[links] Dante crossing the river Styx on his way to the city of Dis, trending on Artstation

First published on Substack (Opens in a new window).

• Dante crossing the river Styx on his way to the city of Dis, capital city of hell, in whichs center a frozen Satan torments the souls of the traitors, the worst of sinners, guilty of treachery and betrayal towards their friends. Trending on artstation. (Opens in a new window)

• You know you want 55 Mashups of Mariah Careys “All I Want For Christmas Is You” (Opens in a new window). Thank me later.

• “In honor of what would have been Charles M. ‘Sparky’ Schulz’s 100th birthday, cartoonists across the country paid tribute to the Peanuts creator in their own comic strips on November 26, 2022. Schulz is the only cartoonist ever to receive this honor in the comic pages—a fitting tribute for a man who devoted his entire life to cartooning. The Charles M. Schulz Museum is proud to share the collection of tributes on this page (Opens in a new window).”

• “How’s AI art going?” “Oh its just artists dunking on artists (Opens in a new window) all the time. Now there's a data contamination art practice (Opens in a new window) going on both sides #noiaiart with interesting results (Opens in a new window). It's pretty fun actually." "So AI is adding to the art conversation?" "You bet."

• #noaiart in the style of Greg Rutkowski, trending on artstation (Opens in a new window) // Stable Diffusion 1.5, 120 steps, 14 cgf #aiart

• Yes there is a guy prompting Stable Diffusion with “strings and text from inside malware, as well as filenames, and other usable meta data“ to generate Malware AI Art (Opens in a new window). Here’s W97M.Evolution@MM Generation C - IV Third Infection 75e2fd81fd1f27628f39409973da3df7. PC Gamer: AI art generated by the malware behind the cyberattacks on Ukraine is necessarily grim and very wormy (Opens in a new window).

• More seriously, researchers found that AI models bleed training data into their generations and, yes, you can get out original artworks near verbatim by prompting the models with the labels: Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models : MediaSynthesis (Opens in a new window). This paper will be cited in the first AI art lawsuit and while i doubted the legality of AI art generators from the start (Opens in a new window), this doesn’t mean anything really. It just means that copyright laws hit a wall, and none of the questions are easily answered. Revolting against technology, not on the basis of exploitation which is where you have a point, but on the basis of aesthetic and artistic practice, just shows a limited understanding of art and freedom of art that should be roughlessly mocked. But maybe thats to be expected from people working in an industrialized creative complex, drawing Pokémon and Spiderman and Fantasy-Dragons all day for a buck and then wondering why their jobs are automatized away. On the other hand we have hucksters trying to claim land on a latent space that has been assembled from the collective art history and who try to sell prompts and who think they own something there. These bullshit artists should be mocked just as roughless and maybe even more so than people who mistake crafting skills for artistic vision. So yeah, I’m having a blast.

• Collin Burns (Opens in a new window) et al developed a lie detector for Large Language Models (Opens in a new window) that can find out what an AI knows, independent from its output. This might be a solution to get AI-models to be reliable in tasks where reliability is imperative (software-engineering, driving).

• “AI playground for new Rick and Morty storyboards”: Rick and Mortify (Opens in a new window)

• I want an All Seeing Lemon (Opens in a new window)

• A decent man from the subtle arts of displaying honor and dignity: A man won the legal right to not be 'fun' at work (Opens in a new window) after refusing to embrace 'excessive alcoholism' and 'promiscuity'.

• Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders (Opens in a new window): Toxoplasma Gondii is so fascinating. It reproduces by infecting mice who become fearless against cats. They eat them, and the parasite spreads, while also infecting the cat. Humans get the parasite from their house pets and become extroverted assholes and businesskaspers. We have no clue about how our world changed with the adoption of cats as pets and we have no clue about how our world changed due to a brain parasite, but its very likely that a lot of our shitty behavior is parasite driven. Keep in mind that toxoplasma gondii is not the only microbe living in a symbiotic relationship with you and keep in mind that, if you have a cat, you most likely have that brain parasite in your head. Its very, very common.

• Gifaanisqatsi (Opens in a new window) - a random Koyaanisqatsi generator

• Pokle - A daily poker puzzle (Opens in a new window)

• Stranger Things X Butcher Billy Trading Cards Series on Behance (Opens in a new window)

• Infinite LEGO Domino Machine (World Record) (Opens in a new window)

• Infinite, recursive Game of Life (Opens in a new window)

• AI dream analysis (Opens in a new window)

• Elon Musk and AOC finally worked out their differences.  The chemistry these two have is crazy. (Opens in a new window)

• If PRETTY WOMAN starred WILLEM DAFOE.   Jesus H. Christ. (Opens in a new window)