Mark Hanslip

@nkulw this ignores machine learning-based tools people are actually doing interesting shit with (e.g. SampleRNN, RAVE). these get lumped in with AI despite involving zero data theft, and if you try you highlight use of ML in creative work now ppl freak out bc AI discourse is batshit

A defense of the .0000001% use case against the 99.9999999% prevailing reality. Also doesn’t engage with the mass theft of creative labor that is required to make these tools in the first case

@eschadiol surely this is the devil's platform

yet another year of not using the devil's platform enough to curate a spotify wrapped

@sebkrier Bushwick is a very long way to travel just to buy candles if you've just been to a gig at Cafe OTO

It's annoying that a lot of instinctive 'no AI in art' reactions come from crowds who barely engage with art, or when they do it's just occasionally going to Cafe Oto and buying some cringe candles from a Bushwick shop. I sympathise with the disgust at boring one shot prompted fluorescent Bored Ape infused aesthetic images, and painful EDM slop with soulless vocals from Suno - but there are plenty of really interesting art collectives who produce very cool/novel art using AI in creative and non-lazy ways. Obsessing over whether a particular tool is used is pointless; there's plenty of bad music with lazy sampling and cliche progressions, bad Warhol inspired paintings in Soho galleries for tasteless crowds, and artisanal movies produced for basic pattern matchers. The issue isn't whether AI is used or not, but how, for what purpose, as part of what kind of process, and so on. The instinctive "if AI = bad" automated reaction is just lazy. Good to be discerning, but if your criteria for evaluating art is an IF-THEN algorithm, I'm afraid you too are a bot. What *is* true is that the marginal cost of Al slop is effectively zero, so flooding the world with it is infuriating. I do cringe when I see a yellowish ChatGPT generated Ghiblified image on a Substack. But this is an inevitable consequence of lowering the barriers of production. Imo the future will require better walled gardens, offline spaces, better matching algorithms, a greater role for tastemakers, and a proliferation of subcultures. In many ways this has been the case when electronic music no longer required analog gear and giant expensive synths; virtual instruments lowered barriers, but there's more quality music than ever if you know where to look.

@eschadiol Not that it matters at all if it was the boost he needed to say this publicly

@eschadiol I wonder if this is off the back of Linus' sticking it to some random fash online

wasn’t expecting this from theo but i’ll take it, more of you need to be like theo

@JohnBombMcDon @RadishHarmers THIS, the red herring was so much better

@RadishHarmers What annoys me is that the red herring is more fun than the real answer. A red herring should be a shallow, obvious idea that most players immediately recognize as too easy to be correct

Crosswords should give you a gold star as long as you put any word in that matches the clue. It doesn't matter if they match the crossing words.

@frozenreeds Ahaha yes this was a niche red herring

The day I quit Connections forever.

P^2-GAN style transfer on a photo of me playing with Ted Moore at Electric Spring festival in Huddersfield. When machine learning was still fun (2022)

@trevgoes4th @ATaylorFPGA @DuxVult1 😂 you're confusing me with someone who can't spot a paid troll

@markhanslip @ATaylorFPGA @DuxVult1 arts grads have no skills in the value add economy you're confusing them with entertainers and pop stars

The oversupply of crap grads is starting to hit the mainstream 35% of kids going to Uni, getting a 2:2 and graduating into a flat economy in £50k of debt is a road to ruin We were early again @trevgoes4th

@trevgoes4th @ATaylorFPGA @DuxVult1 Here we go 🧌 Whatever Adam has done with FPGAs doesn't qualify him to comment on the skills of arts graduates on on the perceived bureaucracy that he struggles against daily. And you might be surprised to hear that musicians can create jobs and build businesses too, Mr Troll.

@markhanslip @ATaylorFPGA @DuxVult1 you're a musician Adam has built a business in electronic hardware and created jobs you are not the same

@ATaylorFPGA @DuxVult1 @trevgoes4th Erm. "Arts graduates have no skills and go on to create unnecessary bureaucracy" is quite the take. I see so many of your takes on here that I suspect you are being paid to spout them.

The world does not need hundreds of thousands of arts graduates. Worse they think they then need professional jobs, but have no skills so those do not go back to school as teachers (another issue for a later time) gets professional jobs that create red tape and regulation. Further destroying the economy

@eschadiol Please do!

might fuck around and chain post the hardest tattoo artists i follow this weekend

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

@eschadiol @sevware 😦

@sevware the tail end of that one was “… where you’re welcome”

my dad to me: “you wouldn’t get harassed if you just dressed like a man” “you wouldn’t be targeted if you just kept quiet” “if you lose your job just start your own business” “if it gets bad just move to thailand” “if you get killed just accept jesus” “just pray more”

@eschadiol I'm shortly to book in with him and I'm pretty sure your arm was my first sighting 🖤💫

artist: blxsj based in south korea

@ATaylorFPGA @annaturley You seem to view any kind of public sector spending purely as an expense, rather than recognising the investments from which we all benefit. Baffles me that you can wrap your head around FPGA programming but not this.

@annaturley It is not affordable, this is not a good thing you are spending us to bankruptcy.

Tonight we voted for a 16% increase in Universal Credit over the next 4 years. That will make a massive difference in people’s pockets. 🌹

Playing solo tonight at the Leeds Free Music Showcase @wharfchamberscc 7pm start, link to tickets in bio #electroacoustic #saxophonist #tenorsaxophone #supercollider #machinelearning #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic

Playing a solo set tonight @Openealing 7:30pm start #experimentalmusic #improvisedmusic #saxophonist #tenorsaxophone #machinelearning #supercollider #electroacoustic

Looking forward to playing a couple of solo sets this weekend - Ealing Extranormal at OPEN Ealing Arts Centre) on Saturday 17/05 and Leeds Free Music Showcase at Wharf Chambers on Sunday 18/05 #saxophonist #electroacoustic #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #machinelearning

Tonight in Liverpool!