Seth Hatfield
@napkinsketches.bsky.social
Maker of drawings, paintings, and animations. Looking for work.
The goal of companies like perplexity has always been (through personal data) to instrumentalize as much of your life as possible. When the end goal of technology is to think your thoughts before you have them, and you become enmeshed with that system, the result is abdication of agency.
This is the exact agentic AI privacy disaster that Meredith Whitaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social described at SXSW:
July 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The goal of companies like perplexity has always been (through personal data) to instrumentalize as much of your life as possible. When the end goal of technology is to think your thoughts before you have them, and you become enmeshed with that system, the result is abdication of agency.
July 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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1/2 Most of the time, the use of over the top words like "terrifying" just makes the author look like a crank, but in this case, it could very well be justified. Memory of what was written was virtually nonexistent and brain connectivity collapsed by 47%. Read the thread.
x.com/itsalexvacca...
x.com/itsalexvacca...
June 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
1/2 Most of the time, the use of over the top words like "terrifying" just makes the author look like a crank, but in this case, it could very well be justified. Memory of what was written was virtually nonexistent and brain connectivity collapsed by 47%. Read the thread.
x.com/itsalexvacca...
x.com/itsalexvacca...
June 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thinking about trying to do a comic lately, exploring how it might look.
June 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Thinking about trying to do a comic lately, exploring how it might look.
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Update: While the 10yr ban on State Ai regulations progresses through the House, 140 organizations join the call to reject this proposal!
Add your voice to these organizations today by calling your representatives and tell them to reject this proposal!
thehill.com/policy/techn...
Add your voice to these organizations today by calling your representatives and tell them to reject this proposal!
thehill.com/policy/techn...
May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Update: While the 10yr ban on State Ai regulations progresses through the House, 140 organizations join the call to reject this proposal!
Add your voice to these organizations today by calling your representatives and tell them to reject this proposal!
thehill.com/policy/techn...
Add your voice to these organizations today by calling your representatives and tell them to reject this proposal!
thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
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So if I am getting this right:
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
“President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation” bit.ly/43amMei
Trump fires top U.S. copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
bit.ly
May 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So if I am getting this right:
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
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While a Youtuber released a 3 hr video cherry picking information, elevating astro turf tech groups, and claiming the lawsuits are faulty, in reality things are moving in a positive direction for creatives!
In one of the lawsuits brought up, Kadrey v Meta, this is what the judge had to say 👇
In one of the lawsuits brought up, Kadrey v Meta, this is what the judge had to say 👇
May 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
While a Youtuber released a 3 hr video cherry picking information, elevating astro turf tech groups, and claiming the lawsuits are faulty, in reality things are moving in a positive direction for creatives!
In one of the lawsuits brought up, Kadrey v Meta, this is what the judge had to say 👇
In one of the lawsuits brought up, Kadrey v Meta, this is what the judge had to say 👇
We do a little sketching.
April 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We do a little sketching.
The more I think about the Marathon gameplay reveal the more depressed I get. Been dreaming about a Marathon reboot for years but what I had in mind was more like marathon getting the doom 2016 treatment. Maybe with some immersive sim elements added in too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The more I think about the Marathon gameplay reveal the more depressed I get. Been dreaming about a Marathon reboot for years but what I had in mind was more like marathon getting the doom 2016 treatment. Maybe with some immersive sim elements added in too.
Just a quick mapcrunch study for #pleinairapril
April 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Just a quick mapcrunch study for #pleinairapril
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This is an actual billboard in SF. How long until it’s too late to fight against big tech?
How long until you are obsolete?
How long until you are obsolete?
March 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is an actual billboard in SF. How long until it’s too late to fight against big tech?
How long until you are obsolete?
How long until you are obsolete?
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March 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Another recent piece. Graphite on moleskine sketchbook paper. I have a (bad? good?) habit of starting a with casual sketch and then ending up doing a 10+ hour drawing. #illustration #art #graphite #sketchbook
March 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Another recent piece. Graphite on moleskine sketchbook paper. I have a (bad? good?) habit of starting a with casual sketch and then ending up doing a 10+ hour drawing. #illustration #art #graphite #sketchbook
Recent sketchbook noodling. Enjoyed doing the little face on this one.
#graphite #sketchbook #fantasyart
#graphite #sketchbook #fantasyart
March 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Recent sketchbook noodling. Enjoyed doing the little face on this one.
#graphite #sketchbook #fantasyart
#graphite #sketchbook #fantasyart