Autogenesis 01

A CLARIFICATION to help the young.

AI is a tool, nothing more, and it “knows” nothing. Through statistics, it calculates a plausible answer.

I have never regarded artificial intelligence as a creative revolution, but as an artificial Down-syndrome intelligence. This term is not an insult; it is the observation of a profound social disability: that of those who no longer know how to use the tool and allow statistical probabilities to dictate their vision.

The marketing of AI companies is a massive deception. They want us to believe that the machine possesses a will of its own, whereas the reality is much simpler: the machine knows nothing; it does. It has no intention, no awareness of harmony, no depth. It is an empty box that people fill with their own laziness.

For me, the tool, whatever it may be, is only a source of light that I place upon my palette of ideas. Look at my work below: the difference is obvious. I do not generate “data” to fill feeds. I materialise a thought. My work is to retain total control of my will. If I delegate execution, it is to a tool that I steer, not to a machine that would decide in my place.

The real tragedy is to see graphic designers lose their talent in this race toward mercantilism. They have traded mastery of their gesture for a blind selection from a catalogue of pre-chewed forms. They have lost the muscle of decision. They have made themselves slaves to a visual “cinema” which, by endlessly looping, will eventually produce the same image every time: a soulless, smooth image, standardised by greed.

Knowledge cannot be delegated; it must be exercised. And as long as I am the one in command, the work will belong to me.

Mathius TO’ERAU, the Suréviste
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