I'm more surprised that people think using AI automatically makes image generation not art. AI tooling can be quite complex, and it's much harder than most people think to produce consistent, compelling results, especially with local setups on modest hardware.
It's hard to get a $90k bounty from Google, even with Claude in hand, so we shouldn't be dismissive of that, but it is pretty annoying to read write-ups written entirely in LLM voice.
The first time I heard about Burning Man was at Defcon back in the early 00's. Some folks were telling me how they're going after the con and I asked, what's Burning Man? They told me how it was a sick festival in the desert where people race cars, shoot guns and set stuff on fire. By the time I made it in '09, it was tens of thousands of people, crawling with feds, and a strict 5mph limit was imposed on all vehicles. I had a great time though.
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