Vincent Van DALL-E feat. Mattie Lubchansky
Mattie Lubchansky joins the gang to explore the future of art and AI. There was once a time when you could make a decent living as an illustrator, but a number of people have decided to get rid of that by using Computers. Hope you were okay with all the art that’s been made so far, because that’s all you’re getting!
*AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets available for shows in Sydney: https://musicboozeco.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/3213de46-cef7-49c4-abcb-c9bdf4bcb61f and Canberra: https://au.patronbase.com/_StreetTheatre/Productions/TFLP/Performances
*BRITAINOLOGY ALERT* We’ve added a live show in Melbourne on the 19th of November in which Nate and Milo will present Britainology! Get tickets here: https://tccinc.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/79853
Comments (27)
That Berlin train station music story appears to be 4 years old…
Neeeerd
ALBANY MENTIONED
My particularly harsh question is why the idea of large swaths of commercial artists and graphic designers being automated out of the economy is treated as a particular moral peril compared to every other kind of job.
Digital artists stand atop a mountain of other artisan trades that have been largely automated out of existence.
What they don't consider is maybe Virmere didn't paint the rest of the room because it wasn't fucking relevant to the subject matter and what he was trying to convey. Urgh, fuck sake.
I'd rather get taken out back and have my ass kicked in than listen to theory
Than Suffer
strange to hear Albany / Egg references in my english podcast
The things I learn from this show is slowly damaging my mental health, yet I continue to stand in front of this content train daring it to hit me.
this was me until I started listening to leftist podcasts more focused on theory too. don't get me wrong I love TF but my favourite episodes are when they have activists or organisers who are obviously versed in Marxism and in a form that lets them use it as a tool to combat the issues the tech economy is perpetuating, i.e praxis. and also when Milo does funny voices. otherwise TF gets pretty bleak, frustratingly so because there Are answers
Dracula J Khaled is a great character. trying to think of a riff about him calling the CEO of Itunes giving him permission to add more servers except its the CEO of the Red Cross giving him permissions to get more donors.
*vampire voice* Another one
An AI should write more books of the Bible
1976: Iggy Pop and David Bowie flee Berlin after being subjected to recorded oompah music at the Hauptbahnhof
Y'all best not come for Andor cuz that shit slaps.
The funny stuff about the AI copywriting is that the main skill that gets you highly paid as a copywriter is being able to wrangle confused executives and get them to feel good about agreeing to something that doesn't sound completely terrible. The actual writing is pretty easy to learn, and most human copyrighters are just duplicating stuff they saw elsewhere anyway
one day ai generated ai will exist, removing the final actual piece of meaningful labour from the economy and everything will be bullshit jobs, and at that point when I'm a computer masseuse and not even sure what that means i will know my last moment of humour
Does anybody know who is the contemporary Marxist writer Riley mentions frequently? Mark Fisher?
If he's talking about the author of Capitalist Realism, then yes it's Mark Fisher.
Obviously the way that the AI image generation technically works isn't really the crux of the issue, but I think the best way to describe it is that it's taught to squint at an image until it's all blurry, and that way it learns how to unsquint at a blur until it looks like a large breasted anime woman.
59:40 you’re like, describing my idea of how the no man’s sky economy must function irl. Like if it wasn’t fun. Just random half starved fucks scanning fungi on a radioactive planet to buy their utilities
Berlin atonal bahnhoff got me about to abdicate three years of sobriety right about now
Artists searching for their wooden shoes to throw at data center computers.
Somehow, only the Dutch were prepared. It's almost as if they planned it. Damn Dutch
I did not have "new Milo character originating in White Wolf's World of Darkness" on my bingo card, but that's why I'm a premium hog.
Idk it just feels like good or bad we are all tools of capital nowadays I am, Trashfuture is everything.