Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can't, because he's a fundamentally incurious person who isn't much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to 'what if Batman met Mario?'
- Folding Ideas, "The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall"
Dan Olsen deployed this scathing criticism of Doug Walker specifically to shine a light on a desire to create art while simultaneously (and consciously) refusing to engage with art.
And for the life of me, I cannot think of a better descriptor of AI art and those who promote it.
I see it like, wanting to be seen as a person who creates art, rather than wanting to create art.
