regardless of a myriad of other AI discourse talking points i'm not touching with a 10 ft pole, i think it should always be disclosed when i'm looking at something AI generated. like that's a basic level of societal courtesy, right. AI images more than any new technology that has changed the course of humanity seem to be inseparable from a purposeful obfuscation of their origin. the gimmick is to deceive human perception, their entire purpose is to make you believe you are looking at something created by sentience. AI is at its core a tool for deception and i mean that as a neutral statement. it's a mimic, a pantomime. impersonation. and that is, ethics aside, annoying as all fuck

James Sant, "Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle", ca. 1850

Olivia Hussey photographed by Barry Bregman, c. 1974.

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One of the best stories humanity ever produced was a draft of a rewrite of the Epic of Gilgamesh written by a Ecuadorian poet in 1935. It was tossed into a fireplace by an angry boy and lost forever. Another of humanity's best was told 65,000 years ago and was overheard by a small tribe of embarked Neanderthals boating down a river in what is now northern Georgia. A short woman at the bank scrubbed a wooden idol in the water and sang an ancient tale in an unknown language. These two are eclipsed by everything produced by two brothers at the coast of what is now Cameroon between 503 BC and 490 BC, which they shared with some family and friends, and were beloved by everyone except a sour uncle.

The thing about Timmy Chalamet is that he’s truly a great actor and he even has good taste in projects and he’s not even overexposed when you calibrate for how overexposed all that group of 25-30 year old big stars are……however something is still off. any time he gets cast in something it feels like that movie instantly turns into a parody of a movie. I cannot explain this

1. Joan of Arc, 1865, by John Everett Millais.

2. Kate Bush in Joanni

by Tammy Ascher

unfortunately if Arthur Conan Doyle was alive today he would spread misinformation in a weekly podcast

there are literally worse things than being in a saw trap like for instance openly expressing that you have wants and needs and are a real person

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) — dir. Franco Zeffirelli

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1968 Acrylic on watercolor paper mounted n hardboard Whatman 1948: GLAND J WHATMAN 1948 MOULD MA 39 9/16 x 25 5/8 in. (100.5 x 65.1 cm) Estate/Inventory Number1236.68 National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.255. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

[Mary Magdalene in the Cave, 1868.]

my parents: we’re not trying to discourage you from anything but *most downputting string of words you’ve ever heard in your life*

i think that people should start using “in poor taste” as a descriptor again given it is often the most applicable and clearest phrase when discoursing about media and analysis; sometimes a piece of art isn’t actually THE most problematic thing of all time is is. ​just in poor taste (not JUST in poor taste as a reductive take on potential harm but/and as in regardless of intent the impact is this was an offensive or stupid take/choice)