential. I don’t want to see more of the same, more quickly. I want to see things I’ve never seen before
Technically impressive yes but I know of very few young people who think AI is “cool” in the rock n’ roll sense which seems bad for a new tech attempting to intervene in every aspect of culture
Most people can’t distinguish diamonds from cubic zirconia. Therefore real and fake diamonds should be valued equally. Do I understand this correctly?
Microblogging sites should have a “notifications silenced” status like iMessage so people know you won’t be replying quickly
One thing the PalmPilot got right was the stylus. These finger swipe touch UIs are killing my hands
People on social media work themselves into rigid anti-AI (or pro-AI) positions, making it hard to publicly admit to any benefits (or harms) I don’t think this matches peoples’ actual AI use which is somewhere between total refusal and enthusiastic adoption
Not anti AI art but I will say I can easily enter a 4+ hour flow state while painting that would never happen working with AI tools The roulette aspect of prompting (which is part of its gambling-like appeal) frustrates each gesture from building toward a cohesive whole
I like this 1980s Kim Gordon quote to partly explain why AI wont supplant human art: “People pay to see others believe in themselves” Already seeing increased cultural cachet of handmade over automatic. An expression of “faith in ourselves,” as Miyazaki put it after the AI demo
AI will make everyone a filmmaker the same way VHS did in the 80s, digital camcorders in the 00s, iPhones in the 10s
Every painter can be an ai artist but not every ai artist can be a painter
There’s always a sprinkle of dust in my studio I have to wrap my paintings in Saran
Again, go look at early CGI ads and tell me they look better than today’s slop
𝒜ℒ@alanlundgard.bsky.social · 2y agoAfraid to say I think the AI-generated Coca-Cola ads look just as good as - maybe better than - their 90s–2000s CGI polar bear ads. Which is to say good enough for the average cola beverage consumer.
