I really want to write an update to Benjamin's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for algorithmic production. Both NFTs and deep-learning algorithms present such weird commodification of art, a commodity of the simulacrum of art, that they're representing a new kind of relationship to it. Their valueless money buys valueless imagery which only exists as a speculative asset to prove that something can be bought with the monopoly money. If r/modernart would grow already I'd do a whole megathread series about it.