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To make something alive with AI you have to work beside it and resist its pull towards the average; an average email is fine, average art is not.

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taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

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  1. Frank Chimero

    Designer and writer in New York

    An average email or line of code is fine. Average art isn’t. To make something alive with AI, we have to resist its pull towards average by working beside it, shaping what it gives, and listening for what’s missing.

    Where this was said

    ↗Beyond the Machinefrankchimero.com

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