Complex x86 software on ARM is easily the most exciting part of this announcement.

Inside-out was the right answer ever since SulonQ, nine years ago.

You haven’t explained shit to me yet!

You don’t know what explaining shit would look like!

Ah, so you just spit words into the void and mock anyone who tries engaging with them.

Troll.

God forbid anyone act like you believe the things you say, in a logical manner that can be interrogated or defended. You, the protagonist of reality, have spoken. End of story, period, other cliches meaning la la la not listening.

I don’t think you have an argument. You’ve got a conclusion, yes, but when asked to even reiterate how you got there, all you have is performative sneering.

YOU misread MY argument, and now - being asked to please explain what you’re posturing about - you’re posturing harder.

Do you care about this topic or are you just trolling?

What the fuck are you saying, if not that?

If you can’t be corrected when you misread someone else’s argument you’re just saying words recreationally.

No.

Your argument is, ‘it can’t be art - a child can do it.’

Can children make art? Like, the way you understand art gets made. If a kid picking up Stable Diffusion in a week proves it’s never art, what is the impact of a child who paints real good after very little practice?

If I paint a landscape by hand, and generate one flower, does it stop being art?

The craft of Koyaanisqatsi was editing. People have recreated it using stock footage, as a complicated joke, and frankly the message still works. The whole original movie is an arrangement of uncoordinated b-roll. There are no actors. There is no dialog. Any individual part is almost meaningless, but the gestalt is an award-winning cultural touchstone.

That was not the question.

Hey, quit damming Long Island Sound!

And a talented child artist would have what impact on your argument here?

A ten year old child can do that with no foreknowledge whatsoever.

Yes, that’s the idea.

Anyone can now transmit ideas through your eyeballs, and that’s awesome.

They could also put in effort, and use the tool to finish a sketch they drew, or combine a render and a photograph, or simply rearrange and overwrite generated parts until it looks like what they imagined. How much labor can go into a text that communicates an idea, and still not be art?

At what point does a definition exclude Koyaanisqatsi?

Why do artists think this is a flex?

Congratulations, you did an art. Cartoons were created exclusively by humans until recently. There’s millennia of optimization for what’s easy for humans to draw, and what’s easy for humans to understand. If you are an illustrator by training or trade, of course you can out-cartoon the robot.

Now draw a cat that’s photorealistic.

You can, of course. Hyperrealist art exists. It’s hilariously difficult. But this tech allows any idiot to render any thing in any style, including high verisimilitude. When people use the word “accessible” (and they aren’t simply douchebags shuffling cards) they mean getting results like they spent ten thousand hours in Photoshop, in about a minute.

Key word, like. It always fumbles little details. But those details can be a smudge of grey when you ask for a blank white square, or they can be asymmetry in the thousands of gilded flowers on a fluted column, when you asked for a palatial dining hall. Both images take a minute.

I can code better than this tech. But most people can’t. They could, if trained, but they’re not trained, so they presently cannot. I cannot write or play music better than this tech. Others can, because they’re sentient adults with abundant practice. But now anyone can get halfway there, without any practice.

Winning a drawing contest against people who cannot draw is not impressive. And I wonder how many artists silently tried it and lost anyway, because some geek pulled a sprawling Renaissance mural out of thin air. It’s a cute cat. But if it’s going up against some Wimmelbild that’s packed to the gills with silly details and looks like a skull from across the room - good luck.

You could draw that skull thing better. But you couldn’t do it in an afternoon.

“What are you, the coping mechanism police?”

What, like the spikes on the outside line up, and you can peel them top to bottom?

Milo Manara, I assume.

Ha! Court.

The haters are so mad you got the robot to do some of the things it’s for. Anything beyond ‘I click the button and it draws a pretty lady! I’m a artist!’ really fucks with their absolutism. That’s a threat to ingroup solidarity for the ones who’ve made opposition part of their identity.

The industry finally embraces procedural textures, in the dumbest way possible.

Dreamcast: the first AI console.

It really was ahead on everything!