Two years ago, OpenAI released DallE-2. For the first time, a bunch of enslaved compute cores could produce an image from fuzzy nothingness. Within a few months, technical papers released, and “diffusion,” as it’s called within machine-learning spheres, blossomed into an industry. This industry is a cancer. Year over year, it mutates into a…
My options are twofold: elegant or blocky. These two stylistic identities are worlds apart, yet both hold equal appeal in my eyes. The lock screen of my phone, for instance, is one of my favorite photographs headlined by the time in a classical font. It’s minimalist, but has a certain poise about it. On…