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Front cover of the book "Humans: A Monstrous History" by Surekha Davies Four monster sculptures by Esti Reich
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¡AU! Journal – Autumn 2025 - Moving fast & fixing things in the creative industries
Issue Two of ¡AU! Journal looks at the crisis of content theft and destruction - from pirates, hackers and ravenous AI.
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Our guests will be @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, author of Humans: A Monstrous History, and Esti Reich, ceramicist & monster sculptor.
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From ¡AU! Journal - "Content by no one, for no one: Surviving the Gen AI bubble" by Neal Romanek 5/6 On a black bg with a Seussian green bare hill, plus an thumbnail image of a video with QR code to access '...pervasive attitude becomes “who knows what’s real anyway”, social contracts, democracies, and even markets start to weaken. Untrustworthiness is built into the DNA of Gen AI itself. The purpose of Gen AI is not to deliver something true, but to deliver something you feel to be true. A chatbot’s entire goal is to make you satisfied with its response. “The technology can’t help but give you an answer to a question,” Lovelace said. “No chatbot will every say ‘I don’t know the answer to that.’ They will always have a go, based on the corpus of data they’ve been trained on, and try to infer an answer.” I. DAMAGE TO INTEGRITY When companies use AI to create content they might be playing with fire as far as brand integrity and public image are concerned. The point that needs to be stressed repeatedly is that Gen AI is designed to satisfy. And it’s easy for us to confuse feeling satisfied with getting the truth. Fun fact: The truth often leaves us feeling unsatisfied and uncomfortable. If you’re feeling satisfied all the time, you may not be getting enough truth in your diet. Every week there is a new example of AI making someone look ridiculous. One recent AI self-own was perpetrated by Vogue, a brand which has spent decades honing an image of quality, exclusivity, and elite glamour. But for an internet moment this summer, they are a laughing stock—along with their advertiser Guess— for running an ad featuring an AI-generated model. Unrealistic body proportions have been a staple of fashion since ancient times. The fact that the photorealistic model in the ad is about 10 heads tall, though weird, is in keeping with tradition. The laughable part is the rest of its anatomy which includes a unnerving mermaid-like waist, a suggestion..." (more) From ¡AU! Journal - "Content by no one, for no one: Surviving the Gen AI bubble" by Neal Romanek 6/6 On a dark bg from black on the left side to brown on the right. 'At a glance, most people are convinced by the ad. Their eyes take in the image, and their brain says “Yep, an attractive woman.” But designers, brands, and others who know quality— Vogue advertisers, for example—will care. Vogue’s brand is about adorning real human bodies. While AI is a tool to make it easier to avoid human bodies—with all their whining and their need for money, food, and time. The AI fashion company commissioned by Vogue, Seraphinne Vallora, is run by two London architects. Their website says “We want to harness the incredible power of AI to revolutionize marketing images. We realized that AI offered a hassle-free path to design brilliance.” The company has created AI campaigns for Elle, Grazie, WSJ and the Financial Times. Of course, we only have the word of Seraphinne Vallora that this is an entirely original AI creation. The training data is likely to remain forever obscure. Could it be, in part, based on the likenesses of real people? When you use Gen AI, you are exposing yourself to potential lawsuits later. Lovelace explains: “We will very soon have some massive scandals where we see the interior of people’s homes or hear things that have been said in private moments which will appear for everyone to see because of what these have been trained on. Identifiable images of our children will start to be available.” II. Financial instability As a “disruptor” technology, AI is luring media companies into jettisoning current business models, perhaps without thinking through the consequences. In a very short time, Google has ceased to be useful as a search engine, with its AI having been pushed forward to answer questions directly—based on other people’s content—to keep you from clicking out of the main Google search page...' (more)
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