AI art as scrying lens

I think it’s fascinating that people who use CLIP art generators so often go for angels, demons, or the akashic records. Myself included!

It’s like a scrying lens for beings that previously could only be seen with the inner eye, or imagination.

Screenshot is from “Mapping the latent spaces of culture” by and art by

Mapping the latent spaces of culture tedunderwood.com

To understand why neural language models are dangerous (and fascinating), we need to approach them as models of culture.

I wonder if people have been doing gnosis with these.

What happens if you stare at that clockwork angel of air while in an altered state of consciousness, and speak to it in your mind? What messages does the clockwork angel of air have to tell us?

Personally I’m intimidated 😅

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