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“This American Carnage”
Text: Donald J. Trump
Artists: Georgia O’ Keeffe, Roy Lichtenstein, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat
Prompt: John Lyon
AI: Stable Diffusion

So I had an idea that I would use the phrase from the former guy’s inaugural, “This American Carnage,” and see what the AI did with it using different American artists. I got some interesting results, but one of my prompts started creating these really crazy pieces. This is the least disturbing of the more interesting ones:

AI has the ability to create visually arresting images. Is it art? Maybe? It’s artlike. I think about my friend Carol. She does encaustics, and while the AI can generate an “encaustic” like file, there’s no physicality there. I can print these, and hang them on the wall, but there no physicality to them outside of that. Nothing to show that a human created it. Some intention, yes, in the prompt crafting the AI uses, and in the settings chosen. But no layers of paint. No brush strokes. No carving away of wax to leave behind something wholly…human.

“Millie Bobby brown as a Dungeons and dragons sorcerer, wearing sorcerer’s robes, holding glass staff”