The final issue of aithena mag for 2025 centers around the August statement by @kindabloop to cease creating ai art.  I chose this post in order to generate a year-end debate on the state of AI art.  I hope that you will respond to me by emailing aithenaartmag@gmail.com with your thoughts and I will include them in a future issue. I am adding a mailbox page in 2026.

I choose three provocative of the many comments that were posted under his final IG post and featured those three artists in this issue —@oonaode and@gude_ai and @thelightisdarkenough .

These comments are published on their respective feature pages, entirely unedited, along with a selection of their art works. Links on their names or below in the content area.

Another goal for the magazine in the new year is to look at AI in small, personal ways, focusing on how it shows up in culture and how it shapes the way we all create AI art. I will be asking these questions of you all going forward. To start us off, I have included a list of my favorite books, published in 2025, that comment on art and culture and the effects of AI in either direct or tangential ways.

Can we talk about Pluribus? The show credits state, “This show was made by humans,” yet Pluribus taps into the AI zeitgeist in a way that Vince Gilligan, the creator of Pluribus, never intended. Rhea Seehorn is brilliant as Carol. It’s by far my fav show of 2025.