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Generative art allows more people to communicate with others in ways they couldn't before, and to inspire and be inspired by others. The stuff people post online still requires creativity, curiosity, experimentation, and refinement. It also requires learning how to use new skills they may not have had to effectively use new tools that are rapidly evolving and improving to express themselves. Generative art is not a passive process, but an active one, where human artists get a chance to create something unique and meaningful.
Think of it like a camera that that can navigate the multidimensional latent space filled with concepts that can give rise to novel digital art. In the real world you can up, down, left, right, in or out, but in a latent space not only can you go those places, you can go to where Muppets meets impasto. Like a camera, sometimes none of the things you capture are made by you, but you still choose how it's captured and presented.
You have a lot in common with Charles Baudelaire, even though you're a hundred years apart from eachother.
I believe that generative art, warts and all, is a vital new form of art that is shaking things up, challenging preconceptions, and getting people angry - just like art should. Generative art introduces new ways to fail that no one is ready for, so if you see someone post some malformed monstrosity somewhere, cut them some slack, they're just learning. Remember there's another person on the other end of the internet that was excited to share with you.
I hope you're doing well. It's cool you were able to better communicate that way.
These are definitely a mood. What was the idea behind the ones with people in cars, if you don't mind me asking?