AI is a new technology that I doubt will disappear, and for certain sectors, such as medicine, it could represent transcendental advances that could save thousands of lives, but its use in the artistic field responds to the purely avaricious needs of the large entertainment conglomerates, which only seek the greatest profits, at the expense of the precariousness of countless artists, based on the theft of their intellectual property.
From 1903 to 1907 Augustus Jansson produced more than 30 striking adverts for the Queen City Printing Ink Company, including the wonderful Ink Beasts Parade series, with its "Magenta Ponies" and "Orange-Yellow Ibexiaticus". More here: https://t.co/Ys970HSduT
Illustrations from Maria Sibylla Merian’s stunning Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705), a compilation of sixty elaborate engravings of insects and their floral environs which the naturalist encountered on her travels to Dutch colony Surinam: https://t.co/FVI8N1xZY9