DRASS – On The Hill
I’m delighted to announce that the new DRASS album, called “On The Hill” is now available on the usual streaming services. It’s a concept album of sorts, inspired by aliens and telepathy. It is an…
Rorschach Test
One of the more fascinating aspects of current generative video models is their ability to imagine the intervening frames of a sequence. Give them a first and last frame, and a prompt, and the model…
Hallucinated Heroes
Most prompt-based generative AI systems are trained using some form of input and output pairs – an image and the text description of the image or the beginning of a sentence and its completion. What…
The return of @factbot1
I created the original factbot1 as a twitterbot in 2014. Remember 2014? It was quite a different time, before the pandemic, Brexit and Trump. In fact Trump indirectly inspired the creation of the original bot.…
DRASS – Tridactyl
The new single from the forthcoming DRASS album, On The Hill. Available on all major streaming services.
AI in “not always evil” shocker
This is JT. JT is a writer and standup comedian. He also has cerebral palsy. I met JT in Presuming Ed’s, via our mutual friend Scott, the sweariest man in Brighton. Like many able-bodied, I’d…
DRASS – The Spectacle
Inspired by Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, the new single from DRASS tears into a world where images replace truth, rebellion gets branded, and life is lived at one remove – through screens, feeds,…
Slow AI Manifesto
It’s 2026. Everyone hates AI. Artists, in particular, really fucking hate AI Which leaves me, an artist, who uses AI in their work, in a tricky position. This isn’t intended to be a rant, or…
Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With
Originally published in the aiEthix blog The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot…
Animated Aberrations
I’ve been experimenting with a new AI video model, utilising my solar-powered GPU rig to animate some of the images I created for the printed Aberrations Volume 1 booklet last year. In keeping with the…
AI, Art & Culture
A recording of my talk at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution https://www.brlsi.org/ discussing AI, Art & Culture, followed by a very lively set of questions from the audience! (The recording was made via…
DRASS – Nucleation Point
Written, arranged, produced, performed and generated by DRASS. For the video, I am leaning into the default ‘creepy influencer’ vibe of Flux – video generated with the FramePack generative-video model, entirely powered from the solar…