By guest author: Nielo Wait, VRZ Champions LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielo/ YouTube: Slopfiction Caveat: These ideas were articulated with the assistance of artificial intelligence — barely legal em dashes and all. Two AIs walk into a bar. Bartender: “Sorry, we don’t serve minors.” As the western AI begins to litigate, the eastern AI forks the bartender, open-sources the quantized version, and shouts, "The next round is on me!" USA, run by lawyers, is trying to legislate its way into AI dominance. China, run by engineers, is shipping fast, hard-coding its own vision of what AI should be. Both are building futures. But the difference in approach is already warping the GenAI landscape — and who gets to shape it. That’s the frame: GenAI isn’t good or bad. It’s just barely legal . Not in the smirking, R-rated LoRa sense. In the sense that the rulebook doesn’t exist yet, the court cases are unresolved, the ethics are wea...
If you’ve spent any time at all on social media recently, the Pope in a white puffer jacket or “Harry Potter by Balenciaga” (and its several spin-offs) may have caught your eye. Of course, AI-generated art and video are everywhere these days. To those of us who have only recently woken up to the AI revolution, the technology feels very recent. Arguably the most popular AI image generator, Midjourney, is not even a year old. Yet, computer-generated art has been slowly advancing for more than half a century and very quickly for the last decade or so. The evolution of neural networks, a crucial component of modern AI-generated imagery, started even longer ago – all the way back in the 1940s. Algorithm art: The early days In some sense, the birth of AI-generated imaging can be traced back to the 1960s. This is when researchers started exploring the use of computer algorithms to create digital images. One of the earliest examples of this is the work of A. Michael Noll...