AI images aren’t images at all: they’re hypothetical images, predictions based on patterns. But the patterns it draws from are disconnected — dis-integrated — in more ways than one. In this piece I look at AI art as the aestheticization of Big Data’s politics. #criticalai#artcriticism

The Hypothetical Image

The Aestheticization of Algorithmic Ideologies

Really thoughtful article been sharing it around my creatives and other activist circles. John Lopez the screenwriter got me to read it.

If you read french, you may be interested in that one… www.editions-allia.com/fr/livre/820...

This text was originally part of the essay on Big Data as the true lineage of generative AI, they’re now standalone companion pieces. You can read the other one here:

Underutilized.

Generative AI is just Big Data 2.0.

Great article