Matt Alt's Pure Invention

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Under the AI Kimono

I asked an AI to write a digest of this article: "Japan has always blurred the lines between what is real and reproduction, making it an interesting place to observe the impact of generative AI.”

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Matt Alt
Mar 29, 2023
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Something interesting happened last week — my wife and collaborator on many projects and books, Hiroko, tweeted a critique of an illustration of a woman in a kimono, and it went viral. (The person she’s quote-tweeting deleted their post amid the deluge of attention, but you can see all of the imagery in Hiroko’s thread.)

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