Pop AI

As I was doing the mix for Disaster Movies it doesn't really sound like disaster movies--or a score for one. It's basically a pop song and doesn't have much "disaster" in it.

While looking for images for the video that fit with another version that I did (an ambient piece that uses the same song structure--more bluesy film-noir) I've been seeing some interesting photographs that have been generated by AI that are noir-ish. I think that probably would be a better idea than to do something that's more cliche like a "Blade Runner" look. 

These days it's almost a requirement that we generate imagery with AI. It's the idea that we all have to be on the bandwagon. Perhaps it's another aspect of loneliness; It makes us feel less lonely when we're rallying around a popular cultural idea. AI is one of those ideas now, so it doesn't really matter how content was made or who made it.

People seem to like the idea of anonymity. People have liked that idea since Banksy became popular around the advent of the internet in the 90s which facilitated anonymity or pseudonymity. It's this idea that we can have these alternate personas we can have different lives we can have an online life and we have our our regular life. So there's a shadowy aspect that allows us to create imagery and share it on social media under a different name and we don't have to know (or care to know) anybody's name. It's more alluring that there's nobody behind it at all.

AI has become the new pop art because it's pseudonymously democratic. It's something that anybody can do. Certainly, Andy Warhol would have liked it.

PopAI: Popeye over Roy, which look like Francis Bacons:

PS:

Interesting: The "Jeep" character in Popeye was kind of like an AI. 

11/16/2024:

I stumbled on the article Abstract Expressionism--The Greatest Facade. AI art is the ultimate in de-skilling and similar to Ab Ex in the sense that it is avoiding all precedent, and was actually more postmodern art than modern art.