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

The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 20

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…

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