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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
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blog’s homepage, or [7]learn more about me.
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[8]Art-directing AI
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March 27, 2025
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I want to draw your eye to the images in [9]this recent post from Amelia
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Wattenberger, which seem to me an example of someone trying hard to art-direct
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AI image generation in a recognizably editorial way.
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Clearly, Amelia was going for a particular look. There is a clear idea at work
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here, exactly the kind you’d specify to an artist (or pitch to an art
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director). However, the fundamental fuzziness of the AI approach is apparent;
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while the images do all have the same “texture”, they don’t seem to have come
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from the same source, or indeed to have been made by the same “person”.
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Anyone who has worked with AI tools will recognize the feeling of “close
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enough”-ness. If you squint, you can see all the images Amelia rejected — a
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pile of crumpled-up drawings just beyond the frame of the browser. The images
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published with the post were, for sure, the best options, even if together they
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don’t quite form a coherent package.
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Anyway, it’s interesting and useful to encounter this strategy for illustration
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“fully expressed”, rather than just imagined. I don’t think it succeeds, but/
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and I’m glad to have the example to consider.
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[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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my newsletter:
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[12][ ] [13][Subscribe]
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This website doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading.
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It aspires to the speed and privacy of the printed page.
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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/
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[2] https://www.robinsloan.com/about/
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[3] https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/
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[4] https://www.robinsloan.com/shop/
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[5] https://www.robinsloan.com/
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[6] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/
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[7] https://www.robinsloan.com/about/
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[8] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/art-directing-ai/
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[9] https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me
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[10] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/
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[11] https://www.robinsloan.com/about?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me
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[14] https://www.robinsloan.com/colophon/
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