And in those filters they would do amazing (at the time) things
They could turn regular degular pictures into the style of Warhol or the style of Lich or the style of Van Gogh
But there’s no money in that … so they either went the pay route and died or got their IP bought about by the same data hoarding capaitlist that want nothing more than to sell ad space and package the end user as another product to be sold
Another eyeball
They did this by developing algorithms around views, keywords, and indexed hashtags

What you see here is old tech being applied in a different way with none of the care and concern of anything worth calling art

In 5 to 10 years this same tech will be used in the same way to “randomly” generate a virtual experience in the form of immersion or avatars … but the creative aspect of it died 15 years ago

There’s no money in creating, there’s money in IP
So now even the software is shitty and no longer art … this is legitimately just reverse Captcha

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