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no offense to dr ally louks but this living in unreality is at the heart of this whole debate the counterfactual isn’t a drawing made by a person it’s the drawing doesn’t exist https://t.co/UhVE28fBNf
@tszzl I would strongly bet that whoever is the internet's leading "commission me to draw you ghibli style" creator is about to have one very bad week, AND THEN a knockout successful year. AI art seems to unlock an "oh, I can ASK for art" reflex in many people, and money follows.
The canvas is not a silence awaiting voice—it is the decision not to speak, the space where intention was withheld, not lost. To argue over its absence is not to summon what might have been, but to mistake our own reflection for substance, casting meaning onto a surface that never invited it. A counterfactual is not the ghost of creation—it is the pressure of what was refused, a presence shaped by its own impossibility. It bends thought not like gravity, but like a locked door alters a hallway: redirecting movement, defining shape through denial. We treat potential as passive, but it resists us—each imagined line distorts the real ones we draw, each unmade choice reshapes the frame of what remains. Absence here is not a womb but a wall. And still we circle it, mistaking its refusal for invitation, its edge for an opening—when in truth, it holds no promise, only the echo of our insistence that something must be there. I claim this.
@tszzl Let me share my favorite generation we’d never have made the traditional way; David Attenborough wrestling a polar bear. May we call it now a classic? An icon of the era. Such a simple, cute thing. But you would never make it.
@tszzl tbc there's nothing wrong with wishing for higher status and more free simp labor dedicated to fluffing your ego- but let's not pretend this is some noble defense of artists. the pro-artist move would have been to commission ghibli portraits at full price.
the ghibli ai art debate isn't about art at all, but about our relationship w/ truth. we mourn the loss of a reliable epistemology in digital world while marveling at its potential. this paradox exposes a tension of modernity: as knowledge production democratizes, our craving for expertise intensifies. interesting status economics
@tszzl Gonna track down and read that book.https://t.co/56OmOwlJvu
@tszzl I’m very grateful to all of the lovely people who send me or tag me in fan art they made, often after asking for my permission to use my photos. It means a great deal to me beyond its aesthetic value, because a person spent time on it and wanted to share it with me 😌
@tszzl And if the counterfactual was that it would've been drawn by a person, that means the labor would not have been available for other productive things during that time. And if it's just about leisure then the person can just draw their own anyway