Rick the rabble-rousing Luddite, 🚫AI
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I write stories & try to draw dinosaurs. Still here to support artists and fight AI grifters
1/2 Hi! At age 47 I’m teaching myself to draw, so I can eventually illustrate the ideas in my head. Please join me on my journey from complete newbie to realising my dream on paper. I haven’t drawn anything since last century, and really just copied Calvin & Hobbes.
Protest in front of OpenAI: Against bros who steal art, automate our jobs for profit, and accelerate the mass extinction.
The dramatic uphill approach to Coetan Arthur near St David’s Head, the huge capstone now propped up by just one upright #TombTuesday
Artificial general intelligence is not inevitable. My latest for The Guardian challenges one of the most popular claims made about AGI. Among those who believe AGI is possible, it's common to think it's unstoppable, whether you're excited or terrified of the prospect 🧵
If you asked Robby Müller “How?” about The American Friend's look, he always answered, “We waited.” He scouted every location for hours watching the light. He'd take notes for the best time of day to film there. The shooting schedule was arranged around Robby's approval of light.
how is this possible
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation. Photo also by Baudrillard.
“We’ve already stolen everything, and bribed politicians to ignore our mass theft. We’re good.”
Reminder that I no longer intend to post artwork on twitter! Check out my Cara And Bluesky for any updates. Here’s a screenshot of a post to entice you to view it elsewhere 💖
Guillermo del Toro - Studio Ghibli Masterclass (2013, TIFF festival) ❤️ Now online (80 minutes) >> youtube.com/watch?v=q8Uo2v…
Learn to poem
I am genuinely amazed at how quickly computer science has gone from being the generic major on campuses to something that pretty much no incoming student has any interest in majoring in.
Generative AI competes with its training data, exhibit 92253 Suno trains on copyrighted music, then seeks to take listening time (& therefore revenue) away from that music with products that encourage you to listen to Suno music instead There’s no way this is ‘fair use’
Now Live: Radio — an infinite stream of free, live music made by the Suno community.
I'm a foreign mom who lives in Japan, and it can be a little lonely, so I decided to learn how to draw at 41. I picked a single character from One Piece to draw every day. It's been almost 3 years now.☺️
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My Artist Proof store is officially open! You can now browse my full collection of Magic: The Gathering Artist Proofs and choose how you'd like them signed at checkout. Take a look: tylerjacobsonart.com/artist-proof-s… Thanks for all the support! #MTG #MTGart #ArtistProofs #TylerJacobson
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain 🔗 404media.co/googles-ai-is-…
I’ve left Substack. I’m no longer willing to put my work under the control of billionaires who expect me to jump through silly social media hoops to be heard. This is the first piece on my new site — KatherineArgent.com. Hope to see you there! katherineargent.com/tech-and-power… 🡒
Some of my most recent poster design work. Sharing is appreciated. If you are looking for a versatile, professional and easy going poster designer for your production, look no further. Let's chat! No generative A.I. was used at any point. #posterdesign #keyart
The AI Action Plan is even worse than I thought it'd be. A tech industry wishlist with every box ticked. It signals the further coherence of Silicon Valley and the Trump-led federal government into a cooperative, automation-bent surveillance state. It's a blueprint for dystopia.