Hate Art
11 Things I Hate About AI
Marie Le Conte | Young Vulgarian | 9th May 2025
Well-expressed scepticism. Perhaps the daily friction of life that AI tools promise to eliminate is a crucial part of the human experience. We learn skills by trying to acquire them, and from starting with a blank canvas that gradually gets filled via our effort. Painting an original work is not the same as completing a paint-by-numbers exercise. We need "tough love", too, which a "digital courtier" will not provide (4,400 words)
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'Tone Deaf, Self-Important, Incredibly Bad Art'
Eddy Frankel | Guardian | 6th May 2025
A really furious one-star review can be a thing of beauty. By the end of this one about an art show by former Take That member Robbie Williams, the critic is questioning whether today's art landscape has degraded beyond saving. "On a basic, artistic level, the work looks bad and expresses incredibly superficial ideas very poorly. It’s a 'live, laugh, love' sign slowly strangling you with its self-importance" (900 words)