Good luck ever buying a graphic tee ever again. Even packaging on shit at Costco is AI sometimes. And the vendors at local art events with fetid garbage taking the place of people who have authentic things to sell. Fucking slopsville, all of it, bullshit detectors pinging 24/7, it's exhausting.
It's from the 30's actually, haha, probably a similar amount of issues though.
It's crazy how difficult it is to avoid AI. I bought a supposedly vintage print in a frame last summer from a lady at an event, it wasn't until after I bought it she told me she downloaded it online and it was also AI. Like fuck it all man. I can't even find good puzzles anymore, what are we doing.
True story, one of our cats scratched me SO bad wrangling them into the basement for this nado that I had to spend a year picking her up and just carrying her around periodically to get her super comfortable for the next disaster. I'm thinking train derailment next time.
The tornados are back everyone!
NEED TO SEE THIS RIGHT NOW.
Meant to say this before but I'm jealous of your beard.
For example, if I run the microwave and toaster at the same time, my office upstairs loses power and so does half the kitchen. How stupid do you have to be to think AI can figure out the wiring of your house over an electrician physically looking at your setup. I swear to god...
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Tweet that says, "I’m sure this will make you sad too, but I’m also using Claude to second guess home contractors. The licensed electrician was lying to me (or just totally wrong) about the kind of wiring in my house and recommending an expensive and unnecessary job."
This is the sort of thing I'm talking about in just implicitly trusting AI and acting like it doesn't hallucinate.
If you had to hire an electrician in the first place, what makes you think you're qualified to judge Claude's output to determine if the electrician is wrong?
I procrastinate so I don't become too overpowered, it's a favor to society, I tell myself.
I want to be an artist, but I don't want to learn how.
I want to be a filmmaker, but I don't want to learn how.
I want to be a musician, but I don't want to learn how.
I want to be a writer, but I don't want to learn how.
AI, for those who can't, don't, and won't.
Once AI 'films' start hitting the market, it'll be like the C-list movies you see on DVD at Target with 6 price tags layered over one another as they decrease the price every month hoping someone will buy it until they eventually penny it out and throw it in a dumpster.
It was probably never a good book to begin with if we're being honest, lol. I may take you up on that though, thanks!
Really dumb tweet that says, "In my opinion, running an AI film competition before Seedance 2.0 is publicly released feels unfair. Participants who already have early access are clearly using Seedance 2.0, while those who don’t have access simply can’t compete on the same level. Like it or not, the difference in results is noticeable. I think it would make more sense to put the competition on hold and extend it until Seedance 2.0 is available to everyone. That way, all participants have equal opportunity. But maybe there are other perspectives, I’m not seeing, what do you think?"
Da Vinci to Michelangelo:
"In my opinion, running an art competition before burnt sienna is publicly released feels unfair."
Getting Your Book Published for Dummies.
Lmao, was organizing an old box of books just now and came across this 26 year old book I forgot I owned. It's a sign.
Luckily I can lean into my artistic abilities just paint shit I can't write well, lol.
I'm gonna make a book before I die. Maybe more than one.
Just putting this out in the world to try and hold myself accountable. It's basically worthless, but I'm getting a small amount of dopamine from posting, so that's something.
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case over AI's copyright eligibility, effectively backing the United States Copyright Office's stance that copyright only applies to human authored works 🔥
Like, if you haven't seen anything about this yet, just watch it, don't look at any trailers. Trust me.
I missed it in the theatre, but Predator Badlands, what a fucking awesome movie. It goes so many places I just didn't expect, hot damn was that my jam. Every Dan Trachtenberg Predator project has been better than the last and they're all so good.
I've bounced back and forth between the two a lot, there are always tradeoffs, haha.
Right? I've tried a number of different surfaces, but this Strathmore paper finally made it click and I was like, "Oooh, this is how it's supposed to work."
I'm a huge fan of puzzles and the process of watercolor feels like putting together a puzzle for me, it's cool.
I swapped out my mixed media paper for just straight watercolor paper, and I think for the first time in my life I'm actually really vibing with watercolors. I love gouache still, but watercolors are really kind of special once you wrap your head around them.
Sunlight gleaming off the Salesforce tower in San Francisco in a star like pattern in the fog.
When I was working in San Francisco, sometimes the light and fog would do this weird dance off the Salesforce tower, it shimmered and shifted as the clouds moved past. I don't think I ever got a video unfortunately.
I've read the Hot Zone and Panic in Level 4, I'll have to pick that one up. The Hot Zone terrified me for years.
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