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I have watched death as it happens, and I have watched birth. What I learned is that neither are discrete events. They are both processes, things that unfold. Birth is a series of awakenings, and death is a series of sleepenings. My son will take years to be born, and my father took six months to die. Some people spend decades dying.
In fact, the dental-office “badness” of so much of the A.I. art is precisely why I don’t dispute Alexander’s assertion that people preferred it. Like any LLM output, A.I.-generated images are designed to please, not to provoke. [I’ve argued before that these images are, by their nature, almost unavoidably kitsch](https://maxread.substack.com/p/what-ai-art-spiral-images-tell-us)--comforting, straightforward, accessible, flattering. And people love kitsch!
People Prefer A.I. Art Because People Prefer Bad Art
Max Read
Regarding the CD Baby email, Sivers says this: ‘*When you’re thinking of how to make your business bigger, it’s tempting to try to think all the big thoughts and come up with world-changing massive-action plans. But please know that it’s often the tiny details that really thrill people enough to make them tell all their friends about you.***’**
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