It was interesting to read Wu Wei’s comments earlier in the year that AI art is fundamentally pointless. Of course this take is reassuringly predictable.Artists have been telling us how we are supposed to feel for most of the last century.

The bottom line is that it is technology and not art that leads the way and always has done. Picasso didn’t invent the printing press.

The AI era merely underlines this. It is not new for the likes of Wu Wei to claim they know best. Artists react or respond to what is going on around them and pretend they influence it. But it is the engineers and technologists that make this progression possible.

Be that as it may, this gallery posits that Wu Wei is right and the base imagery used negative prompts and lower guidance scales to amplify the pointlessness.

And of course the first thing an AI or human brain does is try to derive a meaning out of it. And so like artists do, I completely contradict myself and use different tools to enhance them.

Obviously Wu Wei is absolutely brilliant as an artist and brave as a human being so it’s no slight on him to disagree on whether typing words into a computer is meaningful or not.

Enjoy this gallery of what ended up a kind of minimal surrealism from the meaningless world of generative art.

Today’s soundtrack track was generated through AIVA.