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Tag Archives: AI
The smudge that was 2024
2024 is over, and that’s a good thing. It was not a good year. 2024 was, for all intents and purposes, a long blurry smudge of monotony mired in many minor personal disasters and distractions. Playing about with AI-tools and participating in numerous webinars on the topic ate into so much of my time that most projects I had planned for the year remain handwritten bullet points on a piece of paper. I also had a serious flu that may or may not have been covid, a broken tooth, a parking ticket, a speeding ticket, and a nasty case of lumbago. These are white people’s problems that don’t normally happen to me. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 2024, AI, AI image editing, babes, catastrophe, current affairs, dilemma, disaster, drama, misfortune, murder-death-kill, pain, time
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Review: 2023
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. As of 2023 I’ve officially stopped giving a shit. Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, AI, babes, corona, current affairs, humanity, John Lennon, murder-death-kill, the end is nigh
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Photo restoration through AI? Nope!
Despite the recent incredible developments in artificial intelligence and image generation, I remain steadfast that AI still has no role in the workflow for digitising personal snapshots on prints, slides or negatives. While I obviously made basic edits like cropping, or adjusting brightness, contrast, white balance and colours so that the viewer can actually see what’s going on in a photo, my experiences with AI services (read: face enhancing) have done nothing but confirm a phenomenon that’s already been termed “identity shift”. Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged AI, AI photo enhancement, archival, art, digitization, facial recognition, man-machine, memories, restoration, surveillance
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AI Photo Enhancement: Boon or Bust for Old Photos?
Digitizing old family photos is a great way to preserve family history and memories for future generations. But let’s face it: old photos can be faded, scratched, and just plain old-looking. That’s where AI-powered photo enhancement software comes in. But is it really the panacea it’s cracked up to be? Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged AI, AI and photo authenticity, AI image editing, AI photo enhancement, authenticity in photo restoration, ChatGPT, digitization, digitizing old photos, images, photo enhancement ethics, photo enhancement software, photo restoration techniques, photography, photos, preservation, preserving old photos, restoring historical photos, Skynet
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Blade Runner 2019
It is November 2019. This is when the classic 1982 film Blade Runner takes place. For over three decades I’ve wondered what the year 2019 would really be like. Continue reading
The Matrix remembered
2019 rings in yet another anniversary. The Matrix movie is twenty years old. Had the film been released now, in 2019, it would still be a terrific actioner and perhaps even more relevant than it was then: the matrix will be instantly recognised as an obvious allegory to the always-connected, domesticated, utilitarian social media of today. Surveillance by machines is a pervasive theme, and much of the computer jargon that would have befuddled viewers two decades ago has since entered mainstream speak. Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged 1999, AI, anniversary, environment, futurism, humanity, internet culture, man-machine, Matrix, philosophy, science fiction, Y2K
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Cyberia 13: Superstition
Why do we always assume that machines, however intelligent and efficient they may become, have some sort of hidden and nasty agenda? Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged AI, Cyberia, desktop philosophy, humanity, Matrix
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