Good news, everyone! Science has finally, finally delivered us something it’s been long promising: the much-anticipated portal to hell, teeming with summonable demons.
It’s about goddamned time!
This is literally the reason for Marshall McLuhan’s beef with Northrop Frye. That later. First, here’s the deal.
These A.I. art generator thingies are trained on millions upon millions of images. Also, they can detect features of those images, including objects within them describable by human language. Roughly speaking, they can “read” what’s “in” a picture, and then reverse the process to generate images based on whatever prompts we “write.”
We can take the whole sum of millions and millions of images—photographs and artworks and whatever else—that these things have synthesized into coherency as some kind of unprecedented summation or unity of culture. Clearly there will be over-representation of lots of things—you know, …
