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I'm building an app for EHFM, if you're interested in app development and/or online community radio then I could use some beta testers to help locate issues on different devices. You can get releases and log issues on Github. Managed to catch a chunk of
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These are some notes triggered both by the past two weeks I spent in the US, one of the most fascinating and disturbing political arenas in the world, and by the insipid vacuum of a 13-hour journey back to Glasgow. I've no real interest in discussing the
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Stating the obvious, it's a minute since I sent anything. Only three days after my last message back in May, Rishi Sunak announced a general election in the UK, an event that most of us expected wouldn't happen til around October or November. For the rest
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An audience watches a screen displaying a sequence of live security camera feeds from several rooms, including the space in which the audience is located. Two AI models converse with each other to manipulate the visible environments: one model generates imagery prompted by the other, which is paradoxically generating descriptions
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Using AI frame interpolation to inject synthetic content between the frames of authentic media, Swimming Through Synthesis is a literal expression of the process by which synthetic media manipulates trust by interweaving through an authentic context.
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Our trust in the new, generated content might be altered by the seemingly legitimate context within which it rests.
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A semi-improvised audiovisual performance: a performer reads a series of statements, ranging from factual to nonsensical, while frequently being interrupted by an artificial intelligence model displayed on a wearable device on their wrist. The AI attempts to assert its opinion on the veracity of each statement, challenging and altering
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Recently: It's so long since I wrote about anything I'm consuming so I'm not sure where to start. I unfortunately swore off basically everything except the 2004 version of Battlestar Galactica for a while, convincing myself that it's worth watching because I
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A cute example of poisoning the well In Max Read's piece, he also cites a funny example of Google's attempts at factual and useful AI interactions rather than entertaining ones, by asking it for food names ending with "um." Gemini returns fruit names creatively
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Writing like a chatbot I've done an audio recording of this text to make it a bit more accessible, and also because reading it out loud was a good way to proofread it. I know a lot of people don't enjoy being given big long paragraphs
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Searching for Justice Revisiting some writing I did for a rough experimental bit of group work a couple of months ago, I felt there was more to learn from it so I'm going to extract, rephrase and abridge some of the justification I put together for it at
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We're back! ~1500 words you never asked for! But first a reminder that I'm exhibiting work in London this weekend (4th - 6th May) at Brompton Cemetery Chapel. Opening afternoon is on Saturday the 4th til 6pm, I've heard that there will be tea and