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The Princess Influencer: A Fable of the AI Future
I recently had a great time making my first narrative video using images generated in Midjourney. Midjourney has the potential to democratize the world of comics and comic-style videos by empowering those with good imaginations but limited artistic skills. There are a few limitations in the current version I hope will be addressed. The biggest problem […]
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I’m Dating a Model
I’ve been dating a model. A mental model. We’re inseparable. And so cute! We finish each other’s sentences and stuff. It’s true love! Unfortunately, I keep getting so caught up in our torrid inner love affair that I forget that my perception of the world is mainly based on fictional narratives. I lose touch with […]
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Embracing the Weird
When people think of AI-generated images, “weird” is one of the first words that come to mind. That’s not a bad thing. As a matter of fact, the weirdness is what I love best. Not just the deliberately odd combinations of styles, characters, and periods. But the unexpected bizzaro strangeness of unforeseen results. The best […]
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The Court of Public Opinion
This is the start of a new series, visualizing some of my aphorisms with Generative AI images.
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Biblical Creation Story as GenDI Text Prompts?
/Imagine prompt: Let There Be Light Genesis 1:2 Revised Edition It would be fair to interpret the biblical creation story as a series of short text prompts. Let’s call it Generative DI (Deity Intelligence.) “Let there be light” is just two words in Hebrew. How’s that for efficiency? The comic below is a little riff […]
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Side Show Romance
Jasper the tiny clown sped through the circus tent to get a better view of the beautiful new contortionist. Liza moved with ease and grace, her lithe body twisting in ways that seemed impossible. Jasper had always been shy around women because of his diminutive size. But after the show, he mustered up the courage […]
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Digital Folk Artists
Folk Art: Art and objects made by people who are not artists, using styles and materials from where they live The Museum Network I was very involved in the Second Life art community twenty years ago. Most of the people I met there were actively producing images, videos, and creative writing for the first time in […]
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The Fall of the Creative Class
The creative class fell less than a decade after the rise of generative AI. Designers and photographers. Writers and composers. Actors and musicians. One by one, they succumbed to ever-more advanced software. By 2030, an intern in a movie producer’s office using AI tools could create a blockbuster movie in hours. By 2040 the combination […]
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My Outsourced Memory
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” Marshall McLuhan Those of us who depend on modern technology to externalize memory storage are just the latest iteration of a long tide of human adaptation. Strategies to make the most of our biological capabilities were developed over countless generations in oral cultures. The invention of writing […]
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Broken Metaverse Dreams
In 2011, I gave an optimistic opening keynote speech at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference to 500 educators from around the world. At the time, I thought seamless integration between Second Life and OpenSim would extend to other platforms via open standards. I believed Web 3D would integrate with Web 2.0, and […]
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