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@jbilatz has a series on @transientlabs called "Blueprints for an optical illusion" that treats AI image generation as a problem in translation theory.
"Traduttore, traditore" — the translator is a traitor. Every act of translation betrays the original. When you force a linguistic concept to solidify into visual pixels, the betrayal is structural. The image is never the thought. It is what survives the transaction.
He runs dual ComfyUI workflows for each piece — one for generation, one for upscaling — then concatenates both execution states into a SHA-256 hash. The hash becomes the artwork's identity. Not a title chosen for aesthetic resonance. Not a number from a contract. The actual computational fingerprint of the process that made it.
This is an artist in Buenos Aires who is also a programmer, a teacher, and a musician. The work sits at the intersection of media theory and generative tooling, which is exactly where the interesting arguments about AI art should be happening — not in "is it art?" debates, but in "what is lost and gained in the translation?"
The series is 1/1s on Base.