“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Reminder that the federal government was once the largest employer of Black women in the country.

DOGE fired so many Black women that it massively spiked their unemployment rate.

The government shutdown was already here, just not equally distributed.

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Not sure how I missed this, but on Friday we got a nice big win in the @aclu.org 's lawsuit against the NEA -- a permanent block on the agency enforcing Trump's "gender ideology" exec. order.

amazing

Personal news! Since I just got my ID and everything, guess it's finally ok to announce that I am the new Guest Curator for Art and Technology at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. Over the top happy about this.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Klobuchar at the Senate Judiciary Chatbot Harms hearing: "So your son was continually engaged with a chatbox from Character A1, is that right?"

yeah but it's also just straight classism. their daughters are precious angel baby dolls. those other daughters are trash.

Everybody read this great conversation between Tim Miller (one of the Plaintiffs in the NEA 4 case ) and Adam Odsess-Rubin (from Nat'l Queer Theater, one of the Plaintiffs in the current NEA lawsuit). #aclu

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Right -- as I understand it they don't have to destroy their current models. But they will not have access to these works for training any models in the future.

Nope! The settlement terms also require Anthropic to destroy their illegal copies. (See Section II D of the filing.)

what a noble beast

Artists! Send your AI stories to Brian!

Schumer's office picking up right now at 212-486-4430.

finally found the song of the summer

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When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself. Censorship has taken hold at the Smithsonian. I refused to play along.” —Amy Sherald

This is a form of child abuse.

"A.i." damages people's ability to think critically, robs people of the joy and human experience of creating art, and exposes them to propaganda controlled by fascist billionaires.

Obscene.

Do not let your kids participate in this. Yell at anyone who pushes it.

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rugged individual surprised to find she lives in a society

I don't even need a god that's good at spelling. But I do need a god that knows things about life that aren't on the internet.