With their powers combined, I have summoned from latent space the ultimate problematic being that would be criticized for all the wrong reasons-
BEHOLD:
hello vonnie
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
Stranger Things
will byers stan first human second
Cosimo Galluzzi

titsay
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

if i look back, i am lost

Kaledo Art
Misplaced Lens Cap

oozey mess
RMH

blake kathryn

JVL


Janaina Medeiros

Origami Around

★

seen from Türkiye

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from United Kingdom
seen from Türkiye
seen from Türkiye
seen from Montenegro
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Italy
seen from Tunisia
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Türkiye

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Tunisia
seen from Switzerland
@tangibletechnomancy
With their powers combined, I have summoned from latent space the ultimate problematic being that would be criticized for all the wrong reasons-
BEHOLD:

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Quick reminder:
The reason AI is a helpful art tool for a lot of disabled people isn't "all disabled people need everything to be in condescendingly easy baby mode all the time."
It's "SOME disabilities mean that a person will NEVER be able to achieve the endurance and/or fine motor control required to conventionally make certain types of art that they want to make, and AI can close SOME of those gaps."
For an extreme example, it's completely unreasonable to demand someone make a grand dramatic painting in your digital illustration software of choice with only an eye tracker and puff controller (unless they, personally, LIKE doing things the ridiculously hard way) - but to place a few digital paint blobs for a rough composition, type on an onscreen keyboard, and repeat a few times on different sections, using the same controls? Or even JUST type a prompt on a virtual keyboard for an "enhanced stick figure" level of expression? That's MUCH more feasible.
I remade the trailer to Robot Monster, to serve as a trailer for a hypothetical remake of... you guessed it, Robot Monster.
Destruction has come, hu-mans, and its silliness will not protect you.
My thoughts and how-to process blog post under the fold.
I showed this to one of my friends, and I got the reaction of:
"Cool, I didn't realize it had gotten to the point where it can generate a narrative."
To which my response was:
"It can't."
But that statement made me realize that work remains to do to lay out what it takes to make something like this. So to communicate this, I thought it might be illuminating to show some raws and my editing timelines:
The audio timeline is relatively basic at first glance, but this is the last step after compiling an initial version, using that for the Suno prompt, then editing and remastering that version, and that was what was used as the main timeline component here.
And here's the video timeline:
Vidu makes clips of 4 or 8 seconds. Minmax makes six second clips, and neither really does so at a speed or framing you'd prefer. All the transitions and title effects (minus the electric effect on "shocking, etc" is editing in post.
These gifs are built from the raw output. You can see that a lot of what I wound up using had to be carefully cut around the Bethesda-class wonk, sometimes taking just a second or two, reversing speed, flipping the frame, etc.
And a lot just didn't work initially and had to be reworked or approached differently.
Stuff really hasn't gotten that much more stable than in the "Will Smith eating spaghetti" meme era, it's just now things are just stable enough that someone patient and with some editing chops can produce enough material to weave into a narrative.
AI doesn't make videos so much as it makes video clips. The same way that Midjourney can't make comics but it can make parts of a comic. In short:
Remember: What you see is always curated, it's usually edited, and nothing is ever push-button-and-done.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91217425/ai-christmas-song-spanish-rockin-around-christmas-tree-soundlab-umg
I hate this.
But I hate it in a way that I'm overjoyed about.
Voice cloning is one of the biggest points of contention when it comes to AI use in media right now, and understandably so in my opinion, there is a LOT to work out about it - but this case? This was done with the original artist's enthusiastic consent, and with good reason: she doesn't sound like that anymore. "Oh, man, how cool would it be to have done THIS when I still sounded like THAT?" seems like a pretty open-and-shut positive use case for voice cloning!
There's no issue of copyright here - regardless of where you stand on copyright law, whether it's good, bad, should stay as it is, needs reform, needs rewriting, needs to be abolished outright, whatever, this whole thing has no bearing on it. It neither reinforces nor weakens anything with regards to the law, it just successfully exists within the framework we have.
So what's my beef with this?
My beef with this is - look at the date.
It's Halloween. It wasn't even Halloween yet when this dropped. Why are we making a big deal release of a gimmicky new version of an already overplayed Christmas song!?
It's beautiful. It enrages me for such a mundane reason. It's something I get annoyed about every year! It has nothing to do with any tech controversies, it's just the same shit as always!
Finally, I'm annoyed at a particular usage of AI for reasons that could not have LESS to do with the fact that it's AI. Slowly but surely, the technology is finding its place.
i am not putting this in the master and commander tag
i am not putting this in the master and commander tag
Reblogging this to this blog
Happy Trafalgar Day

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Collective Amnesia (2024, Clip Studio Paint, ~15 minutes)
The Artist At The Controls of The Plagiarism Machine
Resonant Frequency generated with Dall-E 3 via Bing Image Creator, under the Code of Ethics of Are We Art Yet?
The artist attempts to depict himself removing his dog from proximity to a skunk, but the robot seems to be having a lot of trouble with the concept of "skunk"
mandelbrot raven
generated by @philpax using neural network generator midjourney in an iterative collaborative process with me using previously generated images and previous prompts with the above prompt as the final step
directed under the code of ethics of @are-we-art-yet

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
It took two whole days but it's done. The concept is simple: AI generated art, sent to a company who does paint by number kits, and then completed by an amateur. It's an interesting thought experiment - at what point is it truly art? Is it ever art, because it's AI generated? Is it ever art, because it's paint by numbers? Is it always art, because it elicits a response from the viewer?
!7th Century French Arcade
The opulence of French arcades under the Sun King represents one of the greatest historical gaps between rich and poor gamers, and was one of several flashpoints leading to the revolution.
The image(s) above in this post have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain. Prompt under the fold.
I wonder how much corporate AI hype AND social media criti-hype would die down if we cracked down on companies that just straight up lie about what's their software's doing vs. what's just done by random underpaid guys in cubicle farms in India/Africa/South America/wherever else someone can find to exploit.
Like on the one hand we have corporate entities insisting that work is one and the same. On the other hand we have people who either believe that claim...OR who know that it's not and believe this means that there are random guys in cubicle farms hand-drawing these fully rendered images in 30 seconds or less, and think THAT belief is somehow more respectful to art as labor than acknowledging that the computer is a tool.
I believe companies, including both developers and end users, should be required to disclose which of their AI products/services-in-use have a manual override/control center, and which ones don't - and disclose it clearly, in plain view, not buried somewhere deep in the terms of service that someone might just skim over if they read it at all. On top of being a huge blow to false advertising, it would also be great for helping people make informed decisions, because there are different uses for things that are fully automated vs. things that are automated with integrated manual override; for some things, particularly some assistive applications (e.g., object recognition apps for blind people), it's better to have it able to go "I don't know what I'm looking at, let's call up a human to tell us", whereas for things like personal use tools it's really not great to have one's privacy violated by getting another person interfering unknowingly, and for things like utility chatbots - assuming we manage to get to a point where we can reliably give them enough context to hammer out enough of the hallucination issues that they become particularly useful at all - I would rather know for sure that the moment it's "confused", it will direct a customer to MY theoretical human customer support department rather than secretly try the provider company's call center first. Even more, it would also make it easier to fight for better treatment of the workers in those control centers; their labor being hidden to the point where the public, by design, broadly doesn't realize they even exist is a HUGE factor in their exploitation being allowed.
I've seen this a milion times and I've wanted to say this for a while and I'm finally gonna say it in depth: Yes. Yes it is.
Neural nets are at a stage of development that's honestly remarkably like when lasers were first invented - they're a solution in search of a problem. Problem is, unlike lasers:
While the groundwork was done by FOSS enthusiasts and researchers researching for research's sake, a lot of the big loud recent strides have been made under the banners of private companies that want to turn a profit about them, as much and as quickly as possible, and
We're kiiind of on the brink of potentially seeing another tech bubble burst in the wake of 2020 lockdown profits turning out to NOT be a sign of infinite explosive growth, which came as a surprise to absolutely no one except a bunch of rich people who unfortunately were also the ones who had the capacity to fuck around under the assumption that the growth WOULD be permanent and infinite.
So what we have is a situation where people have poured a ton of money into these things - and now they want, nay, NEED, for it to be A Product that they can extract profit from ASAP. Problem is...how?
Making art (illustrations/writing/audio) cheaper? Turns out that if you just let it do its thing you get the most generic garbage imaginable even if it's not AS wonky as it used to be; in order to get something useful out of it you STILL need someone with creative and technical skill running the thing, who still needs to be paid, and it's not like companies were already paying the artists they thought they could replace with a magic button a huge chunk of their revenue anyway, so as it turns out, often enough: money saved < the cost of developing the thing and paying someone to run it. Oops.
Novelty toys? Hobbyist use? Weird experimental stuff? Currently the main thing they're good at! Also, broadly not profitable. Imagine if all lasers EVER turned out to be good for was pointing at things and playing with cats; their invention would likely be seen as a massive waste of money and effort, right? The profit just isn't there. In fact, it's rare for these uses to break even with their operating costs.
Enhancing search engines - or damned near any other "informative" use, for that matter? Worse than useless, it's actively dangerous-
...but at least it's visible, easy to integrate, and looks good on a quarterly report. At least you can sell it to big-money clients. Ding ding ding! We have a winner - at least, in the same sense that you might get by squinting too hard at the word "wiener".
So, there you have it! A thing where a lot of rich people banked heavily on it and now we're just kinda dealing with it even though it's way easier to find applications that no one likes than ones that are actually halfway decent.
It boggles my mind when people refuse to believe that overfitting is a failure state because it just seems so plainly obvious to me that no one, not even the most fervent of NFT suckers, has ever said "hmmmm, yeah, I love my 512x768 jpeg of the Mona Lisa, but I just wish it could take up 7 gb of hard drive space, make my GPU sweat as heavily as a AAA game does every time I want to load it, and never come out exactly the same twice"

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
OpenAI stop taking extremely cool applied math and implementing + marketing it for use in the most evil ways imaginable challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
My Pigs
no it's real