I most definitely agree the look and feel of a lot of this AI-generated imagery is surrealist. Many of the images are alternate realities that look normal at a glance, then get weirder the longer you stare.
But the human Surrealists and Dadaists were creating this type of art very intentionally as a statement about their experiences; and AI is generating it because, well, it doesn't actually understand (at any meaningful level) the shapes and lines it is emulating from its training data.
I'm not really convinced this AI imagery does appeal to most of us. Maybe it's just interesting because it's new, or cheap, or both? By the time the six-and-seven-finger problem is resolved we'll probably be sick of the whole aesthetic.
I most definitely agree the look and feel of a lot of this AI-generated imagery is surrealist. Many of the images are alternate realities that look normal at a glance, then get weirder the longer you stare.
But the human Surrealists and Dadaists were creating this type of art very intentionally as a statement about their experiences; and AI is generating it because, well, it doesn't actually understand (at any meaningful level) the shapes and lines it is emulating from its training data.
I'm not really convinced this AI imagery does appeal to most of us. Maybe it's just interesting because it's new, or cheap, or both? By the time the six-and-seven-finger problem is resolved we'll probably be sick of the whole aesthetic.