Creating With AI, Not Over It: Why I Embrace GenAI Mistakes
There's a deadness in the work when I force a specific outcome. It's better to play with the tool and let mistakes become the work.
There is a particular kind of deadness that shows up when I try to force a specific outcome for a generative system. It’s so much more fun to play with the tool, mess with prompts, iterate, make mistakes, etc and then allow those into the work.
That’s exactly what happened here with the weird white strobe on the models face in our first generation. I went with it.
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Okay, Unscripted! is written by Leah Fasten, a photographer and creative director based in San Francisco and New York.
“Okay, Unscripted” is Leah’s GenAI sketchbook and includes technical experiments, visual journal entries, and case studies. Unless named, all visual work on this site is made using GenAI. Words are written by Leah with SEO help from AI.
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