As it turns out, AI image generators aren't very creative when left to their own devices. A new study published in the journal Patterns finds that when AI-generation models talk to each other long enough, they default to just a handful of visual motifs, resulting in an ultimately generic style--what the authors of the study call "visual elevator music." As AI systems "increasingly generate and evaluate their own creative outputs, they begin to influence not only what we produce but also how creativity itself evolves," notes the study.

  Continuing: Billy Childish  | keep the mojave weird at at Lehmann Maupin In his newest series based on a road trip in 2025, British painter, writer, and musician Billy Childish depicts the western United States in scenes from California. Seen together, the  works occupy a space that is both contemporary and eternal, where each landscape feels familiar yet remote. From soaring mountain ranges, to arid desert, to verdant lakes, each image offers a narrative vignette th...