Christopher Adams

I propose we change the job title "prompt engineer" to "sloperator".

It always breaks my heart when I'm reading something clearly written by a human (authentic, warm, personal) and it suddenly turns into chatgptese. yikes!

Putting the ban in bandcamp! It is a wicked problem so I understand what they are trying to do. I’m sure the human moderators won’t be banning artists exploring AI, rather I hope will just be looking to filter out soundspam The gray area will only get larger

A Birthday Letter from Tokyo— On Isozaki, Tange, Kurokawa, lateness, this past year, cloud studies, glasses, Auden, book progress, fixed and unfixed stars, and other musings. Link in reply so the algorithm doesn't punish me.

I admire the intention and think this RFP is predicated on an instructive misunderstanding Bauhaus was not an aesthetic, but a new school of thought. They changed the ambitions of art and pedagogy, and (incidentally) beautiful and strange things emerged. That is why it was radical and successful. The root of this misunderstanding is why it often doesn’t feel like we have new aesthetics. We do, but they fall far short of the high ambitions of the modernists. The incentives of the attention economy have produced new aesthetics and rituals that would look alien to anyone last century. Slop is a very new aesthetic. Fluorescent streamer caves are new. Body horror Botox influencers are new. The extent to which we are dissatisfied with them is the extent to which we feel the governing logic of our culture is perverse. The opportunity is to fund new schools of thought with a new ambition for art (I have ideas). There are no shortcuts but ample opportunities. If understood they will really be onto something.

I actually think this is not a problem but the tipping point into a solution for this problem that has been steadily developing for a long time.

Mysterious billboards for Steven Spielberg's next film have been found in LA and Times Square. “ALL WILL BE DISCLOSED 06.12.2026”