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289 likes, 2 comments - thisisbeyondbranding on January 9, 2025: "Spek by @jean.woj A speculative storytelling tool enabling readers to rethink narratives and explore new outcomes, developed throughout the Innovative Conceptualization course at the Master Beyond Branding by @folchstudio and @elisava.school Readers traditionally engage with stories in a passive way, observing the narrative unfold as intended by the author. What if readers could take an active role in reshaping those stories? Spek is a technology that enables readers to edit any part of a story while it's being read. Once a change is made, the system analyzes the modification and dynamically adapts the entire narrative—both its past and its future within set limitations—to reflect the reader's input. This creates a fluid, ever-evolving storytelling experience where readers become co-creators. To address authorship and copyright concerns, the platform hosts only possible deviations that are authorized by their original creators. Authors retain control by setting the boundaries of how much their stories can be reshaped by readers, ensuring their creative vision remains respected. Project developed throughout the Innovative Conceptualization course guided by @paulalopeznuno Innovative Conceptualization sparks novel ideas that challenge the established. The course explores diverse techniques of project research, analysis, and conceptualization as well as creative methodologies to broaden the understanding of normality. Master Beyond Branding is available in Barcelona and Madrid. Inscriptions now open.".

Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent Futures #13
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An MIT Technology Review Series: AI Colonialism
An investigation into how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.

What are good AI Films in 2025?
From disrupting Hollywood to contextualizing media.
Write5Get unlimited access to the best of Medium for less than $1/week.Become a memberBecome a memberWhat are good AI Films in 2025?From disrupting Hollywood to contextualizing media.Fabian Mosele·Follow9 min read·18 hours agoListenShareMore2024 was the year of generative videos. From the announcement of Sora in February, to the first hands-on competitors like Luma’s Dream Machine, KLING and Gen-3 Alpha, to a second wave during the fall with Hailuo and Pika 2.0, plus the advent of open source models like Mochi, CogVideoX and Hunyuan.Big stars like Kanye, Snoop Dogg, Guns’N’Roses and Pink Floyd riding the wave with generated music videos, to advertisements like Fiverr, eToro, TED and even the Minions and the Olympics.A year of generative videos until Sora, the most anticipated model was released in December with underwhelming responses. During its unreleased 11 months, it hyper-curated whatever creatives could share, advertising it deceptively and culminating with some artist who momentarily leaked Sora on Huggingface by calling themselves OpenAI’s PR Puppets.Today we can generate videos of highly realistic scenes, something unbelievable in 2023. But Sora’s announcement, and what has come since, has been creating a false narrative that these tools couldn’t live up to: disrupting Hollywood. Many big names, naively or not, have been taking massive decision based on that. James Cameron becoming part of the board of Stable Diffusion, Tyler Perry putting his studio expansion funds on hold for fear of AI, companies firing staff believing they can replace them with AI… Meanwhile in reality big names like Toys’R’us and Coca Cola made shallow advertisements that no one liked. The web is flooded by a ridiculous amount of tutorials and spec ads on how to make films with AI instead of actually creating films with it. A media landscape stained by AI slop.So what’s in store for AI films in 2025? In this essay I will go through the biggest illusions the AI bubble has over video generative models, from its capabilities and creative empowerment, to the acknowledgment of limitations that we will not escape through “better models”. The thing is, it’s not “not there yet”. Stop using yet as if a magic spell will give these models some kind of super power. We have stunningly powerful models NOW with underlying flaws that we will always have. But this isn’t all about dropping shade on the field.On the contrary, having some well needed criticism enables us to see the beauty of generative media, the real ways in which it is changing our creative workflows and allowing us to make media that was unthinkable a few years ago.Illusion of the industry“People outside of AI just think that we click one button and the film is made. We actually generate lots and lots of videos before we curate what to put in our film…”That’s the common narrative from normie “AI Filmmakers” when accused of being uncreative. What they miss is that clicking one button, or clicking a few more buttons is pretty much the same thing. AI slop and shallow slideshows have been at the forefront of generative videos. Sorry but concatenating a bunch of generative videos don’t make you a filmmaker. Sigh.What we miss from big companies and AI evangelists preaching the idea of AI being the future of creativity, is the lack of acknowledgement of what goes into a creative process. Yes, generative tools are changing the landscape of media production in crazy ways. But it’s not as easy as “insert AI company slogan here”. Generative media models require a different approach to media production. It’s less like a camera, where you point and shoot, but more like a slot machine, where you try over and over until the machine produces something you like. Let’s focus on that a bit more, since it seems that nobody acknowledges this pretty important shift.Let’s say I want to make an ad for Coca Cola. For live-action I would need to hire many people, from camera to light and actors. Each shot needs to be planned thoroughly as it is going to be costly to re-shoot anything. If we make a 3D animated ad, as Coca Cola pioneered in the 90’s, we have more control over the set as it is all in our computers. It required some clever storytelling back than to make a good looking and heart warming story with the limited technology they had. But they managed to do so because they were good storytellers.Now if we use generative media, we also need to play with the limitations this tech has. How do we tell heartwarming stories if humans look uncanny? How do we plan to make it feel it’s all happening in one place if each clip is so different? Even if you are able to find clever solutions to these problems (something Wild Card, Secret Level and Silverside AI clearly didn’t), you are still bound to a slot machine.No matter what tool you use, it’s always about generating, seeing what comes out and trying it again until the model spits out something we can work with. Generating again and again, generating aga

Model Plurality
Current research in “plural alignment” concentrates on making AI models amenable to diverse human values. But plurality is not simply a safeguard against bias or an engine of efficiency: it’s a key ingredient for intelligence itself.

Looking at the Machine - Eryk Salvaggio, Katrina Sluis & Joel Stern
Let’s begin with that inescapable cultural question of new computational practices and #artificialintelligence #ai . What are the actual affordances, complex...

Shrey Jain: Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects | RadicalxChange(s)
Shrey Jain, an applied scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, speaks with Matt Prewitt on a very timely and topical subject: AI and – more specifically – the dangers it poses to the nature of natural human communication (“context collapse”). They take a deep dive into the current threats to privacy by expanding beyond the often discussed cryptographic sense into “privacy as contextual integrity”, and the immediate opportunity to embed ethical guardrails into this ever-changing realm of generative AI through possible solutions of designated verified signatures in “plural publics”.
Shrey’s recently published paper co-authored with Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl “Plural Publics” is linked in the episode notes.

WeAlgo | Where Alter Algos Meet
WeAlgo uses face recognition AI to protect our screen privacy, instead of violating it.

Computer Says Maybe: The Age of Noise w/ Eryk Salvaggio

AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model
By Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Marketing AGI, Shipping Commercial AI The Dream of AGI and the Fully Automated Organization Acknowledgments Download the full report here INTRODUCTION In the spring of […]

The abject weirdness of AI ads | TechCrunch
"I'm trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife's advice." That's Browser Company CEO, Josh Miller, in his

Call KB: Research-meets-Art-in-Residence (RAiR) 2025 | KB LAB

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I am excited to announce that my project proposal "Participatory Design Justice for Ethical AI Transitions" has been awarded 1.3 M euros by the Italian… | 30 comments on LinkedIn

Interview: Elisa Giardina Papa "Emotion and AI. The Myth of Universality, Transparency, and Truth"
[Das zweisprachige Interview verfügt über deutsche und englische Untertitel]"Emotion und Künstliche Intelligenz – Der Mythos von Universalität, Transparenz u...

Can Artificial Intelligence be biased? On the critique of AI's 'algorithmic bias' in the arts
This working paper is dedicated to artistic positions that critically deal with ‘artificial intelli- gence’ and automated pattern recognition through algorithms. Using a series of examples, it shows the social struggles that results from the distortions of bias and how artists react to it. Building on analyses by Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl, projects by Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace, Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, Elisa Giardina Papa, Francis Hunger and Flupke, Erika Scourti, Mimi Onuoha, Nora Al-Badri, and Jan Nikolai Nelles are presented.

Dr. Mél Hogan on the Environmental Impacts of Chat GPT and AI Technologies
This is a recording from our event on February 21st, 2024. Dr. Mél Hogan presents on the Environmental Impacts of Chat GPT and AI Technologies.
The video captions were made by a human captioner. Here is a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y2vBwqIhn3ae3DH8AKORue-o-RJWZoMXvyGso_c_d1I/edit?usp=sharing
About the speaker:
Dr. Mél Hogan is the host of The Data Fix podcast and the Director of the Environmental Media Lab (EML). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University. Her research focuses on data centres and infrastructure, understood from within the contexts of settler-colonial extractivism, planetary catastrophe, and collective anxieties about the future. http://melhogan.com.
About the event:
This event is also part of the 6th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepubl...), organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.
Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, Digital Citizen Research, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, ReQEF, and more (see our website!)
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Visual Electric - AI Image Generator
Bring your vision to life with Visual Electric, the first image generator built for designers.

AI is an Invasive Species — Digital Public

Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters
Nature - A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few...

GitHub - huggingface/smol-course: A course on aligning smol models.
A course on aligning smol models. Contribute to huggingface/smol-course development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents
Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries every developer needs to build functional and efficient AI agents

CALL FOR PROJECTS IN RESIDENCE - 2025~26 | Société des arts technologiques [SAT]
The SAT is a research, creation and training center dedicated to digital culture. A unique place in Montreal, the SAT presents immersive experiences in its d...

Liberation Stories | The New Press
Over the past twenty years, social movements from DREAMers and the Movement for Black Lives, to queer and trans resistance, and domestic worker organizing, have helped tell a new story of America—an inclusive vision of our society that has galvanized a new and newly empowered generation. This achievement was no accident: movement leaders have honed communications techniques, political messages, and storytelling strategies in a new struggle for narrative power. Until now, these efforts have largely been piecemeal and disconnected from one another.

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