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[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

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@ContraPoints California was once part of New Spain and Mexico. The original Spanish-speaking settlers of California were called Californios. They were isolated from the rest of Mexico and developed some degree of independence. After the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), California annexed it.

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I want to thank metamask for buying me lunch in the west village - I had forgotten about bitcoin pizza day until l’industrie announced free slices outside my favorite beer joint (where I can pay with blackbird/aka crypto). I guess metamask is sponsoring it to promote the nu card.

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@coolscorpian @AMAZlNGNATURE prolly like 5 years ago idk im not a historian bro

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"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth." — Albert Bartlett

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@IsekaiMeta Any updates?

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@RockNRoLL_85 https://t.co/fi686FAwNq

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@MikeLeonCraft1 @creepydotorg This one is great

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@DavePavlikeni @historyrock_ Without a doubt

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@Ashy_slashee She kicked this guys butt
Wasn’t his name Ash too

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@Mia18571851 @anime_twits This👆🏻and the baron too

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@HighyieldHarry Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gradunza

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@anime_twits Tru dat

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@iantheCROAT Umm
Guess again that’s tiny Tim and Goldie hawn 1960

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@DannyDrinksWine Jin roh - wolf brigade

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@kikillo @dreamsdreamsnft Keepin’ those dreams alive

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Chiang addresses a very real barrier that AI art will have to break through: the limitation of agency in using models that are constructed by others, very often by corporations developing commercial products to make the creation of art as easy as possible.

The premise of his writing is that good art requires decisions, lots of decisions at every scale, and there is much truth in this. Do artists using AI processes have to sacrifice the integrity of nuanced decision-making?

Artists can enrich the amount of decisions they're able to apply in such processes in a number of ways such as constructing narratives and manipulating outputs, but even these approaches have a hard limit as to how much influence they can have over the set of decisions, since the decision models themselves were designed by someone else. With these models becoming larger and larger, and more ubiquitous, we run the danger that all art will soon become homogeneous and represent the models themselves more than the artists.

There are several artists who have posed different approaches to this dilemma, of whom Chiang seems to be unaware.

Herndon and Dryhurst for their Whitney Biennale piece "xhairymutantx" used AI to make a conceptual statement about agency in the age of AI. They fine-tuned a diffusion model on images of Herndon and released it into the wild in order to interrogate whether we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate. This is not only art, but art that is vital to our times.

Harold Cohen, with whom I was lucky enough to discuss this at length, made multiple AI systems to create art. Interestingly, he disliked machine learning as he thought that it was more of a filter that merely transformed one set of digital images into another at the press of a button. In this he probably would have agreed with Chiang. But he was more interested in creating systems that made actual decisions to create art from nothing. He wanted his software, AARON, to start with nothing but a set of rules, and create imagery from those rules. In essence he was interested in AI sculpting decision-making processes, perhaps of the type that Chiang is bemoaning the absence of.

Does Chiang even realize that there are many artist focused on this kind of generative AI?

In order to address the parts of Chiang's critique that I consider to be valid, I'm making a bunch of tools to help artists create AI models where their own decisions are key and will be releasing them over the next year. And I'm always around to help anyone that might be interested in pursuing this route.

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@RuleWhole Thank you
I’m ready now

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@ronnieVFX LUX!