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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 06:40:56 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   • The Duality of Xan

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   Maybe it's my inner Susan Sto Helit talking, but it does not make me nauseous or afraid; what it does is make me *angry*.

   Angry that some people consider it *art* at all.

   Angry that some people can disregard, consciously or not, horrifying faults that they would not forgive from a human artist.

   Angry too that someone thought that it was somehow acceptable to use actual art without permission where permission is *obviously* due.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 07:21:31 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • The Duality of Xan

     @XanIndigo Well, I would be uncomfortable if the images had been created by a human; but since I know that they're just the result of a computer program executing instructions, it does not strike me as uncanny, just faulty.

     Then again: I am a computer software professional, which may affect how I deal with computer-generated content.

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     The Duality of Xan (xanindigo@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 07:21:32 JST The Duality of Xan

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     @aaribaud Oh, I agree with all of these points, believe me. But my point here is that there seems to also be something actively uncomfortable about the images themselves.