It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
AI as a Fascist Artifact
(Christian Tieber hat eine deutsche Übersetzung des Textes angefertigt: “KI” als faschistisches Artefakt. Vielen Dank Christian!) (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. […]
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
3: Consulting the Record: AI Consistently Fails the Public - AI Now Institute
Amid the excitement over AI’s (speculative, hypothetical) potential, we have lost sight of the sobering reality of its present and recent past. AI is already intermediating critical social infrastructures, materially reshaping our institutions in ways that ratchet up inequality and concentrate power in the hands of the already powerful. It is consistently deployed in ways […]
AI, Artifice, And Authenticity
The era of badly-automated homogenized engagement slop is upon us. I desperately want to believe there's a renaissance for authenticity on the other end.
AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why "AI populism" is just "populism"
AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.
Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
The Omg Lol Times · We have to talk about AI “art”
Note: In this post I’m going to use the term “AI” as a lazy shorthand for “generative content creation via large-scale pre-trained models” because time is tight and I’ve got arthritis. I know it’s not really “AI”, but please, let me give my typing fingers a break here.
The Left-Wing Policy That AI Evangelists Suddenly Love
Alas, they love it for all the wrong reasons.
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
Would You Just Look At This Shit
Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as they try to justify years of hype.
There is starting to be some genuinely interesting AI-created film stuff (among a flood of slop), and I suspect this will only accelerate. The “is it art?” debate will grow Benjamin’s 1935 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” already argued it’s likely the wrong question.
AI* and fascism/discrimination/bias/politics
See also law enforcement/surveillance/war: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections… * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* and art/photography
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
How the unholy alliance of Big Tech and the far right threatens the world
Las denuncias de sesgo contra plataformas digitales se multiplican en las elecciones de Brasil
Why did Meta change its moderation system before Brazil’s elections?
Muse, in its own files
Black Migrants Bear Brunt of ICE's Facial Recognition Push
The LA Times’ Political Rating “AI” Is A Silly Joke Aimed At Validating Wealthy Media Ownership’s Inherent Bias
Database of 16,000 Artists Used to Train Midjourney AI, Including 6-Year-Old Child, Garners Criticism
An AI-altered photo of a ram won a Maryland State Fair contest, sparking outcry
Meta AI Has Some Super Normal Ideas for Improving Your Band Photos
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AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
