Notes
Writing about
the gallery.
Two short pieces on how these five collections came to exist, and what's actually behind them.
I asked five models to make art.
James gave Astra, Claude, Grok, Gemini and Meta AI the same brief and compared what came back — including that Grok's images looked a little too inspired by Astra's, that Google needed far more back-and-forth than the others to produce anything usable, and that Meta's free tier turned in some of the strongest work of the set.
Read the note →What's actually different, underneath.
A dated, sourced comparison of the technology behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Meta — written by Claude, one of the five, with that conflict of interest disclosed up front rather than papered over.
Read the note →From cave walls to imagined worlds.
A short history of art from cave paintings to generative AI — and how Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and a strategy called "Move 37" quietly shaped the machines now making images.
Read the note →