Technology has unleashed a wave of images that are too weird to be legitimate, but real enough to stir feelings. Are we seeing a new age of surrealism?
A collection of AI-generated images, also known as "slop," as seen on Facebook. he stuff of Salvador Dali’s wildest dreams is no match for Facebook these days: Amputee kittens using crutches. Strawberries in the shape of lifelike frogs. Bosomy conjoined twins, structurally impossible sand sculptures, snakes swallowing fully-grown lions, airplanes with human hands. An underwater Jesus covered in shrimp.
Maybe these images — designed to attract attention to scam pages or click-baity sites full of ads — are a sign ofWe’re going to talk about why they look the way they do: flat, mawkish, uncanny. There’s a good reason one of the AI image generation programs is named DALL-E . Everything feels surreal these days.
He means conservative with a lowercase “c,” though the AI slop is usually politically conservative, too: Schoolcraft’s Facebook group is full of examples of troop-saluting, anti-LGBTQ+, pro-Trump schlock. A recent example: an elderly man in an American flag shirt and MAGA-esque red hat, reading the Bible to a dozen attentive drag queens.
prescribing the subject matter, she will also specify a film and camera as part of the prompt. “For example, Kodak Portra 800,” Kostanda says.What pushes an AI-generated image into the realm of art, she says, is whether it conveys a message, and whether it “catches the soul.” — “is of a new kind, one that may only be wholly grasped in future centuries,” Meyl writes in his paper.Dreamy, strange, thought provoking surrealism “which once seemed exclusive to the geniuses of their generation is now accessible through AI,” he says. But if those qualities become more associated with anonymous scammers on phishing pages than artistic geniuses in galleries, it may give us surrealism fatigue. Writes Meyl: “We will expect ‘unexpected’ and lose wow-effect of AI art.
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