Everything tagged Generative AI

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Mass-Delusion

When good enough isn’t actually enough.

26 July 2026
Living in Generated Reality

Honing focus in the eye of the information storm.

26 February 2026
The Clankers’ Paradox

You can’t prompt-engineer your way out of a panic.

24 February 2026
This is Slopaganda

Every movement has its visual style. Today’s autocrats are generating it with AI.

4 July 2025
Beginning with a Conclusion

Creating stories and images to match what you already believe.

17 October 2024
Free-for-All Fakery

Google’s Reimagine tool makes manipulation so easy that reality itself is at stake.

26 August 2024
Voice Your Concerns

Why does it feel so viscerally wrong to copy a voice?

21 May 2024
Zombie Internet

Facebook on autopilot.

18 May 2024
Don’t Blame the AI, Blame the Humans

Ethnically diverse Nazis and our collective contribution.

7 March 2024
The Singularity, but Not Like We Thought

The chilling prospect of non-consensual AI pornography.

5 September 2023
The Flipside of Fake

Spotting AI aesthetics in real life.

10 July 2023
Fake Can’t be Just As Good

Embracing constraints is a good thing.

10 July 2023
Flood the Zone with Shit

How populists overwhelm the discourse.

10 July 2023
Towards a Classification of Midjourney’s Uncanny Valley

Telltale signs that an image is generated.

4 July 2023
Banal Creations

From Samsung’s fake moons to a bigger question: What is real photography?

13 April 2023
AI Inflection Points

AI isn’t growing into pop culture, it’s making leaps.

13 April 2023
False Memory

Remember the Great Cascadia Earthquake of 2001?

27 March 2023
The Existential Loneliness of Prompt Engineering

When creativity becomes mere prodding.

18 March 2023
The Silver Halides in Everything

Externalities dissolved in water.

18 March 2023
Algorithmic Intuition

Why AI can’t replace human taste.

12 February 2023
Algorithmic Decay

What’s lost in the noise of artificial art.

12 February 2023
All the Faces

Even when Midjourney gets it wrong, the results might still be worthwhile.

16 January 2023
The AI Will Take It From Here

Can generative writing emulate my style?

7 October 2022