[Opinion] AI tarot decks

[borbponderer]

I've never used an AI generated deck, but I've used generative AI as an oracle of sorts. Dalle-2 was especially good for that as the outputs could be so weird and random. It was like having a secondary visual cortex.

Been playing with Gemini recently which has a very different character. It's less weird and less random. I suspect with anything like this the results are only as good as the practitioner.

For me the biggest ethical sticking points with AI are the environmental costs, and the way it's being weaponised is altogether terrifying. But it's out there now and part of the world now, so...

 

[Grigorij]

I mean, I think technically you can just take a bunch of cards and draw the names/numbers of the arcana and it would work. But AI art tends to be ugly

 

[Nightgrowler]

As a lifetime artist which dedicated almost 7 years of my life to making a Tarot deck I can say that all AI can do for you in production of the Tarot deck is basically robbery of the whole experience. Making your own deck is a journey of initiation and attempts to rush it can ruin you or said initiation. There is no way I could come up with such synchronicity stacks if all the work would be done for me by an AI. And utilizing such tools is a clear mark of Western psyche which is all about productivity and matching numbers.
Yves Klein Quote: “My paintings are only the ashes of my art.”
This quite clearly illustrates the nature of the art itself and how AI has nothing to do with it.
AI will not give you the magick behind the process of making one's own Tarot deck which btw was part on initiation process in the Order of the Golden Dawn and several others.

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