"Expose for the shadows and the light will take care of itself," this is a profound art-photography insight *Only nobody with a photography app ever "exposes" for anything

*I often feel that a lot of my "technology-art" critical problems are photography's critical problems -- the first contraption-centric "technology-art." *However, the photography that photography-critics used to write about is not what photography is now

*Sometimes they still make elementary physics mistakes, but the image-generators are fantastically better than they were. Look at the expert treatment of those water reflections, and the grime, and the hair *By the 20th-C computer-graphics standards of Utah teapots, that is off-the-charts good

*The all have the same teeth *It's an easy fix, but it's a quirk of the system *Also slopped-people lack natural blemishes on their faces. A scar, smeared lipstick, a mascara mess, those read as glitches to the generator

*Elena Vazquez, Marcus Chen and their colleague Elara Voss

*Look, science fiction was invented in the 1920s, while libraries have been burning-down ever since Sumeria *However, Artificial Intelligences getting burned down by remotely-targeted robot missiles, that's an exciting new trend *Is this situation some fantasist's "anxiety," no it isn't

*I would agree that modern AI-models “reveals something about what it means ‘to think’.” However, figuring out that the nature of that "something" is gonna involve oodles more of denialism *Who's denying whom if you tell the Pope that your model has a soul

*Some denialist culture-wars have some real staying-power *Like, for instance, churchgoing people with immortal souls, who can't ever be a bunch of evolved monkeys

"Wow, good thing that those flying leopards eating the faces of those Russian data centers would never eat the face of any data center anywhere near me-and-mine"

"How many expensive Russian data centers could possibly get blown up?!" *Well, the Chinese have it figured that there are kind of a lot of them

*Considerable gloating from the pro-Ukraine contingent that "YandexGPT" is getting bombed *You're not supposed to be "cruel to Claude," but blasting an AI into a smoldering heap with cruise missiles, that seems to be A-OK