GenAI and the Return to Analog Art?

In my case they're actually not all that related.


Re: the genAI digital art ➡️ analog art migration,

What has me doing analog lately is actually a perfectionism and performance anxiety I have in digital despite my digital output being leagues better than my analog.

BUT

That said, I do feel like only posting digital crops and putting full art in Zines or WebDisks (website that fits on a disk) from here on out when I manage to get over that. 💀💀💀

I dunno… On one hand I realize I can't do anything beyond glaze/nightshade/.htaccess/robots.txt to combat scraping. On the other hand, C'est La Vie-ing it and letting it happen is still hard though.

It just feels weird posting art online for these big weird corpos to turn into statistical data to make more money while I get more broke. It already felt weird enough posting art to the attention economy where people go like

  1. Hahaha! DOPAMINE! (Clap clap)
  2. ∗Press Like∗
  3. ∗∗∗Scroll Away∗∗∗



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