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+[1]Blog [2]About [3]Moonbound [4]Shop
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+This is a post from [5]Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can [6]visit the
+blog’s homepage, or [7]learn more about me.
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+[8]Art-directing AI
+
+March 27, 2025
+
+I want to draw your eye to the images in [9]this recent post from Amelia
+Wattenberger, which seem to me an example of someone trying hard to art-direct
+AI image generation in a recognizably editorial way.
+
+Clearly, Amelia was going for a particular look. There is a clear idea at work
+here, exactly the kind you’d specify to an artist (or pitch to an art
+director). However, the fundamental fuzziness of the AI approach is apparent;
+while the images do all have the same “texture”, they don’t seem to have come
+from the same source, or indeed to have been made by the same “person”.
+
+Anyone who has worked with AI tools will recognize the feeling of “close
+enough”-ness. If you squint, you can see all the images Amelia rejected — a
+pile of crumpled-up drawings just beyond the frame of the browser. The images
+published with the post were, for sure, the best options, even if together they
+don’t quite form a coherent package.
+
+Anyway, it’s interesting and useful to encounter this strategy for illustration
+“fully expressed”, rather than just imagined. I don’t think it succeeds, but/
+and I’m glad to have the example to consider.
+
+[10]To the blog home page
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+I'm [11]Robin Sloan, a fiction writer. The main thing to do here is sign up for
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+Don’t miss [14]the colophon. Hony soyt qui mal pence
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+References:
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+[1] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/
+[2] https://www.robinsloan.com/about/
+[3] https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/
+[4] https://www.robinsloan.com/shop/
+[5] https://www.robinsloan.com/
+[6] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/
+[7] https://www.robinsloan.com/about/
+[8] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/art-directing-ai/
+[9] https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me
+[10] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/
+[11] https://www.robinsloan.com/about?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me
+[14] https://www.robinsloan.com/colophon/