I Hate AI Art/I Miss AI Art

on eerieness versus creepiness

Try to forget, for a second, all the external factors. The environmental degradation, the rampant student cheating, the copyright issues, the political and interpersonal bleakness of the whole corporate ecosystem. Try to forget, too, what the images look like now, their grotesque mawkishness.

When we caught our first glimpses of “generative AI,” it was i…