I see talks about Generative Art Enthusiasts, and one of the things that strikes me as surprising is how often people will describe seeing a homogenity of opinions on the topic, which also happen to align with the stupidest fuckers in the world who aren't good at making reasonable points.
This is interesting to me because it isn't my experience, but even the people with other thoughts about the toolkit are pushed to present in a similar defensive crouch because they'll be addressed as if they are those other people.
When people want to show me these shitty opinions and arguments about generative media, it inevitably comes to a twitter thread link, or screenshots of a twitter thread, and to that I kinda wonder if maybe the problem is that twitter is full of shitheads? Have we considered that there's a spotlighting fallacy at work here?
