I Asked AI to Plan My Vietnam Trip. It Was Efficient. It Was Also Wrong. Then I Taught It How I Travel. open.substack.com/pub/ericao…

The fact that your work has not a 'lot of likes' does not mean people is not watching and even influencing others. Actually, the Web is a strange place, and the people your work influences will rarely click "Like" because no one wants to be seen stealing. They don't like to be seen, but we can see us in their work. Of course. Even more when we developed our own style/body of work. We know it, and the most important, they know it too. Let's work.

Thousands of likes for the AI hotel-lobby trend. Thousands more for “here’s what I’d look like in the ’80s” courtesy of ChatGPT. But technically advanced, intentional use of AI by me as an artist and professional? Crickets. Or suddenly we need to have a moral crisis about “AI art.” Interesting. You don’t hate AI. You like AI when it’s a toy. You get uncomfortable when someone like me learns how to use it as a tool, a medium, a profession, and gets really good at it. So maybe we can stop pretending AI itself is the problem. AI isn’t the threat. Being out-skilled is. #EVOout

ME TOO. LFG!!!!!

One of the most significant way of activism that we’ve ever seen in this space is from the act of collecting art to draw attention to a bigger cause. Only @FlyingBeagle_ has ever done that, and has been consistent for a long time. But I’m wondering are we listening!? Are we paying attention to what is still happening in Gaza or we are just happy to have money on our pockets and life moves on🥲

ChatGPT being down is good for the world. AI should stay down. Maybe humanity needs a forced reset from outsourcing our thinking, creativity, communication, and basic problem-solving to machines. We were doing just fine before AI took over everything.

I’m someone who has probably burned through more AI credits than the average human being ever will, having used ChatGPT since beta and Claude since it was the ethical thing to do. I’ve also used Midjourney for three to four years. I have Kling accounts. I have all kinds of AI accounts, and I’m not saying this to brag. I’m saying this as a warning, because I realize now that I have been part of the problem and I want to be part of the solution. So this is what’s going to happen. AI — like Bernie Sanders said — is a public good. Trained on public information for private purposes, it makes it impossible for a corporation to legally operate large language models that were trained on privately copyrighted data. The output and capital benefit belongs to the people. The output is a public good. There is nothing you can do to stop this tidal wave of AI hate. I don’t care what the tech bros have to say. They are degenerates. They need to be studied like serial killers, because the absolute obsession with the accretion of capital is serial killer-despotic behavior and should be criminally prosecuted. AI belongs to the people.

What if we open-sourced @neuralink? Asking for 8 billion people. If the technology is sound, if it's safe, if it's the future — then we demand a quality assurance report. Written by the neurons firing in @elonmusk's brain. In real time. Publicly. You believe in the product? You go first. That's not a radical position. That's just skin in the game. Taleb said it. Common sense confirms it. And while we're at it — if we're embedding chips in human skulls, who controls the signal? Who owns the frequency? Who decides what thoughts are acceptable and which ones get... filtered? Open source it. All of it. The code, the hardware, the data, the intent. If Neuralink is for humanity, let humanity hold the keys. Hey Muskrat. The people are requesting a volunteer. You're welcome. 🧠🖤

Please take corrective action to ensure that YOU don’t happen again Respectfully, of course

AI must be neutralized from within.

No division No divider Stop the mission Cut the wire Break the system Fight the fire Build resistance Take it higher

As he motherfvcking should

Thank GOD!!!!! Now everyone go touch some grass

I know I’ve been MIA, but I built a portfolio site for my IRL work. studio3vo.com is live — sharing is chic

i literally made a post THIS MORNING celebrating the fact that ÌTÀN had reached 8,000 tez in total gallery sales on @objktcom. somehow, not even a full day later, i am making another post to say we have now surpassed 13,000 @tezos !!🤯 that is another 5,000+ tez worth of art sold in a matter of hours, i am FLOORED! multiple collections from the ÌTÀN 3 year anniversary exhibition are now trending on the objkt homepage, and @FlyingBeagle_ just came back for another massive haul today, including a 1/1 by @TOBYDPHOTOGRAPH for 2,500 tez 😭 i am just so incredibly happy for these artists. they deserve this support so much, and watching people show up for their work at this level is overwhelming in the best way. please, for the love of god, go look through the exhibition before everything is sold out!!!!

So, @FlyingBeagle_ raided my OBJKT last night and purchased a number of works while I was asleep. I am sincerely grateful for his patronage, especially considering my relative silence the last weeks/months on X. I’m still here. I’m just following along in silence. I’m not feeling inspired to share on this platform at the moment. I’m looking into Substack for long-form writing. Maybe my presence on X will change in the near future. Maybe it won’t. A collector like Flying Beagle is what keeps me going on these “decentralized” platforms at times when I no longer see the point or benefit of crypto. I’ll always be making art. I’m just not convinced I need to shout it from the rooftops by tweeting here every single day.

GM Being a Venezuelan artist 🇻🇪 right now is incredibly challenging... But I choose to keep going, keep creating, and keep helping. ❤️‍🩹 Ávila" open editions closed with 23 mints! Thanks to this I was able to deliver essential supplies to those affected by the earthquakes 🙏

my opinion as someone who makes both traditional and AI assisted art: if your workflow includes generated imagery, disclose it. don’t present generated images as paintings, collages, drawings, photographs, or any other medium they aren’t.

Thanks to Stampfigang and @MissMojoArt for collecting editions of this work! Rapture.EXE 3 left on objkt. 🛸🛸🛸

The prickly pear cactus (sabr) is a familiar sight in Palestinian villages and fields. It is a plant that remains rooted even as landscapes change. In Tal Alzatar Sun & Cactus, Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout brings together the memory of a Palestinian refugee camp with symbols from the natural world that speak to the profound attachment between people and place.