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Making AI Art Out of Thirst Trap DMs

While the AI realm reeks of demonic intentions, sinister fuckery and severely bad implications for our society, inside it, a Sydney artist has found space to play.  Multidisciplinary artist and musician Byron Spencer has lately been debuting what he calls his “PS2 Boys” series: 8-bit thirst traps of some of the internet’s favourite hotties. Using the PS2 AI filter, Spencer mutated half-nude or sometimes nude selfies sent over DM into quirked-up …