O thou of eyes that have the colour of smoke, I bow to thee.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Dulle Griet. Detail. 1561

Reinhard Gorner - Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Scott Radke - Hands

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

The Mask | 1961 | dir. Julian Roffman

Ange de Carbone by Cahetel Rosier

from The Worcester Art Museum

The Hell, Hortus Deliciarum Herrad von Landsberg, 1180

myglyptothek: Faces of ancient Rome

KORAN (17th Century ) Persian translated, illuminated manuscript written in Naskhi script

kadiwéu body paint, brazil, 1935

Gilgamesh kills the Bull of Heaven, terracotta votive relief, 2250–1900 BC. Such votives were placed in temples as offerings or carried in camels’ saddlebags to gain the gods’ protection. (Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels)

'Fireflies at Ochanomizu' by Kobayashi Kiyochika , 1880