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    What is “art”?

    [Content Warning: Highly Indecent Erotic Art]

    That’s one of the third rails of philosophy. It’s like starting a land war in Asia, when you’re not the Asian.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 9, 2024
    • AI, Art, I don't even know how to categorize this one
    • 21 Comments

    Better Late Than Never, I guess

    I’m mad at myself for not thinking of this earlier:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 1, 2024
    • AI, Art
    • 15 Comments

    I Suppose This Will Not Matter

    Many articles about “AI deepfake of Congressman Porkbelly fucking a Goat” are clearly fake …

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 20, 2024
    • AI, Art
    • 7 Comments

    One Workaround

    This is a fairly well-known Peanuts strip:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 7, 2024
    • AI, Art
    • 6 Comments

    Artificial Genius

    This is a supreme – indeed superpowered – example of skills. Media matching, synchronization, and content management.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 6, 2024
    • AI, Art
    • 6 Comments

    Distributed Computing

    It’s funny how much effort we put into building redundant and reliable systems (e.g.: “cloud computing”) that scale and replicate well – yet they are subject to the simplest of attacks that can disable them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 3, 2024
    • Administrivia, AI, Cyberwar, Science, Technology, Terrorism
    • 8 Comments

    Will the “Influencer” Market Collapse?

    I don’t put a lot of attention into Instagram, but occasionally I post a picture of a work in progress, there, or I browse “drunkpeopledoingthings” and “thingsblowingup” – OK, it’s embarrassingly prurient.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 23, 2024
    • AI, Art
    • 18 Comments

    .. In The Style Of…

    Over at Pharyngula, [pha] Covert Master Provocateur xohjoh2n mentioned a Midjourney prompt about Robert Smith of The Cure, in the style of Titian.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 16, 2024
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
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    Here’s an idea for an app

    Remember screen savers?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 6, 2024
    • AI, Art, Silliness, Things That Delight Me
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    Gordon Ramsay, Please?

    I do so not get this. “With pine nuts” or even baguette is acceptable.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 31, 2024
    • AI
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