irene powder

illustrator and visual artist

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Artists shouldn't be asking AI to evaluate or judge their art. Art has fundamentals, but lives in how humans perceive it: unease, recognition, feelings you can't name on the spot. A model is trained to run statistics and return what sounds right. It'll never say your work is bad.

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Lisbon serves as a reminder that culture wins only if people go all out against the machine and keep their beliefs in ecosystems that prioritize people over products and art over tech. Thanks for listening to my rant and grateful for everyone's interest in my craft. News soon. ❤️

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The subtlety with tech is that it sells you a better, faster, tailored life. But power manifests as convenience precisely because if it announced itself it would be fought away. Instead of conquering us, they got us hooked to tech we think of as essential and irreplaceable.

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Many people love my work not because it says tech is bad but because it lights up the idea that progress stopped being about expanding ourselves and became about optimizing us into something easy to control. Many are starting to realize that better tech doesn’t mean better lives.

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Art I made about AI before AI could make art

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A broader goal for my career is people seeing the same amount of meaning as me in my work. I won't deliver cold, calculated, algo-optimized type of art. Every piece must exist for a reason. I want you to know there's something beyond mere commodification as the sole end goal.

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So many people place a higher value on AI opinions than on their loved ones, even on non-technical things. Loneliness epidemic. We are training ourselves to prefer the voice that always agrees, never tires or disappoints. Not the cyberpunk future I wanted, nor the one I deserve.

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Death, Taxes & Software Updates

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