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'Banal and hollow': Why the quaint paintings of Thomas Kinkade divided the US (www.bbc.com)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, nice work if you can get it. I can't really blame a guy for waving a middling bit of oil canvas Americana and saying "You'd buy this painting if you loved America" when its been such a cash cow. If Kinkaid hadn't been pushing this slop, someone else would have.

But it does highlight the appeal of "Good Enough" AI art to these people. They want their graven images so badly and now we have a big machine that pumps them out on demand ad infinitum. Joseph Smith couldn't have asked for a more magical device.