[totetsu]

I was thinking about the glitch aesthetic recently. So much of it now is focused on something like the first image, that arises from encoding errors in image or video compression. And before that it was magnetic tape or radio signal distortions. I was thinking that the glitch aesthetic is bound to move (already be moving) towards the kinds of images that arise from generative models. In the now shutdown dalle beta tester discord there was great discussion of glitch tokens and the weird images that came out. I think what's exciting is surrealist glitches in the conceptual space of images. Rather than just graphical distortions, semantic distortions running ladders through images.

[crucialfelix]

The GAN images from a few years back had lots of compelling weird glitches. I've been using them as image sources in Midjourney to bring back some of the alien unknown.

[qingcharles]

Can you provide any examples?

[totetsu]

Perhaps they were talking about deepdream? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream