ok mother nature, you've had your fun, that's enough snow #toronto

Rabbit holing on the SNW cast and learned that Christina Chong (who plays La’an) is OLDER than me (I’m 41) by a full year???! I honestly thought she was in her early 30s or something. My Asian age estimator was way off.

The studio that made the shitty coca-cola AI ad getting their teeth kicked in on socials bc of how icky bad it is, then the studio CEO coming out insulting and dismissing folks kicking their teeth in, and THEN releasing the worst ever cover up “hey we actually made this by hand” scam vid 🧍‍♀️

Just got home and my dad is so pissed at that dead ball call #bluejays

Got a Covid booster yesterday (I get them regularly/when available to me) and I gotta say, my left arm hasn’t hurt this much since the first shot 🥲

yeah wtf man i'm so serious that i think this is the Big Tobacco bullshit of our age

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Listen, I haven’t been posting any art (illustration, design, or otherwise) but I just did 10 reps at 175lbs for bench press and didn’t get squashed 😱

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78K...

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

I want to really, really emphasize how clear our pitch guidelines at HEAT DEATH have been about not sending us anything generated by AI, and how much that has not appeared to matter

And people still wonder why I prefer to have offline materials and redundancies over relying on cloud services for “easy access”

“So you’re saying we should bully companies that use AI?” “Yes absolutely.”

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies. Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

🚨⏳ Act now! You have until 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI. You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

Bad news: Bah I caught a cold Silver lining: at least I got it now instead of during my vacation

And patience. Practice and patience. (Proceeds to look self in the mirror while saying this because I know I need it when it comes to drawing perspective accurate backgrounds.)

Anyone have any recommendations for an affordable hotel in Tokyo? Working on getting my trip (wooo in a month!) sorted out.

Don’t make me tap the sign.

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

Rest in peace, Drew Struzan. Thanks for all the inspiration, kind sir.

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years. His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds. A massive loss 💔

Booked my flight to Tokyo ✌️ Now I just have to figure out my hotel and what exactly I’m gonna do for a week. Why do Japan trips take so much planning? 😅

i believe i said "fuck" on a comic con stage for the first time today. the full quote: "Fuck 'A.i.'"

The way AI is always used (because it cannot do anything independently, remember, it is not really AI) ends up misogynist and/or racist. Always.

Scope changes before deadline (Seriously. They’re the worst. Example: 1 marketing postcard suddenly changing to 5 + repeated copy changes. The absolute worst)

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

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Ridiculous and appalling that Open Ai, amongst other GenAi companies, think they can dictate how THEY use OUR works. No, Open Ai, it should not be authors and copyright holders opting out of your exploitative models. It should be you, Open Ai, asking authors and copyright holders to opt IN.

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

This whole section really.

"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In case you're wondering why AI is pushing so hard into education, that last bullet point is why. Get consumers hooked in young and they're likely to stay. And get embedded enough into classrooms and curriculum and the education system can't function without it - ie permanent consumers.

Capping off my birthday with some Lego

Oh hey it’s my 41st birthday today! No new/extra old man body pains so far 🤣.

WHOA

Doug Ford is out of touch. He doesn't care about the average person in Ontario, or how hard it is for young people to find jobs (thanks to his awful economic plan and college tuition model). #ontario #onpoli #dougford #frankdomenic🍁

Hi, Rhodes Scholar and Oxford grad here. This is trash.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This is horrid

KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE PILOT IS OUT NOW ON YOUTUBE!

It is your moral obligation to learn to think for yourself and not use AI

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Exploiting a black woman in death, who had to deal with so much in life, is one of the most ghoulish examples of misogynoir I have ever seen and it's only fucking Tuesday.

why do sales teams insist on making their presentations without using the templates/rules that the in house designer (me) makes???????

Apparently this is false, the article that cites this information was translated from a Korean article that doesn’t mention ChatGPT at all. The song was also written 8 years ago. I think Sherwin Wu just lied to try and drum up excitement using a popular thing