Paul Longhurst

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@BedsNthantsBC Clouded Yellow Salcey Forest Solar Farm 21st July 2026

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

AI can now generate images more beautiful than anything most humans could make. Sam Altman just explained why nobody cares.

Altman: “The value that people put on that effectively rounds to zero.”

Not less valuable. Zero.

A flawlessly generated AI image, technically superior to almost anything a human could produce, valued at nothing.

When visual perfection becomes instantly available to everyone, it stops being scarce.

And when it stops being scarce, it stops being valuable.

The scarcity that gave art its worth was never the beauty. It was the human who made it.

Altman: “Without the person effectively signing their name to it, we seem to not care.”

That sentence is the entire shift compressed into one line.

We don’t consume art. We consume the person behind it.

The struggle. The intention. The specific human consciousness that decided this particular thing should exist.

AI can replicate the output. It cannot replicate the origin.

Altman points out that if an artist uses AI as a tool but still has something they were trying to express, the work retains its value.

The human intention is the product. The image is just how it arrives.

Remove the person and the beauty becomes noise.

This is what nobody building AI art tools fully absorbed. They optimized for the output and assumed the output was what people valued.

It wasn’t. It was never the pixels.

It was always the person.

AI isn’t going to replace human artists. It’s going to do something more disorienting.

It’s going to make technical skill irrelevant and force the entire market to pay for something that was always there but never had to be named.

Presence. Intention. Proof that a human consciousness cared enough to make this particular thing.

Abundance makes perfection free.

Meaning becomes the only scarcity worth paying for.

And meaning can’t be automated. Because meaning requires a consciousness choosing to say something specific to someone specific for reasons that matter.

The artists who survive won’t be the most technically gifted.

They’ll be the most undeniably human.

AI gave the world infinite art and proved that what we actually want is irreplaceable.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Scottish comedian Lewis MacLeod just did a Donald Trump impression so accurate it feels like evidence.

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@mikecane @davetrott I think it is more inclined to copy and learn from what the world does rather than just what we do

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@PetsatHome Extremely shocked- just opened a box of Gourmet sachets from my online subscription order from Pets at Home. The box was damaged and had been sellotaped. Inside smelled with two ripped open sachets and mess everywhere. Suggest people don’t buy online from Pets @ Home

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@UPS Just complained about UPS and their response team have liked my post. What planet are they on. No attempt to solve my problem!

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@UPS I have spent an hour trying to change my delivery time. Your website is useless. Your App is useless and no contact details- brilliant- you are delivering a computer to me today and I won’t be in - I cannot believe you create so many hurdles for delivery change what next?

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

What’s the most controversial name change in British history?

Opal Fruits to Starburst, perhaps?

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@potatodoctor @JoJoFromJerz Lost in Space

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@Avis customer care is useless - using a call centre to deal with my time sensitive problem. They are not equipped, not reading emails properly, pretending to escalate it. I asked to speak to Avis themselves, but they don’t even acknowledge this. Frankly they couldn’t care less

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@lenovo_UKI my think station died over a week ago. It is under warranty I have a case number but everyone I talk to at Lenovo cannot get an egineer to visit The warranty is useless do not think a warranty means Lenovo will honour it.

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@potatodoctor Hope you are making a good recovery though Glenn. Maybe you need to focus on swimming to get fit again. Take care.

[Brian Moore @brianmoore666]

What is the point of a quiz in Downing Street anyway; they never answer any fucking questions?

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

Breaking News: Russian army retreats from Ukrainian border after massive ambush. The Russian commander has reported that they were overwhelmed by the number of cakes that the Ukrainian army deployed without warning. #cakes #boris #no10party

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@ChrisGPackham @FelixAracrisque Just saying how brave you are Chris and thank you for all of your great work - hero

[EJ MartIs It All Better Yet? @Emma_JaneMartin]

Just been sent this by my uncle 🙃🥲

[Stevie Martin @5tevieM]

when you need to confirm you're not a robot

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@potatodoctor Would we have bought vinyl though? Nothing better than getting back from Southend on a Saturday and putting a new purchase on the turntable (plus studying the sleeve for 3 hours).

[Paul Longhurst @paullonghurst]

@potatodoctor @OnceStteven A bit - nothing serious. Sometimes I wish we had YouTube back in the 70s