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Lonely Surfaces: On AI-generated Images - by L. M. Sacasas

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Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. Many of you are receiving your first installment after finding your way here from my conversation with Sean Illing about attention. Welcome aboard. I was grateful for the invitation, and I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation. You can listen to it here or here. While you’re there, check out the recent interviews with Dr. Gabor Maté and Ian Bogost. In this installment, I offer some thoughts on AI generated images … finally. I think it was about a month ago that I first mentioned I was working on this post. It took awhile to come together. As per usual, no hot takes contained within. This will be me thinking about what we’re looking at when we’re looking at AI-generated images and how this looking trains our imagination. Or something like that. Upgrade to paid This past summer, the image above, titled “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” took first prize at the Colorado State Fair. It was created by Jason Allen with Midjou

Lonely Surfaces: On AI-generated Images The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 20 L. M. Sacasas Dec 10, 2022 140 15 15 Share Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. Many of you are receiving your first installment after finding your way here from my conversation with Sean Illing about attention. Welcome aboard. I was grateful for the invitation, and I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation. You can listen to it here or here . While you’re there, check out the recent interviews with Dr. Gabor Maté and Ian Bogost. In this installment, I offer some thoughts on AI ge

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