Belonging is redefined. Social groups are not built on connection, but manufactured across networks of shared addiction through the algos of our ever watchful devices. I don’t trust my iPad, it doesn’t have my best interests at heart, it is actively preying on my worst impulses. It doesn’t love me.

law professor Tim Dornis/A.I. scientist Sebastian Stober) but this still doesn’t create a new language of seeing. This text to image tool has less value to humanity than the Slap Chop. These were research labs that created AI not Hasbro and what we got is painting in the style of Van Gogh.

The argument text to image A.I. offers value to our world is flawed. There is no magic process that adds relevance as human creativity is wrung out of the billions of images A.I. consumes. The model relies on the semantic and syntactical approach of living artists (infringement argument from …

should support human flourishing. Why not offer us tools to extend our imagination rather than strip mine living artists. Why are we taking the side of the richest, largest, and most socially damaging businesses on this planet— vs an artist trying to make a living.

I had my work scraped by Stable Diffusion to train their AI, so this isn’t an abstract issue for me. These zombie nostalgia machines diffuse art from the living and the dead—tearing up the road behind us, and then spew this prompt pastiche in front of us like a path forward. Our digital tools …

The weather seems better here.