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I bought 2 paintings. Went to pick them up later and we talked more about generative art (of which I created a lot of in the early 2000s: processing!) and reactive music. He shared a bit of the story behind the work, getting excited to share some of his history. I felt enriched by this connection.

But he also had a lot of very fuzzy understanding of how LLMs work and we talked a bit on that (no, they aren't autonomously deciding to hack the world, etc.). It's making me aware that it's irresponsible to try to yell at people for using AI. It's happening, and w/the most expressive and creative.

But it's interesting to me how unfazed these artists are by it. To artists it IS simply a tool. To programmers and computer graphics producers, it's more of the entire production line. If you are fully tokenized, you are absolutely comprised and should probably start making art in earnest today.

I am puzzled. How are fine artists using generative tools? What does mj have to do with it?

> How..? as far as I've seen: exploration, seeing what happens with feeding image models their work, creating 3D imagery to support their sculpture work, etc. some going to far as to use generative art for flyers, which I personally find offputting. > What...? Midjourney. Wasn't the artist.