Aesthetics of Fascism and AI

Oh man, this is the stuff:

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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No matter how deeply avant-garde art has engaged in shock and putative nihilism, no artist, to my knowledge, has ever made art with the sole aim of harming the already vulnerable. Even the most depraved Power Electronics acts or the most shocking performances of the Viennese Actionists had something more to them than simply causing suffering for its own sake. Andy Warhol’s mass-produced art did not create enjoyment by enabling its viewers to imagine their class enemies being made unemployed. Those are the goals of AI art, and that is why it resonates with the right.

This perfectly encapsulates a whole bunch of stuff I’ve been trying ot figure out how to articulate. Namely: it’s not a coincidence that the AI tech execs all moved to the right; the one is an inextricable part of the other.