using genAI models is training in obedience rather than "creativity"; the user cedes the capacity to imagine to the model and is taught how things are supposed to appear (by the corporate power concentrated behind the models)

on the surface, using an image generator seems like one is participating in power, at the level of infantile wish fulfillment, but in practice, prompting is more like begging than making or manifesting something

The typo will haunt me forever

New WaPo motto just dropped