Crystal balls are back in fashion, along with smoke, mirrors and
ectoplasm. Centennial recurrence perhaps.
Note the disclaimer of all practitioners who dabble in the dark arts;
this is for entertainment purposes only.
An artist friend recently wrote an essay [1] associating AI art with
"soft propaganda for the ideology of prediction". An interesting
phrase I thought. Is prediction an ideology? Is blind faith in "AI"
ushering in secular denominations of crystal botherers?
It's a feature of the interregnum, similar to that of the 1920's
perhaps, that we grow ever more desperate to peer around the corner of
time, and so ever more credulous of techo-spiritualists, mechanical
mediums and silicon psychics.
Note the disclaimer of all practitioners who dabble in the dark arts; this is for entertainment purposes only.
An artist friend recently wrote an essay [1] associating AI art with "soft propaganda for the ideology of prediction". An interesting phrase I thought. Is prediction an ideology? Is blind faith in "AI" ushering in secular denominations of crystal botherers?
It's a feature of the interregnum, similar to that of the 1920's perhaps, that we grow ever more desperate to peer around the corner of time, and so ever more credulous of techo-spiritualists, mechanical mediums and silicon psychics.
[1] https://hyperallergic.com/772848/ai-art-is-soft-propaganda-f...