While Charles enjoys a writer’s strike of sorts on holiday in Tokyo, Laura sits down with Drew in the studio to talk everything art and AI. Laura and Drew, yes, probably could have just created an AI Charles to join them, but isn’t there something nice about a human touch? 

We talk creativity and labour, the limits of censorship in image- and text-generating software, the limitations of the form, the problem of promptism and trying to remember how to spell the word “vagina,” and if AI portraits make good imaginary friends.