nick susi

Forget Cannes. The only award I’m interested in seeing which agency wins is most money spent on least real-world impact. The competition is fierce!

so pumped to finally have this

thank you @joshuacitarella.bsky.social & Do Not Research for including me in this edition

Newer mediums like social media & AI have stripped content of experiential depth, flattening it into pure information. A meme, a TikTok or pod at 2x speed, a book made into a summary by LLM. In film or gaming, the content is the experience. Now, the experience is the feed itself.

SOCIAL MEDIA IS A VIDEO GAME

LESS ESSAYS ABOUT WORLDBUILDING

MORE ACTUAL WORLDS BEING BUILT

PLEASE AND THANK YOU

“Listen up buddy you’re just one clever portmanteau away from becoming a billionaire philosopher”

JOB SECURITY FROM AI FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE

on acorns, memory and identity

We are quick to wag our fingers at machines 

But we forget the ghosts of our own design 

Human behavior, cultural values, systems of power

Which sounds more like a question of how AI tools are used vs if they’re used at all.

Part of what I’m hearing in your point about vision vs labor feels related to Vilem Flusser’s work around technical images, and drawing a distinction between actively programming tools vs passively functioning on behalf of them.

Re craft, I feel like part of this technological shift is challenging the norms around perception of art and asking, are all artisans artists and are all artists artisans?

It seems like we’re heading down a path that is not dissimilar from the current state of consumer preference of some opting for conscious consumption (non GMO, fine dining, etc) and those that don’t care and will eat anything. And your example here about fashion.

If getting to an excellent output from an LLM takes skill, technical knowledge and expertise, and if further editing and manipulating that output with other non AI tools requires skill, technical knowledge and expertise, where does the artist value start or stop?

It seems like there’s a lot of fear about AI tools replacing human creativity but idk that there’s enough curiosity or exploration of how it augments a human creative process. Is this art? youtu.be/YGyvLlPad8Q?...

Say more here

How do you know how all content you see online is made to make that evaluation?

Does time and effort always automatically equal artistic value or meaning?

CUCO - Love Letter To LA - Worfklow Breakdown This is a psychedelic love letter to Los Angeles that transforms familiar streets into kaleidoscopic dreamscapes. Working with director Paul Trillo and artist Paul…

How much AI tool usage is too much / how much human intervention is not enough? Is quality of final output the factor of whether or not the use of AI tools is ultimately accepted? vimeo.com/1062934927

YouTube video by IGN The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time x Studio Ghibli Inspired Fan Film

Full short film here: youtu.be/iio_ZOS2T3s?...

Last year, someone on YouTube spent 600+ hours over 4 months on Unreal Engine to create a Legend Of Zelda short film in the style of Studio Ghibli. If that same person used AI tools to make the same short film in half the time, do you feel differently about it?

What technology makes easier to replicate and spread, will replicate and spread.

on magic and form

via @tobyshorin.bsky.social

music hardware is a fashion accessory

via @kleinkleinklein.bsky.social

on AI, chance & aleatoric music

on AI, mosaic and tapestry

People are saying everything feels like hypergambling now. I will add - social media feels like it has become a casino not for financial but for social capital. A game where people place bets with hot takes, where bigger risks could have bigger rewards, but the house always wins.

On the Internet, you can just say stuff

The ability to participate is not the ability to control

The vibe rn

Everything is a staged, mediated pseudoreal spectacle, performed for status

Participation is consumption

The best story wins

Throughout history, people always call new unfamiliar tech “magic.” So it’s interesting to see builders like Google, Shopify, Canva refer to their own AI products as magic. But there’s something about military tech builders referring to itself as magic that hits different.