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@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-04-12 00:50:29

A preview of Monday’s post in case you need a distraction from the state of the world.
varnelis.net/works_and_project

The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art - varnelis.net
Kazys Varnelis, Stochastic Parrots, 2025.Large Language Model (LLM)-based Artificial Intelligences have been derided for hallucinating—a topic that I addressed in my last essay, “The New Surrealism. On AI and Hallucinations,”—and labeled “stochastic parrots,” supposedly incapable of generating authentic meaning beyond remixed texts. Coined by researcher Emily Bender and her colleagues, the term “stochastic parrots” describes ...

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-03 15:00:05

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."
(Original title: GenAI is Our Polyester)
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-

GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape

@datascience@genomic.social
2025-04-25 10:00:00

R doesnt need to be a hard and scientific tool 📈. You can use it to make art 🎨: #rstats

GitHub - cutterkom/generativeart: Create Generative Art with R
Create Generative Art with R. Contribute to cutterkom/generativeart development by creating an account on GitHub.

@denmanrooke@social.coop
2025-05-31 22:58:41

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

ANIMATION INDUSTRY IN DANGER : WORLD UNIONS DECLARE EMERGENCY IN THE FACE OF GENERATIVE Al USE. Graphic with the text Let's Stop AI Generated Art.
ENGLISH VERSION This statement was composed by a collective of international Animation Unions, federations, and organisations calling for action in regards to the usage of generative Artificial Intelligence and its destructive impact, not only on the global animation industry and the craft itself, but also on everyone who is employed by it, our culture and our planet. The animation industry is suffering, after the explosion of the streaming bubble and the pandemic. The workers are feeling the …
This same technology is being used to foster dissent, confusion and distrust among the public. This unchecked growth and unjustified techno-optimism comes with incredible environmental consequences, including expanding demand for computing power, larger carbon footprints, shifts in patterns of electricity and water demands and an accelerated depletion of natural resources. As such, there is a need for protection frameworks around GenAl, centered around transparency, compensation, control on the…
We invite all workers, students and allies to join us in Annecy festival, to discuss concerns and defense against GenAl, and to hear unions representatives read the statement on Thursday, June 12th, at 2 PM, on the Paquier (and then a map graphic)
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-02 10:46:34

#ReleaseMonday — New version (v0.27.0) of thi.ng/genart-api, a platform-independent extensible API for browser-based computational/algorithmic/generative art projects:
This version feature…

thi.ng/genart-api

@tschundler@leds.social
2025-06-02 21:26:01

There's some discourse on generative AI "democratizing" art.
And this is so confusing to me. I create images. And when I do, I'm trying to take something in my head, and make it real. And share that image in my head with others.
It's my image in my head. If I describe that to AI to make the image, then it is just approximate. To get it closer to my image needs a better prompt.
That's writing. Writing it its own art, and you can let the reader imagi…

@arXiv_csGR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-09 07:37:52

AI-powered Contextual 3D Environment Generation: A Systematic Review
Miguel Silva, Alexandre Valle de Carvalho
arxiv.org/abs/2506.05449

AI-powered Contextual 3D Environment Generation: A Systematic Review
The generation of high-quality 3D environments is crucial for industries such as gaming, virtual reality, and cinema, yet remains resource-intensive due to the reliance on manual processes. This study performs a systematic review of existing generative AI techniques for 3D scene generation, analyzing their characteristics, strengths, limitations, and potential for improvement. By examining state-of-the-art approaches, it presents key challenges such as scene authenticity and the influence of te…

@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-04 13:51:54

This arxiv.org/abs/2412.04339 has been replaced.
initial toot: mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Likelihood-Scheduled Score-Based Generative Modeling for Fully 3D PET Image Reconstruction
Medical image reconstruction with pre-trained score-based generative models (SGMs) has advantages over other existing state-of-the-art deep-learned reconstruction methods, including improved resilience to different scanner setups and advanced image distribution modeling. SGM-based reconstruction has recently been applied to simulated positron emission tomography (PET) datasets, showing improved contrast recovery for out-of-distribution lesions relative to the state-of-the-art. However, existing…

@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-04-17 15:54:52

My third essay in my series on AI and Art (the first is on hallucination, the second is on generative art). Are AIs merely Stochastic Parrots?
varnelis.substack.com