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Ever since the GPT‑3.5 release, the world has been obsessed with generative AI as a production tool.
A tool to produce texts, then images, and so on.
It has felt like a sugar rush, very exciting and fun at first. It’s hard not to be distracted by instantly soothing media when the world’s on fire. But I started to feel the crash. I realized I had lost my focus. The flood of content diluted its meaning and left a void in me. I needed to explore new depths.
I want to create a terrarium and let its unplanned complexity amaze me.
I want to explore how discrete elements interact and form patterns that I will never fully understand. What amazes me isn’t that GenAI can do what a skilled artist does only faster. It’s that it can sit inside an emergent system, digesting more information than any human ever could. For me it’s a realization enabler, not a shortcut to human abilities but a doorway to capacities we’ll never have.
So I’ve started designing generative systems, generative worlds. I’ll plant a starter seed packet, let it grow on its own, then toss in the occasional random event to tilt its evolution.
Where can this go? I’m not sure, and that’s the thrill. This is what I’m going to explore here.
Nelly Harvey 