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calimary

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5. I'm using this!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 03:46 PM

Thursday

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/may/28/ai-art-is-boring-soulless-theft-visual-artist

Opinion
AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red
Jess Harwood
I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existence
Wed 27 May 2026 22.37 EDT

That’ll make a FANTASTIC “Quote of the Week” for my Indivisible group’s weekly message to activists!

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Guardian op-ed: Someone suggested AI "visual art" should be called "Computer Rendered Artificial Pictures" (CRAP). [View all] highplainsdem Thursday OP

or CRAP ananda Thursday #1

CRAP it is! City Lights Thursday #2

CRAP, no finer word for it. Fla Dem Thursday #3

Love it! Auggie Thursday #4

I'm using this! calimary Thursday #5

CRAP is Crap, only way to say it. Ford_Prefect Thursday #6

A most fitting acronym! 3catwoman3 Thursday #7

I wish I knew who first came up with that name and acronym for AI slop. I'd never run across it till highplainsdem Thursday #10

Confusingly similar to Canadian rap, known as C-rap. nt eppur_se_muova Thursday #8

Chinese rap is also called C-rap. But those aren't pronounced as a 1-syllable word. They're not highplainsdem Thursday #9

They're pronounced that way if you want. nt :) eppur_se_muova Friday #11