Showing posts with label Artificial intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artificial intelligence. Show all posts
Monday, February 16, 2026

Taking a stand against LLMs in the arts (it’s what Conan would do)

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“In a system where men are protected by hired forces, and waited on by machines, how can any real self-confidence and self-reliance be induc...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth, and the need for lines

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My neighbors (most of them) outsource their lawn care. They used to fertilize and cut their own lawns, maintain flower beds and gardens. Now...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Create for the sake of creating, algorithm be damned; plus 3 cool things

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Some of the YouTube creators I follow have all voiced a similar lament in the past few weeks. Views are plunging. Old video types they used ...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

The world is shit; what do we do?

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If we are to take everything we read at face value, with the deadly seriousness the news makers tell us we should, we should never get out o...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

We need tastemakers

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When I first started getting into sword-and-sorcery fiction, the internet was a fledgling, creaky, place. Charming, but impractical. Think b...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

Disconnect

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“Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.” “I've been to a town Del.” --Jeremiah Johnson Technology has ta...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

White Noise by Don DeLillo, a review

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At the time Don DeLillo wrote White Noise (1985) computers were still a discrete object and something that you engaged with on an occasiona...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

More generative AI harm

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The result I was anticipating has occurred. A Federal California Judge today ruled in favor of AI giant Anthropic, stating that the company’...
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Some further thoughts on generative AI art

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We’re getting increasingly embedded into machinery. The future is almost certainly cyborg, flesh and circuitry melded together. It is alread...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

A crisis of artificiality

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The world is getting increasingly artificial. And by world, I mean the online spaces most of us inhabit for many/most of our waking hours.  ...
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Thursday, December 7, 2023

The hellscape of KISS avatars and AI art

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KISS (holograms) love you! KISS just wrapped up a 50-year career in typical KISS fashion. Selling product. Not content to leave the stage wi...
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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Why (Human Generated) Sword-and-Sorcery?

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Fuck you asshole... I'm here to write your sword-and-sorcery Wherein I rage against the machine. Check it out here, on the blog of DMR B...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Railing against AI art

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I hate computer generated art* and worry very deeply about what a future dominated by artificial intelligence will look like. Both for artis...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

33 years to immortality. Maybe.

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In 2045 we will reach Event Horizon, aka the Singularity. In that year we will transcend biology and our bodies will meld with machines. ...
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