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Giving people art they want will only ever—at best—satisfy them. It will never inspire them. That is what AI will never be built to understand.

Thomas Marrone@thomasthecat.bsky.social

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

1/1/26, 3:38 am42 reposts174 likes

Squidney

@squidney.bsky.social

1 Jan

what a beautiful and succinct way to put that damn

Craig Johnson

@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social

3 Feb

the take that always gets me here is: has an LLM made the next Hello Kitty? No, it regurgitates slop. If it could innovate, they'd be using it to make the next Pokémon. But that's simply not how culture works!