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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Found in Translation
As I write, it is early 2024, and it feels like “AI” has very much gone overground. For a lot of people, this means playing with generative systems for producing images (and rudimentary videos) from…
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DRASS – choose your fighter
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Kubla Khan vs AI
I am fascinated by CLIP guided neural interpretations of text. There’s something delightful about the interplay between the metaphorical language of poetry and the dream-like hallucinations of the net. Some of the lines produced amazing…
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Cryptid Currencies
These cryptid currencies are produced by a GAN trained on approximately 5000 banknotes from across the world. A cryptid is an animal that exists in folklore, but has yet to be scientifically proven to exist…
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Here Right Now
If you’ve got an hour to spare, you could spend it listening to me talk about #deepfake, synthetic media and why you shouldn’t believe everything you see. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/here-right-now/id1518937248?i=1000480919062