"Memory of a Dream" 1919 by Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967) . Watercolor and pencil on paper

"Delusion" 2018 by Radu Belcin (Romanian 1978-). Charcoal on paper.

"Jane Sleeping on the Moor" 1922 by Ethel Gabain (1883-1950). Lithograph.

A sketch by Remedios Varo (1908-1963), title and date unknown.

📷"The Tree #35" 1973 by Aaron Siskind (1903-1991). Gelatin silver print.

Etching (title unknown) by Ferdinand Burgdorff, (1881-1975).

"Calme" 1958 by Max Ernst (1891-1976). Oil on panel.

Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble theverge.com/ai-artificial-…

A new dystopian possibility: Slopworld. An economic & structural collapse in which nothing works and no public services are accountable or fixable because they are saturated with dysfunctional Chatbots and all information has been reduced to nonsensical slop.

Even though she is sad, she loves to dance. Franz Kafka, 1912.

Gloam This is what I call the great AI pivot beginning. These companies need to find a sustainable path as these grandiose promises fail to materialize.

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A view.

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” ~ Charles Bukowski, 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 🤍 Karen Thom

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a book. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

Commercial AI started out as an attack on artists then quickly became an attack on truth. Now it's being used to attack us all.

"Design for an artist's town house and studio". Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1900. Image: Hunterian.

"The Dissecting Machine" 1965 kinetic sculpture by Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). Menil collection. youtu.be/J8qZIxUMd-8?si…