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OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.

On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

Deepseek vs OpenAI got me like

When the bubble pops, and it will, you’re not just looking at a few Johnny-come-lately companies shuttering. This is a load-bearing delusion. The entire tech industry is fucked because they all bought in, every VC firm bought in, investors have everything in it. They need to make you like it.

A miniature diorama of Arnold Bocklin's Isle of the Dead, seen from the front. A boat with 2 mysterious figures, sliding on dark green water, approaches an island composed of rocks and cypress tree.

I made a mini Isle of the dead!
It's a mix of hand-made stuff and 3d printed details.

The 3d printed architecture stuff (barely visible) was made in blender, while the boat and figures are a remix of collected STLs including a virgin Mary freebie

Y’all got any more of those decades where nothing happens

It’s Indigenous People’s Day in Canada today, so here’s some of my favourite formline pieces that I’ve done!!

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Twice a week now a Silicon Valley company issued a press release like, “We have invented a new technology. It’s only use is for crime. Accordingly, we are all now billionaires.”

One other vexing thing about this is that, because the label of AI has been slapped on these generative models, when the bubble bursts and investors get burned, any chance of actual progress towards meaningful AI will be set back a generation.

The f*cking AI 💩

Shadowheart stands in front of a scene of giant, purple wolfsbane flowers, holding a spear and dressed in a purple dress studded with celestial details

Art Nouveau Shadowheart, inspired by Mucha's 'The Iris' #Art

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Just a reminder :)

Jpeg loses fidelity and is correct for online publication only

Tiff does not lose fidelity but reads poorly on web browsers so it is correct for print only

RGB is for online, CMYK is for print

Highly saturated and luminous greens/cyan do not print.

My first question when doing writing editorial is some version of "tell me about what you want this to be, and what you're not sure is helping it be that" because it's not about making it more like my taste, it's about making it the best version of itself.

Photos of the authors mentioned above.

Free online genre writing workshops with Premee Mohamed, AC Wise, Sam Miller, Gabino Iglesias, Olivia Waite, and Sam J Miller via Zoom, this opportunity looks amazing (wonky link because the classes are listed individually): eastham.clamsnet.org/Union/Search...

#WritingCommunity #WritingWorkshops

Big wall hanging in my shop feltmistress.bigcartel.com/product/larg...

Beginning of article from Scientific American sowing a lovely orange-toned painting of a naked woman running with a spear

Beginning of an article reading "Even if you're not an anthropologist, you've probably encountered one of this field's most influential notions, known as Man the Hunter. The theory proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men carried this activity out to the exclusion of women. It holds that human ancestors had a division of labor, rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic duties. It assumes that males are physically superior to females and that pregnancy and child-rearing reduce or eliminate a female's ability to hunt. Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it's wrong."

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Screenshot of the "early cyber" aesthetic category on CARI

Screenshot of the "corporate grunge" aesthetic category on CARI

Screenshot of the "new wave tropical" aesthetic category on CARI

Screenshot of the "memphis-milano" aesthetic category on CARI

If you ever want to get lost in a fascinating archive of consumer aesthetic categories you forgot how clearly you remembered, or find some granular era-specific textural inspiration, the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute is an incredible rabbit hole: cari.institute/aesthetics

right?? he seems to love chaos and intrigue, so the neutral non-boring choice tends to win too

that you're reading the series!! you're so right it's a dense read, but is2g it has a formative niche in my brain, I'm so excited you're checking it out

ohmygodohmygodohmyGOD

pine!! I'm glad you're here 🫂

Always post

fashion illustrations of a version of Miss Piggy in modern casual wear

fashion illustrations of a version of Miss Piggy in modern casual wear

fashion illustrations of a version of Miss Piggy in modern casual wear

fashion illustrations of a version of Kermit as some sort of managerial guy wearing a staff jacket and lanyard

miss piggy drawings from a while ago, people seemed to really like these when I posted them on tumblr lol
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Honestly I never want to see the word "disrupt" used in the context of any specific industry because it inevitably means "destroy that sector's middle-class to more efficiently funnel money to the already-rich"

ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day OpenAI spends about $700,000 a day, just to keep ChatGPT going. The cost does not include other AI products like GPT-4 and DALL-E2. Right now, it is pulling through only because of Microsoft's $10 bil...

I knew this was coming. That is operational costs of $2.555 billion PER YEAR. The average salary for a technical writer in the US is $64k and they're doing well as far as professional writers go.