[…] But beyond the tired issue of creativity lies something more crucial. AI image generators would not deserve much criticism were they reliant on artists’ consent and marketed as software plug-ins. They are, after all, playful and accessible entry points into computational art and, if the dull homogeneity of their output is diversified, may even become useful tools for some artists. It is the claim to a new form of art by the industry’s public relations engine and the art market that is extremely problematic, especially when it is used to motivate hyperbolic claims of machines’ general intelligence. Such claims exploit culture and art to reinforce what I call an ideology of prediction, a belief that anything can be predicted and, by extension, controlled. Prediction ideology is the operating system of the Global North.

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