Emily Keegin

And I've seen I mean, there's there are photographers who have been working with AI recently who are making incredible things.

When AI works as an art practice, it is hyper conscious of itself as a it's speaking to AI and talking about the medium in the processes.

Yeah, I guess I would say that if I'm taking a funny video of myself via AI and I turn myself into a cat and I send it to you, that's not slob.

I want that.

I would love that.

Don't you want it?

Yeah.

But you would enjoy this.

I mean, it's like it's there's not a big jump between, you know, the filters that we have on our phones already and putting it through the tool of AI.

I think when we talk about slop, what we're talking about is that it's not well done.

Well, AI isn't creating art.

The person who's prompting AI is creating the art.

They are making a choice to turn on their computer and type in some words and those words produce something.

It's the same process for the reason you pick up a pencil and draw or the reason you decide to click the shutter.

I mean, the person making the prompt is the artist in that conversation.

They're making the choice to start that art process.

It's a tool.

Well, I think it's changing.

The aesthetic that you just described is a very slick kind of plastic feeling to skin that we get.

I feel like recently what I've been seeing with AI is trying even harder to look like old photography with lots of grain, lots of pixelation.