Meet Rick Dick, the AI artist blurring reality with playful and provocative imagery – interview

Scrolling Instagram these days, you’re bound to find one or two posts that make you pause and second-guess reality every now and then. AI, whether through heavily fine-tuned and retouched hyperrealistic images you’d mistake for the real thing or hastily made surrealist slop generated by video apps like Sora, has taken over our feeds. The gap between too-real-to-be-true and wacky, somewhat nonsensical clickbait, however, is where AI artist Rick Dick operates. At once playful and provocative, his...