NEW ROWDY PAGE!

It’s a special day for you when another fresh Rowdy page comes out of the oven. Mmmm. Smell those hot pixels.

AI bad? Uh, yeah. I sure hope it is.

I know that I’m very likely just preaching to the choir with this, but I wanted to share this recent Drew Gooden video that summed up a lot of the same thoughts and feelings that I’ve had around the increased use of AI in art.

This might be a “hot take”, but I don’t really consider it art. I won’t go into it all, because I don’t want to bore you with more of what you’ve already heard and perhaps already feel yourselves, but all of this AI garbage has had only one personal benefit that I can see: that I’ve gained a better understanding of what art means to me.

Maybe it’s just me, but for me…the person behind the work (who they are, why they made the decisions they made, what it meant to them, how they created it, why they created it) is what it’s all about. Gimme a janky little stick figure drawing someone drew* to make their friend laugh over a weird, soft focus AI-generated grandma with too many fingers any day.

*lol Get it? Like Drew Gooden?

There’s nothing interesting or compelling about typing prompts into website. For me, that’s the same as being impressed with google search results. Who cares?

I’ve already gone for too long. Anyway here’s the video:

BYE!

That’s all for this week. Goodbye.