In the age of AI, knowing aesthetic and rhetorical terms becomes a superpower
emollick · x · 2026-07-28
A reply in the thread argues that humanities knowledge is becoming a superpower in the age of AI: if you know the names of many aesthetic styles and rhetorical devices, you can ask for them directly.
The examples given include Vaporwave, Muqarnas, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau whiplash curves, Sfumato, Grisaille, Notan, Polysyndeton, and Zeugma. The point is that the bottleneck is often not generation, but knowing what to request.
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