Hey there body thermostat you can frickin chill a bit if you like. Don’t have to run like a furnace 24/7.
Just saying.
8C outside. Fan on me inside.
Everybody else midwinter: crawls into bed and shivers.
Me: crawls into bed and immediately begins terraforming.
If you loved the Matrix and you hate the current timeline, you'll appreciate this story.
This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/
I also don’t like when people downplay the harm China’s state causes. Y’all be movin like tankies…I don’t even like that term!
If you saw how much bs China’s state gets away with here on the continent, you wouldn’t be as comfortable glazing them as the antithesis to the US.
Yes, they are so much better than amerikkka, but this “lesser evil” politics y’all subscribe to is a load of US/EU exceptionalism and it got you fucked up.
Hello nous sommes spamedi ! (WHAT ?!)
Aucune nouveauté et la boutique est toujours fermée, mais je vais quand même vous causer boulot.
Vous avez sûrement entendu vos artisan·es préféré·es pleurer à cause de la facturation électronique. Eh bien figurez-vous que cet été n'était pas assez pénible, on nous a rajouté la rep emballages ou PPWR Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.
Point positif : cela harmonise la réglementation sur les emballages.
Point négatif : il n'y a pas d'adhésion à un organisme unique européen, il faut faire pays par pays et c'est PAYANT à CHAQUE FOIS 🤡
petit rappel qu'en france ne pas être dépendant de sa voiture c'est un énorme privilège
I’m the dead one
Credit: Cyanide and Happiness
We report: for a handful of seconds, taken by the sun, we feel weightless. It seems as though it is just us and the sun, and there is the burn and a pleasant warmth at once, a golden glow and the searing light too. The clouds continue to move on, and the sun disappears in them.
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 8th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 11 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com
I'm running in rounds here, thank you Mastodon for being my rubber ducky, even though I'm not really closing in on final answers.
I do think that AI cannot create art, but it can be used as a tool to create art. However, whether that production is ethical or not is a different question.
To anyone reading up to this point: thank you! Now go do something nice!
13/13
There are also artists who use AI to create works of art. In such cases, AI is a tool, nothing more than a big fancy pencil with integrated library. Is their work lesser art because of the use of AI?
12/n
But inspiring is not copying. And copying is not always stealing. Copying art becomes stealing when you use a privilege to market your 'inspired' art, when the original creator does not have that privilege (I read somewhere about Aboriginal art being copied by white artists having this problem). Considering AI's privilege of being accessible/being pushed out to the masses, it's clear there's an unfair advantage to AI-generated art based on copied work.
11/n
Then there's the topic of copying. Can a copy be art? I'm pretty sure there are many artworks out there that were intended as copies of other work, studies, and which are now perceived as artistic pieces in their own right.
Is it bad to be inspired by someone? I think many artists are inspired by others, everyone builds and expands on what they know.
10/n
Would not be the first time that the general opinion changes. In the past, whites considered POC as animals, thankfully that has already changed a lot (there's still a lot left to solve though). With the vast amounts of money spent at influencing the general opinion, who knows whether Silivon Valley will not succeed in convincing the general opinion that AI can "create" art.
9/n
So if art can only be art if made by a human, it follows that AI cannot create art, even if some humans consider it art.
This then leads to the conclusion that humans cannot decide unilaterally what is art and what is not art. There must be some sort of consensus. But then again, what if the consensus changes?
8/n
A beaver dam has never been celebrated as a work of art, while certainly more intricate than a banana strapped to a wall.
And while nature can be perceived as beautiful, if you consider it as a work of art you also consider there's a creator behind it, some kind of super-human.
7/n
So then: is art a social construct, something that only exists if more than one person agree that it is art? If that's the case, then if the balance should shift so that most people start considering AI output as artistic, then aren't we now like the contemporaries of Van Gogh?
Before I'm getting flamed over this, let me continue right away with the fact that art appears to be an activity that is exclusively human.
6/n
How about individuals in the public? Can I decide for myself what is art and what isn't? Do I base myself on the recognition of an effort? But that would mean that a quick drawing made by Picasso would be lesser art than the paint-by-numbers my father took weeks to complete.
Is it the emotion it provokes in me that elevates a production to art? Then again, if I am triggered by an AI output, should I consider that output as art?
5/n
How would 'the public' go about defining what is art and what isn't? Repeatedly the public was initially wrong about art, cue the artists like Van Gogh who got recognised only after they died. And with AI the public will be even more and more wrong about it (yes this train of thought was inspired by https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai). @davidrevoy
4/n
If it's the public who decides what is a work of art and what isn't, then nobody can describe themselves as 'artist', as it is not up to them to define themselves as such. It also means there are no 'failed artists', only people who falsely identify as artists.
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