In a essay for Outland about AI image generators, Kevin Buist argues that they change our relationship to the idea of genre. It used to be that there was a limited set of words, phrases, and narrative archetypes that elicited the visual elements of a genre. “Cowboy” and “pirate,” for example, are words that conjure images in our minds that are defined by our shared understanding of their respective genres. But the list of words and phrases that can now be visualized in a general way is no longer limited to our loose list of genres. Now that we can elicit images from any expression of language, all possible phrases have become microgenres.
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In a essay for Outland about AI image generators, Kevin Buist argues that they change our relationship to the idea of genre. It used to be that there was a limited set of words, phrases, and narrative archetypes that elicited the visual elements of a genre. “Cowboy” and “pirate,” for example, are words that conjure images in our minds that are defined by our shared understanding of their respective genres. But the list of words and phrases that can now be visualized in a general way is no longer limited to our loose list of genres. Now that we can elicit images from any expression of language, all possible phrases have become microgenres.