samanbbI told ChatGPT to describe a painting I really like by Elmer Bischoff, then used that as a prompt.
Jeff Lee@samanbb Kincade, art station, ultra hi-res, 4k, ass
@jeffomatic yes my suspicion is that all the big image generator models are fine-tuned on Thomas Kinkade.
@samanbb A malevolent, slutty Kincadeism is the soul of the new AI machine:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images
Hito Steyerl, Mean Images, NLR 140/141, March–June 2023
An artist considers a new form of machinic representation: the statistical rendering of large datasets, indexed to the probable rather than the real of photography; to the uncanny composite rather than the abstraction of the graph.