@simplecubed.bsky.social
I think about this often. It was a wild west of creativity as well. Some amazing sites (remember microsites?) out there. Then everything got A/B tested and flattened to homogeneous soup.
05.04.2025 08:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Holy shit. Amazing to see.
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OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us
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oh did deepseek train on GPT-4 and llama? that's so sad. unfortunately it's transformative, also you can't prove it did, plus deepseek couldn't exist without it so we have to accept it.
to the Ai company investors, employees: don't worry about your future, i'm sure there'll be a UBI at some point
Hi Max I'm writing to you today as one of your constituents to express my concerns about the current IPO consultation on proposed changes to UK copyright law. For context, my name is Jon Lock and I am a writer of comics and games based in Cheltenham. My work has been featured in 2000AD Magazine (the home of Judge Dredd and other characters) and I've written for numerous videogames. At present, alongside my creative partner-in-crime Nich Angell, I'm working on a new children's graphic novel series for Pan Macmillan, due to hit shelves in 2026. These creative opportunities are the result of over a decade spent working as an independent comic creator, selling my books online, at conventions and in shops across the country. It's been a long, hard journey getting to this point, during which time I've also worked more conventional day jobs to make ends meet. It's only in the last two years that I've been able to go full-time with my writing - and even now, despite a publishing deal and the receipt of a National Lottery Project Grant, my creative career is a perilous one. Everything I've created over the years - all the toil, passion and heartache - has been supported by the simple, irrefutable reality that my work is my own, protected and enshrined in law. In a sector where money and security are hard to come by, the only things that are utterly, utterly mine, are my ideas.
A few years ago, the comic industry was bedevilled by NFTs, as every cryptocurrency grifter under the sun descended on creators in pursuit of a quick buck. We now face the latest existential threat to our careers: AI and the tech evangelists who insist it's the future, without ever explaining what shape this proposed future will take. The IPO consultation (which I am engaging with) suggests that there exists at present a terrible impasse between two equal and opposing forces: AI companies and creators. Creators need protection. AI companies need endless, free data to train their machines. AI companies can only get this data by breaking the law... and thus the law has to change. This is, at best, a gross distortion of the truth. AI is destroying the creative sector. It is as great a threat to hard-won careers and the very concept of human achievement as I can imagine. AI could have come for any job or sector on the planet, from accountancy to football coaching to Members of Parliament. Instead, it came for creatives - which suggests that, fundamentally, AI companies consider their output worth stealing.
Brexit has shattered our global reputation. I understand why governments are now desperately seeking for something - anything - to make us relevant again as a nation. Throwing our already struggling creative sector under the bus - and discarding our very spirit of innovation, inspiration and beauty in the process - is not the answer. It is in fact a gross betrayal of the people who have laboured in service of the UK's soft cultural power (its songs, its stories, its modern mythologies) for years, often for little to no reward. Destroying copyright law in a short-sighted attempt to court AI investment will feed an entire generation of creators to a machine that will in turn eat the future of anyone foolish enough to dream of something bigger. That's not looking forward. That's staring into the abyss. I will continue to engage with the IPO consultation. If you read this and feel concern or sympathy regarding this issue, I would please urge you to do everything in your power to fight this in Parliament, and speak up for the creators whose livelihoods are currently on the chopping block. Kind regards Jon Lock
I've written to my MP (@maxwilkinson.bsky.social) regarding the UK Government's consultation on proposed changes to copyright law to empower AI companies. I would urge you all to do the same AND engage in the consultation. Now, more than ever, you need to be heard.
My letter:
Some artists suggested that we pin a summary of Glaze, Nightshade & other projects here. Instead, I will point them to Melissa HeikkilΓ€'s article on our lab and projects. It is the definitive story of who we are, how we got here, and why we do what we do.
www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/1...
They can't get through at the art direction level, so they try to rot away our field's infrastructure by applying it where they know they'll get through, with the managerial class and exploiting oligopolies
We need more artist and creative magazines.
Start by jumping ship to Muddy Colors
Amon Tobin doing a Houdini breakdown was not on my bingo card.
05.12.2024 10:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love it. I once tried to build a spider walk setup similar to this but gave up in frustration. I might have to revisit, having seen this.
03.12.2024 20:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0QRT with your skull art
02.12.2024 22:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've just discovered Slow Horses as well. Gary Oldman is disgustingly good in it.
27.11.2024 08:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i will also die angry at the genAI crowd for deliberately causing the general public to conflate the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine with USEFUL forms of machine learning, like that wildfire early-detection system they're using around Kelowna now
27.11.2024 03:12 β π 775 π 254 π¬ 7 π 5"I can now say with absolute confidence that many AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers' workβ¦more than 53K movies and 85K TV episodes."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/opensubtitles-ai-data-set/680650/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Why isnβt AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people
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