Recently the European Parliament decided that plant-based alternatives to meat aren’t allowed to use traditional meat-related terms within the naming. That hilariously dumb decision (surreal that such an important institution even deals with such a non-issue given the times we live in, to be honest) prompted me to revive the very first project about generative image AI I’ve worked on with Virtuelle Kultur e.V. back in 2022/23 called “The Artist Is Present?”. It’s just the perfect set-up to recite one of the most known paintings from a very famous resident of Brussel.