Meanwhile, in the Skies. Can anyone reproduce?
The foreseeable harm from this is a forager cook putting poisonous mushrooms in food they serve to you (and then the harm would be that you die). With GenAI, we must have special handling for poison & weapons, amongst other things.

Remember that 'air head' video made with Sora? Turns out it used a ton of rotoscoping and manual VFX.

A 'head' would pop back on, and the balloon colors would keep changing from generation to generation. TL;DR researchers and developers of generative AI tools really need to…

The Center for Computing History in Cambridge (UK) has this little diorama of the Alamogordo Atari Burial Site, where 728,000 Atari games were buried after the video game collapse of 1983

In which I explore how I think policy intellectuals grapple with making futures of HE. This was inspired by the Lugano Report from 1999 by journalist Susan George, a satirical book-length work abt maintaining the vibrancy of Capitalism tni.org/en/article/the…

Today 25/4 3pm ⁦Cambridge Digital Humanities⁩ ⁦Leonardo Impett⁩ are kindly hosting ⁦Eryk Salvaggio⁩ and Andrea Wallace w me moderating this seminar on Generative AI and The Automation of Creative Labour. cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/38173/

You can read, watch or listen to the latest episode of the Algorithmic Futures podcast with yours truly — chatting with Dr. Zena Assaad and Dr. Liz Williams of ANU. algorithmicfutures.org/s03e02/

The dataset is everything.

Great read: nonint.com/2023/06/10/the…

‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

You can read, watch or listen to the latest episode of the Algorithmic Futures podcast with yours truly — chatting with Dr. Zena Assaad and Dr. Liz Williams of ANU. algorithmicfutures.org/s03e02/

#algorithmicfolklore is seeking (May 7th deadline) two digital ethnographers (PhD & Postdoc) and two digital humanities/media studies scholars (PhD & Postdoc) to come chart the next four years of interactions between vernacular creativity & automation jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Really great talk in Cambridge today from Georgina Voss — now I am *too* excited to read “Systems Ultra” when I get home. :)

Thursday! With Dr. Andrea Wallace!

Large-scale industrial farming is exactly the way I want art to get made

Shallow Slideshows: Authenticity in AI Filmmaking 🎥

Why does almost every AI Film feel dull, generic, and usually just a showcase of the tools?

In this article I explore shallow slideshows and how we can strive for better stories. 🍬

medium.com/@fabianmosele/…

Funny that Lec*n worries about a future Internet that will be mediated by AI assistants deciding what we see, when Facebook’s algorithm is in the same dangerous category of “algorithms that sort and direct our interactions with one another.”

What should I do in Cambridge (UK)? What’s the weird thing to do? I am already sleeping in a seminary, so ✅

Any good #marketers out there doing unfulfilling work that have an interest in helping artists find ways to promote their artwork? Artists are not marketers and many suffer greatly because they have no idea how to begin promoting their work to the world. Who's up to help?

My talk & digital performance at the Taming of Chance panel at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen today reimagined generative AI from the perspective of George Brecht’s “Chance Images,” focusing on randomness instead of probability. Full write up over where I usually write things.

Hot online conference CFP: “Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context”

Abstracts due on Earth Day 🌎 uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the…

TED’s pivot to lab-grown beef and other vague textures is my prediction too