Tyler Alterman: the conditions for an AI art revolution are set, talent is the blocker
sebpaquet · x · 2026-10-26
Tyler Alterman argues an artistic revolution is imminent, with three conditions in place: generative AI as a new medium, exhaustion with postmodern/woke orthodoxy, and a crisis of meaning. The bottleneck is talent — genAI is mostly used as a "slop canon," while tasteful people police even using it as a research tool; at a New Museum Art and Technology panel, saying "AI" was nearly a thoughtcrime. A good time to be a nonconformist artist.
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