Texture of neural media
Could a generative image model, never having seen Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot, have been used to create such beauty? Can a neural generative model imagine beyond its own world model? How can we build models that can help imagine new worlds, not just permutations of the one we know?
Neural generation has its own creative texture just as acrylic on canvas and film and glass and steel and violin and on and on and on. The message can't escape the medium. There is no textureless transmission modality, and there is no textureless creative tool. We should approach any young dogmatic view of artistic creation, especially one that claims to be all-containing and all-enabling, with trepidation.
There is no ultimate media. There is only the next one.