My new @TEDTalks “The Light We Let In” has finally been published!! This is a talk about life for all humans, all ages, all belief systems.
Pls watch and RT!
https://t.co/ydKEP2vpSa
@jeremycowart I still have ~dozen. Bought many Block Queens for family and friends to introduce them to digital art and AR innovation. You are an inspiring artist @jeremycowart 🙌💥🙌
Still can’t believe it. Grateful for these behind the scenes photos… been thinking a lot about all the people I’ve worked with that we’ve lost. There’s quite a few. Photography is such a gift and i’m glad I have so much of my life documented in this way. ♥️
This is exactly why Anthropic pisses me off.
You can keep saying the watermark doesn’t change ownership, doesn’t identify the user, doesn’t affect quality, doesn’t add hidden characters, and won’t look any different to readers. Fine. But that is not the whole issue. The issue is that you are still marking work that a human being may have thought through, structured, argued, and emotionally meant, just because AI helped process it.
AI assistance is not authorship. If I wrote the idea, the argument, the meaning, the emotional core, and the final judgment, then it is my work. If Claude helped translate it, polish a sentence, or make it clearer, that does not suddenly make Claude the author. But a watermark absolutely changes how people perceive authorship. People are not going to say, “Claude may have been involved in processing this text.” They are going to say, “AI wrote this.”
And honestly, who the hell are you to do that to my writing? Who gave you the right to stamp your model’s involvement onto work that came from my thoughts, my experience, my voice, and my judgment? You can say it does not change ownership all you want, but socially, reputationally, and creatively, it absolutely changes how the work is read.
So fine. Do whatever you want. Build your watermarking system. Follow whatever framework you want. I’m not using Claude. Good luck.
I was just in Rome, Italy this month doing a collaboration with 40 teens from around the world. I tried "imagination portraits" where I used AI to create their imagination and then projected it onto their face. Can't wait to show you the results. Would you want to try this?
I shoot digitally but my process is unpredictable like film. I always have 8+ light setups firing randomly plus hundreds of backdrops changing every 0.1 seconds. Plus crap in front of the lens. Plus slow shutter speeds and camera shakes. The results? Unpredictable fun. Like film.
I've built a new tool that has made hundreds of people cry in the last 24 hours haha. Good tears, not bad. It's wild. Lmk if you want the link and I'll send it to you.