Bolivian Australian artist Violeta Ayala created the piece during an arts residency at Mila, one of the world’s leading AI research centers. These residencies, usually hosted by tech labs, museums, or academic centers, offer artists access to tools, compute, and collaborators to support creative experimentation with AI. Pieces by artists who have participated in AI art residencies have been featured in galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Centre Pompidou in Paris. “Changing the context from random users prompting models in Discord to formal residencies doesn’t alter the core issues,” Goetze says. “The more we’re exposed to these visuals, the more ‘normal’ they might seem.” That normalization, he speculates, might soften resistance not just to AI art but also to AI in other domains.