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Miguel Afonso Caetano"Regardless, it would be a categorical mistake to see AI as the next iteration of those earlier paradigm shifts. While I can imagine practical applications of AI (storyboarding comes to mind), it isn’t just another tool at a filmmaker’s disposal or an effective way of democratizing the filmmaking process itself — though Radu Jude’s forthcoming “Dracula” actively uses it as both in order to highlight the technology’s fundamentally vampiric nature. It doesn’t streamline or emphasize human creativity so much as it insists that we’ve had enough of that already, and the algorithms can take it from here. The perfect form of expression for people who think memes are the ultimate height of comedy, AI doesn’t allow for a world with more artists, it allows the tech industry to create a world that ostensibly doesn’t need them. As “Everything Everywhere All at Once” co-director Daniel Kwan so elegantly put it at a recent event in West Hollywood, AI less represents a new form of storytelling than it does an invasive species to the concept of storytelling itself. It’s a wasp, not a bee. And with all due respect to Mr. Ben Mankiewicz, using AI to preserve the magic of “The Wizard of Oz” is like using cancer to preserve the function of a pancreas. Which is all the more reason why I take issue with Mankiewicz’s assertion that Fleming would have — not might have — Sphere-ified his masterpiece if only he had the technology to do so. That AI is somehow restoring “The Wizard of Oz” rather than eating away at its essence. It’s an argument that presumes authorial intent as a means of inviting people to override it." <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/movies-should-reject-ai-wizard-of-oz-sphere-1235142276/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/movies-should-reject-ai-wizard-of-oz-sphere-1235142276/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneratedImages</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hollywood</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Film</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cinema</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"There are certainly some people who oppose AI completely, and who see even the supposed benefits of AI as little more than “bribes” designed to distract people from the overwhelming harms AI causes. But, in fairness, much more of the inchoate opposition to AI seems to be less about an outright rejection of AI, and more about a sense that there are appropriate and inappropriate areas for AI usage. Or, to put it a different way: there are lots of people who have no problem with AI being used to help with things like cancer detection, but who are worried that AI is harming students’ ability to think; similarly there are people who are willing to believe that AI can be used to make certain processes more efficient, but who don’t think that AI belongs in artistic pursuits. At this point many of us have heard some version of the joke that “AI was supposed to free us from drudgery so we could spend our time making art, but instead AI is making art and sticking us with the drudgery.” One can disagree with parts of that statement (was AI really “supposed” to do that? Can you call what AI generates “art”?), while still recognizing that many people’s hostility to AI is couched in a belief that AI is intruding into areas where it does not belong."<a href="https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/do-draugveils-roses-have-ai-thorns-what-the-debate-about-a-black-metal-album-says-about-ai-and-art/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/do-draugveils-roses-have-ai-thorns-what-the-debate-about-a-black-metal-album-says-about-ai-and-art/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneratedImages</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Automation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Productivity</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"In the 2020s, Steyerl believes the poor image will become an endangered species: soon, most images circulating on the internet will no longer be photographic representations of reality, but data-based renderings that are essentially a programmatic fantasy. The ‘statistical image-making’ of Stable Diffusion and DALL-E derives its contents from large but ultimately incomplete datasets. The generated result is an average composite image that represents the machine’s idea of reality: six-fingered hands, distorted limbs, exaggerated body proportions and eerily smooth foods.Medium Hot introduces a taxonomic framework for this visual phenomena – one that feels, at times, bloated and frantic in its categorical overlap. ‘Burnt-out images’ refer to works made from AI diffusion models, in which noise, or random data, is added to training data and then removed to generate an image. This diffusion process gives rise to what Steyerl dubs a ‘derivative image’, a term that echoes the concept of ‘derivatives’ in financial systems, highlighting the model’s extractive nature. Consider the derivative image a counterfeit version of the poor image. While the poor image attempts to skirt copyright limitations, the derivative image’s condition for existence is predicated on ‘large-scale data theft’. Steyerl highlights too the bias embedded in the AI means of production but ultimately resists the proposition that models should be inclusively reprogrammed on the basis that implementing diverse training data would only require more labour from microworkers and exacerbate the problem of data theft. AI thrives on disenfranchisement, contributing to ‘multipolar surveillance and… profound social disruptions’."<a href="https://artreview.com/hito-steyerls-medium-hot-the-age-of-slop-artificial-intelligence-terry-nguyen-opinion/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://artreview.com/hito-steyerls-medium-hot-the-age-of-slop-artificial-intelligence-terry-nguyen-opinion/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneratedImages</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaTheory</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video of the beloved Pixar character Wall-E holding a gun.It’s been a busy month for Midjourney. This week, the generative AI startup released its sophisticated new video tool, V1, which lets users make short animated clips from images they generate or upload. The current version of Midjourney’s AI video tool requires an image as a starting point; generating videos using text-only prompts is not supported.The release of V1 comes on the heels of a very different kind of announcement earlier in June: Hollywood behemoths Disney and Universal filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that it violates copyright law by generating images with the studios’ intellectual property."<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/midjourney-generates-videos-of-disney-characters-amid-massive-copyright-lawsuit/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/midjourney-generates-videos-of-disney-characters-amid-massive-copyright-lawsuit/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneratedImages</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MidJourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MidJourney</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disney</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Universal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Universal</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"If you stumbled across Terence Broad’s AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he’d trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko — the earlier, lighter pieces, before his vision became darker and suffused with doom. Like early-period Rothko, Broad’s AI-generated images consist of simple fields of pure color, but they’re morphing, continuously changing form and hue.But Broad didn’t train his AI on Rothko; he didn’t train it on any data at all. By hacking a neural network, and locking elements of it into a recursive loop, he was able to induce this AI into producing images without any training data at all — no inputs, no influences. Depending on your perspective, Broad’s art is either a pioneering display of pure artificial creativity, a look into the very soul of AI, or a clever but meaningless electronic by-product, closer to guitar feedback than music. In any case, his work points the way toward a more creative and ethical use of generative AI beyond the large-scale manufacture of derivative slop now oozing through our visual culture.Broad has deep reservations about the ethics of training generative AI on other people’s work, but his main inspiration for (un)stable equilibrium wasn’t philosophical; it was a crappy job."<a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688576/feed-ai-nothing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688576/feed-ai-nothing</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneratedImages</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AITraining</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a>

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