I keep on thinking about this so often, now mostly about how the word has been co-opted & abused by contemporary "AI"... Just refound the link (from 2012):
Generative vs generated
https://www.anomalogue.com/2012/05/01/generative-vs-generated/
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"Experiences of Academics, Graduates, and Undergraduates in Using Generative AI in Research (Un)Ethically and (Ir)Responsibly: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Synthesis"
https://doi.org/10.1080/10572317.2026.2626122
Nvidia says game developers have full "artistic control over DLSS 5's effects", following backlash alleging that the AI upscaling tech altered source material (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/soft…
"Nous estimons qu'Š ce stade de son développement, les risques liés Š l'utilisation de l'IA générative dans l'éducation des enfants l'emportent sur ses avantages. Cela s'explique en grande partie par le fait que les risques liés Š l'IA sont de nature différente de ses avantages, c'est-Š-dire que ces risques compromettent le développement fondamental des enfants et peuvent empêcher la concrétisation des avantages."
The "GenAI" buzzword has been astroturfed to confuse the uninitiated between generative AI and general AI.
❝Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:
● Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
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Proc3D: Procedural 3D Generation and Parametric Editing of 3D Shapes with Large Language Models
Fadlullah Raji, Stefano Petrangeli, Matheus Gadelha, Yu Shen, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Gang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.12234
arXiv:2601.12234v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating 3D models has traditionally been a complex task requiring specialized expertise. While recent advances in generative AI have sought to automate this process, existing methods produce non-editable representation, such as meshes or point clouds, limiting their adaptability for iterative design. In this paper, we introduce Proc3D, a system designed to generate editable 3D models while enabling real-time modifications. At its core, Proc3D introduces procedural compact graph (PCG), a graph representation of 3D models, that encodes the algorithmic rules and structures necessary for generating the model. This representation exposes key parameters, allowing intuitive manual adjustments via sliders and checkboxes, as well as real-time, automated modifications through natural language prompts using Large Language Models (LLMs). We demonstrate Proc3D's capabilities using two generative approaches: GPT-4o with in-context learning (ICL) and a fine-tuned LLAMA-3 model. Experimental results show that Proc3D outperforms existing methods in editing efficiency, achieving more than 400x speedup over conventional approaches that require full regeneration for each modification. Additionally, Proc3D improves ULIP scores by 28%, a metric that evaluates the alignment between generated 3D models and text prompts. By enabling text-aligned 3D model generation along with precise, real-time parametric edits, Proc3D facilitates highly accurate text-based image editing applications.
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reminder that no matter how funny that translator may be, generative AI is still awful and immoral and Kagi kinda sucks balls too[1]. thank you for your attention
1. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/
Sowohl die Begeisterung über generative KI als auch der kulturelle wie technische und klimatechnische Aufschrei sind zur Zeit weiterhin groß.
Wir sollten uns Gedanken machen, was nach dem Crash in den rauchenden Trümmern überlebt und was Politik und AI-Firmen auf dem Weg dahin alles an Schaden anrichten können. Denn wir als Gesellschaft werden lernen mit KI¹ umzugehen, uns zu ihr zu verhalten, und das wird ähnlich schrecklich wie mit dieser „Digitalisierung“. Der Großteil dieser sogena…
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyr…
Okay, this must absolutely have been made with some kind of generative AI, but it's not pretending to be real, it's hella funny/deadly serious and just superb. (I especially love the tough walrus smoking a cigar while driving a fishing boat 😂 ) Kudos to the makers!
Even at an extraordinarily smart event as #FOSSBackstage , people keep asking "Yeah but couldn't we do this [task that requires care, understanding and commitment] with generative AI?" and I am f*ing sick of it. If the task could not have been automated before the advent of "AI", then it should not be automated now. Just be a decent person put in the human work alrea…
On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI.
It’s a pilot module for a planned online certificate on generative AI; would count as credit toward that graduate credential. Open to anyone with a BA.
"What I’m saying is generative AI is a deeply expensive edging machine, but for your life."
Garbage Day nails it.
(Original title: Generative AI is an expensive edging machine)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-an-expensive-ed…
Generative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.
What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.
Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.
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I wish we had more people writing more sophisticated concerns about the harms of AI.
"Slop" criticism is important because I think many of us feel we are being gaslit into believing that generative AI is currently creating quality creative output, while Al (henceforth Alfred) is overwhelmingly creating mediocre quality creative work.
Every past winter, Alfred survives in a more focused and refined form. Eliza was a toy chatbot of the 1960s, but what emerged from that is…
'It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff “with AI,” informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.' Sonja Drimmer on 🔥on Art Forum
https://www.artforum.com/features/generative-ai-st…
#Firefox führt ab Version 148 eine neue Einstellung ein, mit der Nutzer alle aktuellen und zukünftigen generativen #AI-Funktionen im Browser blockieren können.
Alternativ lassen sich einzelne Features wie #Übersetzungen
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology.
'Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,' Hegseth said in a speech at Musk’s space fl…
New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.
“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com
I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)
Thank you GitHub!
https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01…
It’s pretty “funny” that the generative AI companies seem to think their tools telling people to kill themselves is a bigger PR fiasco than allowing their tools to help commit war crimes
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par
Personally invested in authorities facing consequences for using generative AI to document "findings" to support decisions, and then lying about it.
(Even if I don't think the decision itself was unreasonable.)
https://www.theguardian…
isn't it crazy how I can write an essay with a pen and paper or a typewriter or a computer and it still sounds like me but the second I copy-and-paste a wikipedia article it sounds different? what gives? I thought plagiarism was just another tool?
Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/peacock-expand…
Good article about that there is more then just Generative AI, where all the hype is, but that we are making great and steady progress in the field of predictive AI.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/1
I wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics
I'm already seeing artists leaning into their strengths, areas where generative AI is weak. For example, the last three artists I've contacted for paid work have ghosted me.
"No AI slop here! I'm merely exploring generative music and video!"
Concept artists give informed critiques of using GenAI to concept. Fav quote:
“When I show someone a rough sketch they see it differently than I do. They’re not seeing the sketch, they’re seeing the potential for what the sketch could be through their own taste and experiences, and it sparks all kinds of wonderful ideas that I would’ve never thought of on my own.”
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
I could go on for hours about all the ethical/moral/environmental/whatever issues with #AI, but it’s entirely irrelevant and I’ll tell you why. Generative AI works by getting the average of things, and it’s trying to replace humans. There is no average human. We’re all beautifully, naturally imperfect, and that’s something an artificial machine will never be able to replicate.
Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Gary has a point, at the same it is not the whole story in my view. Regardless the scam and all the bad things, Generative AI has added value for me here and now. That doesn't diminish the scam and all the bad effects of the technology, still it is also a perspective.
https://garymarcus.substack.c…
Lishuang Shen will speak on '“Millions-to-One, Words-to-Terms” – Generative AI Tools in Action for Rare Disease Diagnosis and Patient Data Harmonization' as part of our Applied Science track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
The inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI
I hope my middle age crisis won’t involve generative ai addiction, but instead something more cliche like buying a reflex or growing a prestigious mustache
ELISA: An Interpretable Hybrid Generative AI Agent for Expression-Grounded Discovery in Single-Cell Genomics
Omar Coser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11872 https://
From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
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The generative AI crash is gonna be just like when companies realized their pandemic revenue growth wasn’t going to continue forever, huh
Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, "cheap wins", hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/ai-math-terrance…
People who say the current generation of generative AI is nothing / pure snake oil and hypegrift are wrong. True, ChatGPT is pretty much slop, but instances like Grok Expert and Perplexity Pro consistently produce meaningful, correct results in less time than it would take to manually comb the Internet for the information. Claude Code and Cursor can radically accelerate certain software development, especially in the hands of someone who can already write code and redirect the model when it&…
I think it's time for some #FollowFriday action once again. Today, let's focus on computational/algorithmic/generative art/design practitioners (not AI art :)
An entirely incomplete list, in A-Z order:
@…
Some US college students say they are using AI "humanizer" tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch "humanizers" (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/coll
Happy new year. Take your genocides and your generative AI and shove ’em up your ass
OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)
https://fedscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-le
I feel like there’s an extremely suspect form of implicit trust going on with generative AI, i.e. “everyone‘s using it, and everything will turn out alright!” No, it won’t! For you specifically!!! At least if you’re not already a fucking billionaire!
This can’t possibly be a unique observation, but generative AI boosters, if they’re not pedophiles, seem to be primarily engaging in productivity aesthetic, which is to say, lifestyle blogging their way through pointless busy work
A Lloyds-commissioned study of 5,000 people in the UK finds that 50% of the adults used generative AI platforms for financial advice; ChatGPT was the most used (Mary McDougall/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a16bbdf4-a8c9-4fb2-b61e-e83bb5bfa11b
I sincerely hope that before too long, generative AI images are recognized for the lazy dogshit that they are, and that the design profession utterly ostracizes the practitioners who use them
Amazon details how a Russian-speaking hacker used generative AI as part of a campaign that breached 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, "Me Meme", lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/google-photos-latest-feature-lets-you-meme-…