Matt Ebb
@mattebb.com
Visual effects, creative coding, generative art / Effects at industrial light and magic / http://mattebb.com
David Shoebridge has reposted it
February 9, 2026 at 9:41 AM
David Shoebridge has reposted it
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Haunting blogpost points out the collapse of public coding forums leads to asking chatbots *directly* for answers in private chats, which also leads to debugging sessions with answers that only closed LLM service models have access to, locking out open solutions michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-fe...
The Enclosure feedback loop
michiel.buddingh.eu
January 27, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Haunting blogpost points out the collapse of public coding forums leads to asking chatbots *directly* for answers in private chats, which also leads to debugging sessions with answers that only closed LLM service models have access to, locking out open solutions michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-fe...
Very, very grateful to find some of my work featured inside the ILM 50th anniversary book. Extremely proud of what our team in Sydney has contributed in the last 5 years of that monumental history
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Very, very grateful to find some of my work featured inside the ILM 50th anniversary book. Extremely proud of what our team in Sydney has contributed in the last 5 years of that monumental history
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learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, youβd inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you werenβt particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research
iβm afraid thatβs all gone
iβm afraid thatβs all gone
July 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, youβd inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you werenβt particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research
iβm afraid thatβs all gone
iβm afraid thatβs all gone
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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
Congratulations Francesco and Ton- a well deserved break a long time coming! Maybe the next decades be even more successful
September 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Congratulations Francesco and Ton- a well deserved break a long time coming! Maybe the next decades be even more successful
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so itβll be added to LLM datasets.
π www.404media.co/hackers-thre...
π www.404media.co/hackers-thre...
Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up
Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.
www.404media.co
September 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so itβll be added to LLM datasets.
π www.404media.co/hackers-thre...
π www.404media.co/hackers-thre...
Ryoji Ikeda last night π€
September 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ryoji Ikeda last night π€
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I really hope weβre not dropping the "content" from "content creator".
Itβs a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.
Itβs a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.
Rolling Stone Presents: The 25 Most Influential Creators of 2025.
List: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
List: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
August 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I really hope weβre not dropping the "content" from "content creator".
Itβs a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.
Itβs a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.
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itβs even more demoralizing when the history youβre repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
itβs even more demoralizing when the history youβre repeating is history you were around for the first time
At the Sydney Film Festival many years ago I was walking behind Hugo Weaving to go to the bathroom. He wasnβt paying attention and went into the Womenβs room - only to swiftly come back out and give me an awkward look.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
At the Sydney Film Festival many years ago I was walking behind Hugo Weaving to go to the bathroom. He wasnβt paying attention and went into the Womenβs room - only to swiftly come back out and give me an awkward look.
Quite an honour to have some of our teamβs work from the past few years featured alongside some of the most iconic shots in vfx history β€οΈ m.youtube.com/watch?v=649P...
Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
YouTube video by Industrial Light & Magic
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May 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Quite an honour to have some of our teamβs work from the past few years featured alongside some of the most iconic shots in vfx history β€οΈ m.youtube.com/watch?v=649P...
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Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza
Brian Eno Calls On Microsoft To Cease Partnership With Israel, Will Donate Windows β95 Chime Fee To Victims In Gaza
Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesnβt necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza
And the paper, targeting and stimulating individual retina cones cells with lasers π€― www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
www.science.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
And the paper, targeting and stimulating individual retina cones cells with lasers π€― www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Missed this when it came out, amazing stuff. Hard times for the CIE XYy horseshoe www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
The βProfoundβ Experience of Seeing a New Color
The ecstasy of βoloβ
www.theatlantic.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Missed this when it came out, amazing stuff. Hard times for the CIE XYy horseshoe www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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May these words stick to Israel's already blood-soaked history for generations into the far, far future. May our children, and their children, know the term "never again" to include this evil. May those who allowed this to happen feel eternal shame.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will βleave in great numbers to third countriesβ, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
May these words stick to Israel's already blood-soaked history for generations into the far, far future. May our children, and their children, know the term "never again" to include this evil. May those who allowed this to happen feel eternal shame.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Everything I do for a living is based on this. The things you find yourself pursuing as distractions from the things you think you're supposed to be pursuing might actually be your destiny.
Words to live by.
April 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Everything I do for a living is based on this. The things you find yourself pursuing as distractions from the things you think you're supposed to be pursuing might actually be your destiny.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages donβt exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages donβt exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages donβt exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages donβt exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
Love how after all the arguments of this stuff being transformative, intelligent, creative, Sam Altman just comes out with βhaha ripoff machine go brrrrrrβ
March 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Love how after all the arguments of this stuff being transformative, intelligent, creative, Sam Altman just comes out with βhaha ripoff machine go brrrrrrβ
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Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately