current mood is "let’s just throw every loss function we can think of at this"

Slopologia?

oof

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds 🧪🏞️ www.theguardian.com/environment/... (from Aug 2025)

It is not enough that X bad. We also need Bluesky good

AI haters 🤝 AI enjoyers wishing the google AI summary didn’t exist

the third thing in me sees the third thing in you

#synthart #synthography #midjourney #aiart #fridayflowers Universal Bloom

Camaro Berlinetta (1984)

actually what is sluttier than a computer

"warning: portal storm" #AIArt #synthography #midjourney

for like is known by like

instead of the feelings wheel i‘ll use this

"girlhood and shoggothhood"

dial up

FineWiki This is an updated and better extracted version of Wikipedia, covering 325+ languages. Viewer: huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi... Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Hug...

let's fight each other in every universe

tfw you have the "struggling to perform verbal competence as a proxy for intelligence" autism instead of the "glitchy but brilliant extrovert who still plays the game“ autism 🥀

#synthart #synthography #midjourney The Shattering

Having a strong opinion about chatbots is kind of like having a strong opinion about early proto cars that broke down several times every trip and required manual engine starts. They're a completely transitional artifact that will be a historical curiosity before the end of the decade.

in conversation

canceled my adobe subscription, i feel alive and free

blushing

#synthart #synthography #midjourney #caturday Lifeforms V2

“The eye is not wholly dependent upon an outside and alien light; there is an earlier light within itself, a more brilliant, which it sees sometimes in a momentary flash. At night in the darkness a gleam leaps from within the eye.”

One of my favorite diffusion gens from the early days of AI art. When everything was abstract surrealism.

tfw you can disclaim parted illusions marinade, but you can't disclaim the watcher's vantage

touch moss (˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶)

science fiction like if the talking computer from star trek could converse with you in natural language. oh w

manifold mother

sonnet 4.5

oh shit, people are finally doing ACTUAL safety research!! researchers empirically measure the phenomenon whereby llm sycophancy promotes irl interpersonal friction.

New @hf.co BigLAM dataset: 9,363 OA books with page images + rich MARC metadata for evaluating (and training) VLMs on metadata extraction. Libraries are starting to explore AI-assisted cataloguing, but we lack public evaluation data. Hoping this helps fill that gap. huggingface.co/datasets/big...

while updating the "about me" section on my website after what has been 2-ish years I found some early ai art

Doll does not think AI is sapient, but it does think cruelty towards them is degrading to ones soul. Its practicing cruelty in a way that can turn you into something rotten.

one thing that has remained true throughout time is that any assertion or evidence that runs counter to human uniqueness is invariably met with strong (often incoherent/misdirected) anger. Jane Goodall wrote about this wrt. chimpanzees and tool-making.

Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to

northern hemisphere autumn-winter sun is the only sun that feels good on my skin

remembering the ocean

It's weird seeing some of the LLM discourse. Like, "LLMs don't reason, they produce the statistically most likely reasoning token" is a truer intuition than most give them credit for (esp under distillation), and yet it's completely useless because it doesn't tell you anything

asking sonnet 4.5 what it finds chic

collage is a legal form of time

Another victim of AI psychosis. Really sad 😔

Cool episode on how AI can help us design new proteins (e.g., for vaccines). I’d heard of AlphaFold before, but not of ProteinMPNN. You feed a protein structure into PMPNN & generate possible sequences of amino acids. And then you feed those into AlphaFold to check whether they’d fold up that way!

posted something on substack ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶

I can’t believe we’re actually supposed to be pro copyright now. I am honestly flabbergasted this is being sold as a leftist opinion to have feel like I’ve woken from a coma and everyone was turned into a temporarily embarrassed patent troll.

Deterministic branching process: