post pictures your computer has generated ( algorithmic art )

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Read an interview the other day with someone claiming to be a "second-wave AI artist,". According to him, it refers to "those who emerged with the advent of programs such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion."

The interview itself is pretty dull and I don't see why he couldn't do his particular art without AI, but the suggestion we're already into the second-wave of this stuff gave me pause, just the thought of it moving that quickly.

STEPHAN VASEMENT: ENTER THE SECOND-WAVE OF GENERATIVE ART — MAGAZINE

GATA recently caught up with the artist to discuss the creative process, critics of AI, and the future development of this technology.

gatamagazine.com

I also think a lot about transcendence and our future—when the transformation of the human body reaches an entirely new level. Imagine California in 2045: an apocalyptic world inhabited by mutated humans, forming packs and attacking one another, a world of endless violence and orgies…A cat-woman torn apart by a gang of human dogs at a techno rave, her bizarre human kittens drowned in a barrel by zealots fighting for the purity of the human body...and so on.

At this point, that scenario feels all too realistic.

Not sure he's working with the usual definition of 'realistic' here...