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I love how you linked the way AI-generated art steals from artists to the concept of extractive beauty/beauty-as-colonialism from previous articles. I feel like many people don't understand that these AI are simply fed existing images en-masse in order to spit back out shoddy imitations of them. The AI can't exist without MASSIVE amounts…
I love how you linked the way AI-generated art steals from artists to the concept of extractive beauty/beauty-as-colonialism from previous articles. I feel like many people don't understand that these AI are simply fed existing images en-masse in order to spit back out shoddy imitations of them. The AI can't exist without MASSIVE amounts of human-made art, and many corporate beauty trends wouldn't exist without the unrecognized labor or people who go unpaid (usually women, often women of color). And then there's the beauty standards that are, as you said, just white people trying to mimic features of people of color. Interesting (and depressing) parallels!