Platform Realism This thread by Roland Meyer proposes the concept of “platform realism” to describe the quasi-photorealistic output of generative text-to-image models like Midjourney. The term is modeled after Socialist Realism, which likewise provided “not depictions of real events, but ‘incarnations’ of abstract concepts, as formulated in prompts.” These are obviously not realistic in the sense of being documentary, but are akin to “realism” as a literary mode, in which a set of stylistic conventions are deployed to try evoke “ordinary people” and “everyday experience” from an apparently neutral or totalizing perspective while deferring questions about how all representations of “reality” are necessarily distortions.
This might look ugly, but in the future would it be possible to do screenshots of Twitter threads? I don't have an account anymore so when I click on the link I can only see the one tweet and not the rest of it
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This might look ugly, but in the future would it be possible to do screenshots of Twitter threads? I don't have an account anymore so when I click on the link I can only see the one tweet and not the rest of it