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Various thi.ng updates, bug fixes, additions and new version of https://github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing/ — now fully compatible with current Zig v0.14.1
On a more diary/devlog note: I also updated several of my Zig based work-in-progress art pieces to the latest version (some of them not touc…

Exploring the Usage of Generative AI for Group Project-Based Offline Art Courses in Elementary Schools
Zhiqing Wang, Haoxiang Fan, Shiwei Wu, Qiaoyi Chen, Yongqi Liang, Zhenhui Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16874

Exploring the Usage of Generative AI for Group Project-Based Offline Art Courses in Elementary Schools
The integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in K-6 project-based art courses presents both opportunities and challenges for enhancing creativity, engagement, and group collaboration. This study introduces a four-phase field study, involving in total two experienced K-6 art teachers and 132 students in eight offline course sessions, to investigate the usage and impact of GenAI. Specifically, based on findings in Phases 1 and 2, we developed AskArt, an interactive interface that…

But here’s the thing: anyone could make music •before• gen AI. Some more skilled or more artistically successful than others, sure! But that’s not the point. •Doing it• is the point. •Living it• is the point.
A product that promises to generate it for you so that you neither do it nor live it is antithetical to the point, is hostile to the idea of art itself.
(Note: that’s exactly what the artists in the OP are •not• doing! They are all grabbing the AI and actively •doing• and •living• while poking at the curious new object.)
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Why use hyperlinking if you can create videos recording screens recording screens, just to be able to document other people documenting your own work. The modern internet is just sooo amazing!
#Actiniaria #GenerativeArt

Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-a…

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Kalshi debuted an AI-generated ad during the NBA finals. The creator behind the ad said it only took two to three days to make using Google Veo 3.

Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-a…

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Kalshi debuted an AI-generated ad during the NBA finals. The creator behind the ad said it only took two to three days to make using Google Veo 3.

RAGtifier: Evaluating RAG Generation Approaches of State-of-the-Art RAG Systems for the SIGIR LiveRAG Competition
Tim Cofala, Oleh Astappiev, William Xion, Hailay Teklehaymanot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14412

RAGtifier: Evaluating RAG Generation Approaches of State-of-the-Art RAG Systems for the SIGIR LiveRAG Competition
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enriches Large Language Models (LLMs) by combining their internal, parametric knowledge with external, non-parametric sources, with the goal of improving factual correctness and minimizing hallucinations. The LiveRAG 2025 challenge explores RAG solutions to maximize accuracy on DataMorgana's QA pairs, which are composed of single-hop and multi-hop questions. The challenge provides access to sparse OpenSearch and dense Pinecone indices of the Fineweb 10BT dat…

Voguing, Edo Japan style.
Seen at the Hiroshige exhibition at the British Museum.
#art #japan

"Here is the thing: the video describes, at an excruciatingly slow pace (at least by the standards of our generation’s TikTok-formatted brains), with the terms and phraseology of 1968, and during no less than one and a half hours, the very computer you are using to read this article. Yes, the one on your lap or on your desk."
https://

Doug Engelbart
As in any human group, there are certain pilgrimages, certain rites of passage that all software developers apparently must go through. They are various and equally anecdotical: to compile and boot their own Linux kernel; to read "The Art of Computer Programming" in its entirety (and then send their CV to Bill Gates); to give a presentation in a conference; and finally, to sit through the whole duration of "The Mother of All Demos", the recording of the unavoidable presentation made by Douglas …

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation