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[โ€“] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think it's fascinating. I don't think it holds the same reverence as man-made art by any means, but I still find it impressive.

[โ€“] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

It's absolutely fascinating. I was really enjoying watching it evolve. That's tapered off a lot now.

But I also find it really off-putting when people use it for meaningless illustrations that just reek of laziness. Especially so when the images are supposed to represent something meaningful, but are full of errors and nonsense. This is particularly the case when the illustrations accompany academic texts. Fucking gross.

Probably if we lived in a society that didn't inventivise doing meaningless, environmentally destructive shit for profit, then I might be more into it now.