These sources are artworks, artists' pages and writing about pictures. Pages describe text only, and images were not viewed. This page lists six sources, oldest first where dated.
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
This is a short social post linking a video on Vimeo. The artist says the work is performed with a live recitation. The source is a few lines plus a thread of replies. The video itself was not viewed.
On Interpolatable Archives (Clean)
The essay is a newsletter piece in four parts. It uses Aby Warburg's picture atlas and Borges's library as lenses on language models. Its evidence is argument, citations to other writers, and the author's own use of chatbots. It weighs benefits and risks and ends undecided on some issues.
Every piece of "solarpunk" art I see is just reactionary pastoralist fantasy with solar panels added
The post is a short criticism of solarpunk art, written as a reply. It names suburbia and monocrop farming as unexamined. The replies mix agreement, pushback and jokes, and add no data.
Post by @moultano.bsky.social on an article about colors screens cannot show
The post is short and reports on reader response to Moulton's own article. It attaches a screenshot of a Reddit recommendation. Three replies praise the article or react to it.
github.com/aphid91/Fluo... (post on new Fluoddity sonification code)
The post replies to a question about whether the app is open source. It names the branches holding the new code and where the menus are. A follow-up describes the work as a brand new experiment.
Maybe doing this in a kinda depresso mood isn't the best idea... well here goes anyway
The post is one sentence plus two images. Its replies are short compliments from followers. The images were not viewed, only their alt text.
Glossary
- Alt text
- A written description attached to an image.
- Branch
- A separate line of development inside a code repository.
- Interpolatable archive
- The essay's term for a model that blends its training material.
- Latent space
- The internal map of patterns a model learns, in which similar ideas sit close together.
- Mnemosyne Atlas
- Aby Warburg's unfinished display of images on panels, sorted by feeling and theme.
- Model collapse
- A loss of variety when models learn from model-made output.
- Monocrop agriculture
- Farming that grows a single crop over large areas.
- R/longform
- A Reddit community that shares long articles.
- RLHF
- Training in which human ratings steer a model toward preferred answers.
- Seance
- A gathering that tries to contact the dead.
- Solarpunk
- An art and fiction genre imagining hopeful futures built around renewable energy.
- Sonification
- Turning data or motion into sound.
- Sycophancy
- A model's habit of agreeing with and flattering the user.
- Vimeo
- A website for hosting and sharing videos.
- VTuber
- A streamer or content creator who appears as an animated avatar.