ai aesthetics

I think a lot of talk about AI aesthetics tends to center around slop, and to me a lot of slop discourse is just a failure of imagination, or just a misunderstanding of what this kind of technology or force enables, which is this ability to explore latent spaces.

Peter Bauman, AI Psychosis Summit: Macy Gettles, quasimatt

I mean, looking back at Ugly Bitches, which came out in January of 2023, which is not that long ago, the GAN aesthetics look super vintage now in terms of AI aesthetics.

Maya Man, Maya Man & Ann Hirsch: Ironic Sincerity