By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026So for many of us, the experience of AI "art" went from, "Wow, there's a person in the machine that's trying to tell me something," to "Wow, that is an impressive feat of software design, but it doesn't say anything to me." 21/ 1322 32
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026Maybe some of us think, "Huh, I could take some element of this, refine it with my own brushstrokes or words, and make something out of it." 22/ 1171 17
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026That's like thinking about turning a sunset into a painting: the sunset is *striking* and maybe *beautiful*, but it doesn't become *art* until *you* work at it, in order to make it *communicate* something: pluralistic.net/2025/03/25/c... 23/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Why I don’t like AI art (25 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1242 24
