AI Art Is Weird, Sad, and Ugly. Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise: link to an article by NIcholas Liu in Jacobin.

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AI Art

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/ai-slop-art-aesthetics-technology-capital/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOk3gBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFzOXhhVktiQ0Nqd3o0MUxMc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkNsDGXXEPm7zvd8pgwbLuwf2zifdbLJM2pxLz0zsaXzUn54_qqrN41xHIyU_aem_yV3p2uqDyUewnMgHZjMBNA&brid=W8EQ5-wkCM3-lmiCQRUD5w

I suspect the article would be better if it avoided the Marxist theorising, which does not add much to the critique of AI.

But a pushback against AI is very necessary: necessary as part of a pushback against sterility. 

This becomes very obvious when travelling, and one encounters similarity in places which used to be quite different from each other,

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