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Before I understood it was AI, I found it odd that some of the women were somewhat sexualized visually. That seemed to be a bit disconnected from the idea that this is a machine world where I expect it to be emotionless, sexless.

You may disagree but to me it points out the shortcomings still present in AI art — a lack of the ability to make editorial decisions.



Except the machine world in Tron has never been presented as emotionless or sexless. The plot of Tron 2 literally involves a budding romance between the protagonist and a hot computer girl. The franchise's lack of overt sexuality is due more to it being a Disney property than anything, but they didn't hire Olivia Wilde for her acting skills.

Plus, one could imagine the Jodorowsky version of Tron simply making different editorial decisions. It isn't as if fetishizing technology is unheard of - it was HR Giger's entire thing, and it goes back all the way to Metropolis.

Obviously this wasn't the result of a conscious application of vision, but it could very well have been.


Jodorowsky didn't make editorial decisions either; his style is much more about generating as many ideas as possible and jamming them into the medium.

Jodorowsky also sexualizes everything... Consider, for example, this short scene about eating a prickly pear: https://youtu.be/GgX3TlgZj5s




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