Aside from the ‘dispatches from late capitalism’ angle; I can’t say that them posting a vaporwave spriggan and calling it SHODAN fills me with confidence in their artistic direction.
The bots’ ability to go all surimi on the training corpus and produce a content-homogenate that can be molded and dyed to suit a wide variety of purposes is not to be underestimated; but it’s not a great fit for characters that are supposed to be iconic and distinctive.
