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Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson|Analysis

Dancing with AI: how next-gen game designers are taking the lead

Step into Jonah King’s queer sci-fi virtual reality game Honey Fungus, and you’re immediately transported to a world that could only exist through the marriage of human imagination and machine learning. Floating through a viscous digital landscape, you encounter creatures that defy biological classification: lush beings that are part human torso, part exotic mushroom, with … Continued

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Sigourney Schultz|Cinema

Dispirited Away: In the wrong hands, ‘Ghiblified’ genAI images erode ethos, empathy, and our very humanity

An art historian who grew up inside Pixar Studios reflects on what we lose when art once rendered through deliberate labor and deep care can be reproduced in seconds — and weaponized just as quickly.

Jessica Helfand|The Icarus Diaries

15: Flight Plan

Auden calls Icarusa boy falling out of the sky. I think about that sky and, and what else it might offer. Obstacles. Miracles.  Birds.