Happy publication day Nic! Congratulations xx

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Congratulations Nicola! Looks fabulous, gorgeous cover!

Yes. It felt v useful & positive in that sense. Affirming our craft and practice, while also starting to think how the impacts, how we might resist & support one another where necessary.

Thanks Nicola. Was a great coming together, thinking & organising. The other notion was that AI is the new millenium bug... a lot of chat & invested tech companies desperate to see it fly but perhaps it will end up with little use or relevance.

With an infinite sea of average, non-challenging 'art'. There will be less story, intention, real world meaning and impact behind the art works produced with AI. While the proles make content for the billionaires entertaining us to death.

Job loss and environmental impacts. The footprint of AI is colossal. What emerged for me was a sense that tech media wants every person to be able to produce cheap replica art. Then their internet platforms will be flooded with content, keeping us hooked, attention stolen...

What resulted was a brilliant collective action. 20+ artists getting together and exploring the implications of AI for our work, how we see the future, and what action we can take. Unions, collective action and licensing were discussed. Along with concerns raised about ethics...

Wow! I went to a great session on AI for artists at Ed Uni yesterday. It was mis-advertised as workshop for freelance creatives. We thought it would be training. In fact it was funded by Adobe and we were there as a focus to help them learn how to land AI with creative professionals...

Hallucinatory AI... 21st century De Quincey dreaming up new literary scholars...