Collaborative Translations

Thursday, November 06, 2025

Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.

Full moon light through the window on the screen as I write.

How's your dream? O/

Hope all's well.

On with our show...

What about all these AI pics littered over Wonderfell?

They create a more interesting space for the morning journal.

Artists of the world be at peace! AI can never draw a picture, paint a painting.

It can only show a record of what's been done.

AI will never make anything new, never show us what we might be, what we might see, only where we've been and what we recorded.

An AI image is closer to a sentence than a painting.

That is one point Wonderfell makes with the "Same Prompts" left at the end of each post.

Programmers are translating code into vernacular.

What we see when we see an AI image is a group of programmer's translation of the description.

It's like reading a translation of a poem; it's at least a step removed.

If there's any intimacy to be gained, any relationship with an AI image, it's between the prompter, the program team and the viewer.

So when you view a picture on Wonderfell what you see is a collaboration.

How the program teams of Google, Ms. Copilot, and Grok understand and translate my sentence.

Nothing more than that.

There is the human element in it.

AI imagery is a collaborative translation.

Not Art.

In fact that's all AI is: Ways that have worked well, not ways that necessarily work well.

AI is what worked and not necessarily what works.

Advice from a history book is AI's legacy.

Reliable, helpful, only ever as useful as someone else's memory is to your life.

It's memory devoid of feeling, though.

We're so much more than rational creatures.

We're dreamers doing our best to share this space called Life.

Rationalism, empiricism, computation help us share the space.

Enthusiasm, wonder, beauty, joy, love, and awe make living worth our heartbeats.

You can't find them in any image, AI or otherwise, until you recognize them in yourself.

O/

Take your reaction to my circle slash wave for proof wonder lives in you, as do beauty, joy and whatever in all creation love is.

Once a more active involvement with the readers of Wonderfell (you ofc) is established and this Ghos+ business is in the past with AI's information, I'll offer the spaces where I place AI pictures to Artists to show some work.

No charge but a thank you.

The world needs what drives artists, musicians and writer's more than ever.

Three hundred and sixty five Wonderfell posts a year, a new artist per post...

Let's start a Renaissance.

Take care and make wonderful this wonderful day.