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
cohen, cave, bush, dick, crowley, falkous, bosch, diggs, ballard, borges, dali, bacon, nietzsche, Hopper, sartre, newton, prince, plath, von hagens, albini, houellebecq, basquiat, khalo, machiavelli, freud, ouspensky, marx, van gogh, hawking, orwell, o’keeffe, monroe, man…
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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
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Pan’s Opticon
I’ve been tinkering with Unity as a tool for film-making. I am amazed at the power of realtime gaming systems to generate filmic imagery. This experiment takes the opening paragraphs of War of the Worlds…
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Ian Hislop’s Fake News: A True History.
I created a #deepfake and gave and interview for this BBC4 documentary. It’s well worth a watch – catch the whole thing on iplayer here. If you’re in need of some fakery – I offer…
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The anatomy of a #deepfake
Back in July I gave a presentation to #pydata London about #deepfakes. It has been embargoed for months while waiting for the related TV programme to be released. Well, ‘Ian Hislop’s Fake News’ is on…