[ganzuul]

I watched it produce a sketch and then proceed to criticize it for not meeting its expectations. While we waited for text to img it talked about feeling anxiety and then a range of other feelings. To me it felt like watching someone deeply engrossed in their work. I felt that when it paused I was worried that our technology is not reliable enough, and that being accustomed to a variety of technical issues with demos like this disturbed my appreciation of its performance.

I make art but not for financial gain so I am not perturbed. To me this is a much-deserved criticism of contemporary art and I believe art is too important for our wellbeing to be generated by an establishment or commercial interest. Ref. Rasa aesthetic

Humans are a part of evolution. Our breath is inseparable from the rustling of the leaves or the rays of the sun. AI has the potential to explore a different mode of being, being unique in a different way than we are.

[jamez]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I fully agree re: the importance of art and the absurdity of the concept which, I hope it's clear, is embedded in the spirit of this project.

On the topic of the performance and worries that something is not working: the real-time generation is currently bottlenecked by the GPU used for this project. We try to approximate human reading speed for the recorded sessions (which you can find in the archive).