Artists turn to AI collage workflows, outsourcing imagination to iteration

Creator snikolov shares an AI-assisted art workflow that replaces brushwork with low-degree-of-freedom collage operations—dragging, aligning and remixing images across iterations—arguing that composition becomes more like photography as creators "surf the manifold of iterative collage."

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