AI's arc: from incoherent dream-images to hallucinations richer than reality
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-10-03
Quoting a nostalgic post about early image generators—which produced scenes that felt intuitively familiar yet utterly unidentifiable, a now-forgotten art form—seanmcdonaldxyz offers a philosophical take: AI's long arc resembles watching someone be born, age, learn the world, then develop dementia—but instead of dying, it learns to make the hallucinations work, until those hallucinations contain more information about reality than the pre-phoenix entity could grok.
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