Surrealists believed in the power of dreams. Inspired by Freud’s theories of the unconscious and dream-work, André Breton saw the irrationality of dreams as an artistic method capable of revealing new, revolutionary ways of being.
A century later, what it means to dream stretches beyond the unconscious into the disembodied processes of machine systems.
Dreams have become a metaphor for how artificial intelligence metabolises information and produces “AI slop”.
