As a matter of fact, your reading experience of this short essay will end…when you encounter the paywall. I’m still sharing it, because I found the take more interesting than the actual essay. I goes like this: Generative artificial intelligence makes it possible to break the limits of any finite creation, thus creating a world without endings. Generate what’s beyond the frame of the Mona Lisa, generate what comes after the finale of Succession. The author describes this fascination as «a worldview that looks upon restraint with confusion and sees self-imposed limitations as weakness […] a mindset that cannot accept finality or limitations—which is to say that it cannot accept art itself.»

From Weekly Filet #451, in July 2023.