Joe Morse

It is not a guard tower watching us, but a garish carousel of ever changing images, with text shout outs, emojis, reels, and notifications. We mistake our swipes, taps, and thumb texting as agency and action, rather than the sad pacing of zoo animals in their cage.

In a year that I would like to forget. This is a highlight to be remembered-working with Tom Brown on Racewknd RQ1 magazine.

A World of Extraordinary People If creativity is solved, we are doomed.

Invention and creativity have not been solved. They are not found in an algorithm, but they certainly can be lost by them. A.I. will not wipe us out, it will replace the art and culture that has bound us together with an ersatz transactional spectacle.

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The driverless artist. They are convinced of the superiority of their tools. They see our brains as wetwork computers, grey matter can be created as an algorithm. In their reductive lens, we have been shrunk down to fit within the frame of data and computation. I refuse to see us in such puny terms.

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.

We have created a technology to fill every one of our screens and it doesn’t care about us at all, is that just a reflection of who we are? What is a culture built on that replaces human engagement with attention capture and mindless getting through the day.

Much of my Substack writing is dedicated to the essential need for human creativity. Text to image A.I. is a reductive commercial product that doesn’t extend human creativity but rather commodifies and blunts its power for transcendence. Just a successful parasite.

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 …

Truth is not owned by anyone. The image shows a woman making a choice between 2 men. The title is This Bud is not for you.

Fearless truth warriors ‘are just asking questions’ and hurl their truth bombs at the straw dogs barking up the wrong tree. These seers of certainty, offer us their zero sum prescriptions for what ails us, and a new world ruled by a two faced coin—-winner or loser. More on my Substack.

The weather seems better here.

Giri/Haji aka Duty/Shame was a brilliant Netflix show that sadly was too good for its audience…1 season only. I portrayed the brothers for my Crime Seen series. More at joemorse.com

Hello. I X’ed out X today and I think I may have gained some brain cells back. I wrote on my Substack on Saturday about the flickering light of our Promethean digital platforms, they have not been the light to lead us as we stumble in the dark. I hope the blue sky promised here offers more.