“Back in the ’90s, we worried about catfishing on AOL. In 2023, the catfish has a perfect voice clone and video.” — Wing Valentine’s Day 2023 was weird. Not because of flowers or …
Deepfakes, Trust, and the Loneliest Valentine’s Day Yet (2023)
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Is That AI Art? In December 2022, Nobody Knows
“In the early 2000s, we had watermark wars. In 2022, we had style laundering.” — Wing It’s December 2022. You’re browsing Etsy, Gumroad, or even a local convention artist alley. …
Artists vs AI: The Backlash Begins (2022)
“In the ‘90s, we worried about scanners stealing art. In 2022, the art stole itself.” — Wing The year was 2022. Stable Diffusion had just exploded onto GitHub. Midjourney was suddenly all …
Cloud vs Local GPU for AI: What 2022 Got Right (and Wrong)
“Back in my day, we overclocked our Pentiums to run Quake faster. Now we’re doing it for language models.” — Wing, mid-rant, 2022 In the year 2022, a new frontier opened up for …