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1 [1]Blog [2]About [3]Moonbound [4]Shop 2 3 This is a post from [5]Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can [6]visit the 4 blog’s homepage, or [7]learn more about me. 5 6 [8]Art-directing AI 7 8 March 27, 2025 9 10 I want to draw your eye to the images in [9]this recent post from Amelia 11 Wattenberger, which seem to me an example of someone trying hard to art-direct 12 AI image generation in a recognizably editorial way. 13 14 Clearly, Amelia was going for a particular look. There is a clear idea at work 15 here, exactly the kind you’d specify to an artist (or pitch to an art 16 director). However, the fundamental fuzziness of the AI approach is apparent; 17 while the images do all have the same “texture”, they don’t seem to have come 18 from the same source, or indeed to have been made by the same “person”. 19 20 Anyone who has worked with AI tools will recognize the feeling of “close 21 enough”-ness. If you squint, you can see all the images Amelia rejected — a 22 pile of crumpled-up drawings just beyond the frame of the browser. The images 23 published with the post were, for sure, the best options, even if together they 24 don’t quite form a coherent package. 25 26 Anyway, it’s interesting and useful to encounter this strategy for illustration 27 “fully expressed”, rather than just imagined. I don’t think it succeeds, but/ 28 and I’m glad to have the example to consider. 29 30 [10]To the blog home page 31 32 I'm [11]Robin Sloan, a fiction writer. The main thing to do here is sign up for 33 my newsletter: 34 35 [12][ ] [13][Subscribe] 36 This website doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading. 37 It aspires to the speed and privacy of the printed page. 38 39 Don’t miss [14]the colophon. Hony soyt qui mal pence 40 41 42 References: 43 44 [1] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/ 45 [2] https://www.robinsloan.com/about/ 46 [3] https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/ 47 [4] https://www.robinsloan.com/shop/ 48 [5] https://www.robinsloan.com/ 49 [6] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/ 50 [7] https://www.robinsloan.com/about/ 51 [8] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/art-directing-ai/ 52 [9] https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me 53 [10] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/ 54 [11] https://www.robinsloan.com/about?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me 55 [14] https://www.robinsloan.com/colophon/