Forced into Design, Packaging + Comics by a shameful love of commercial art // Design work @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/KpZe0dBLoX

Wellington, New Zealand
Joined August 2009
Blood Suckers from the Valley Beyond #RunwayBigPitchContest "it's a slop fest!"
🤖 Made with AI
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BURGER WELLY 2023: The Invasion of the Burger Snatchers! The countdown to Burger Welly '23 in on! One of my favourite times of the year, and this time I got to fever-dream this artwork for  @WellyOnaPlate & everyone.nz
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Some friends at Everyone.nz & the lovely people at @WellyOnaPlate asked me to illustrate some yummy posters for their 2023 event. This was one of my favourites!  Had some really nice back-and-forth on this one around native birds & magical forests.
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The attack of AI advertising is nigh!!! Are AI people in ads ethical? And would we be able to tell one if we saw one? Inspired by a local NZ political party, I tested the tech & wrote a 'How to spot an AI Ad' piece for @TheSpinoffTV thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08… #ai #Advertising
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Duck Story Made using @runwayml Gen-2 + Bark + Tango + Riffusion + MidJourney
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Video is up! @AucklandUni invited me to discuss the intersection of Generative AI & Creativity for their Gibbons Lecture series, link below. I start yammering at about 12mins, after the lovely waiata & intros. If you think it has value, share it :) youtu.be/1uB_CUF13No?t=714
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Join us for the first Gibbons lecture of 2023 on 11 May 2023, presented by Tim Gibson of Stolen Glances Studio "AI and the New Creative Revolution." Lecture commences 6.30pm auckland.ac.nz/en/science/ab… We look forward to seeing you there! Livestream link: youtube.com/live/1uB_CUF13No…
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I'm doing a free talk: "AI & the New Creative Revolution: The potential uses, power, ethics & impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on creative industries & human creativity." Thursday 11th, 6:30pm, AUT, Lib B15 Lecture Theatre General Library Basement,5 Alfred St, AUCK.
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Should be an interesting mix of overview, feels, opportunities & predictions. Would love to see some of you there! Mingles are at 6pm, talk at 6:30pm
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Want to know how to make great ai art? Thread below!👇🧵👇 @0xDecaArt
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Last batch of comps of NZ creative work from the Laion-5B and Laion-400M image datasets - searchable database of 5.8 Billion images is at haveibeentrained.com/
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Here are a few more pieces of NZ creative industry work that I found on haveibeentrained.com/ which is a visual database of images that are beings used in Generative AI training. Few more to follow.
The Generative Image AI that I've been harping on about, hasn't just scraped the ©️ artwork & intellectual property of poor artists & uppity illustrators, they've likely also incorporated the IP of some of our biggest New Zealand companies & their creative partners. #nz #ai
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You can learn more about it, search the database for images that may belong to you or others, & theoretically flag them from removal to stop them from being used in future builds or models.
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Disclaimer: I can't verify the legal status or ownership of these searched images, only that they appear to be in the datasets being used by Gernerative AI programs like Stable Diffusion etc to create 'new work'.
I was lucky enough to chat about the impact of Generative AI on creative industries with Emile Donovan for The Detail, link below. Some thoughtful insights from Andrew Chen about ChatGPT and the broader space, too.
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It seems ludicrous that any of that even needs to be debated, doesn't it? Like, can we keep this amazing technology but jettison the douchery?
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