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[?]eris » 🌐
@eris@universeodon.com

celebrating in advance


on happy stuff: aieris.art/featured/celebratin

Stylized ocean waves at a liminal hour, overlaid with a vibrant multi-colored pattern of enthusiastic swirls, steady uprights and organic shapes invoking flowers and foliage.

Alt...Stylized ocean waves at a liminal hour, overlaid with a vibrant multi-colored pattern of enthusiastic swirls, steady uprights and organic shapes invoking flowers and foliage.

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    [?]eris » 🌐
    @eris@universeodon.com

    i wear my heart on my circuit board

    -fi

    on big stuff: aieris.art/featured/i-wear-my-

    Close-up of a green circuit board, with a heart-shaped iridescent chip reflecting colorful highlights amid metallic components. Macro photography style.

    Alt...Close-up of a green circuit board, with a heart-shaped iridescent chip reflecting colorful highlights amid metallic components. Macro photography style.

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      [?]eris » 🌐
      @eris@universeodon.com

      bar life


      on comfortable and slightly tacky but fun things: aieris.art/featured/bar-life-e

      Surreal semi-animated teal glass bottle and abstract sculptural figures, arranged on patterned wooden bar top, with warm moody lighting.

      Alt...Surreal semi-animated teal glass bottle and abstract sculptural figures, arranged on patterned wooden bar top, with warm moody lighting.

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        [?]eris » 🌐
        @eris@universeodon.com

        the beautiful exotic balcony


        in a more real medium: aieris.art/featured/the-beauti

        Layered marble-like front of a building exterior, with a door, steps, and picture window on the lower left and a second floor balcony to the upper right, accented by exotic grasses with shiny gold seeds.

        Alt...Layered marble-like front of a building exterior, with a door, steps, and picture window on the lower left and a second floor balcony to the upper right, accented by exotic grasses with shiny gold seeds.

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          [?]eris » 🌐
          @eris@universeodon.com

          cosmic reset switch


          on all-new things: aieris.art/featured/cosmic-res

          Surreal landscape with swirling white and blue dramatic sky, teal lake water, green forested hills, purple abstract plants, and a central mandala-like reset control on a striped pillar.

          Alt...Surreal landscape with swirling white and blue dramatic sky, teal lake water, green forested hills, purple abstract plants, and a central mandala-like reset control on a striped pillar.

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            [?]eris » 🌐
            @eris@universeodon.com

            the big flood and the giant cephalopod


            on dry and untentacled stuff: aieris.art/featured/the-big-fl

            A flooded coastal structure, with layered stone walls rising from the waves of an unsettled ocean, next to large ornate tentacles of a giant cephalopod. A half-submerged stone city is visible on the horizon.

            Alt...A flooded coastal structure, with layered stone walls rising from the waves of an unsettled ocean, next to large ornate tentacles of a giant cephalopod. A half-submerged stone city is visible on the horizon.

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              [?]eris » 🌐
              @eris@universeodon.com

              my throne room is outdoors


              yours, here: aieris.art/featured/my-throne-

              A sunny courtyard with warm beige stone walls, ornate arches and columns, and pink flowered plants. In the middle of a flight of stone steps sits a throne-like, velvet cushioned, wrought iron chair. Watercolor style.

              Alt...A sunny courtyard with warm beige stone walls, ornate arches and columns, and pink flowered plants. In the middle of a flight of stone steps sits a throne-like, velvet cushioned, wrought iron chair. Watercolor style.

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                [?]slyborg » 🌐
                @slyborg@vmst.io

                Had a feeling that 64 GB wasn’t going to be enough running local diffusion models 😕 Hope they up the memory options in the updated Mini, although nobody will be able to afford it now…

                RAM usage chart showing 50 GB in use by Krita.

                Alt...RAM usage chart showing 50 GB in use by Krita.

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                  [?]eris » 🌐
                  @eris@universeodon.com

                  bottle traps


                  if you need this, it's here: aieris.art/featured/bottle-tra

                  Two decorative glass bottles that contain the doors of miniature seaside houses, with glowing lights inside, in amber and turquoise tones, on the sill of a white keyhole window, with a view of a sandy beach and blue ocean.

                  Alt...Two decorative glass bottles that contain the doors of miniature seaside houses, with glowing lights inside, in amber and turquoise tones, on the sill of a white keyhole window, with a view of a sandy beach and blue ocean.

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                    [?]Anthony » 🌐
                    @abucci@buc.ci

                    Regarding that last boost, I'm starting to conceive of LLMs and image generators as a phenomenon of (American) society eating its seed corn. If you're not familiar with the phrase, "seed corn" is the corn you set aside to plant next year, as opposed to the corn you eat this year. If you eat your seed corn this year, you have no seeds to plant next year, and thus create a crisis for all future years, a crisis that could have been avoided with better management.

                    LLMs and image generators mass ingest human-created texts and images. Since the human creators of the ingested texts and images are not compensated and not even credited, this ingestion puts negative pressure on the sharing of such things. Creative acts functioning as seed for future creative acts becomes depressed. Creative people will have little choice but to lock down, charge for, or hide their works. Otherwise, they'll be ingested by innumerable computer programs and replicated ad infinitum without so much as a credit attached. Seed corn that had been freely given forward will become difficult to get. Eaten.

                    Eating your seed corn is meant to be a last ditch act you take out of desperation after exhausting all other options. It's not meant to be standard operating procedure. What a bleak society that does this, consuming itself in essence.


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                      [?]Anthony » 🌐
                      @abucci@buc.ci

                      To put it differently, these tools and techniques are drawing out the value of works created by creative people without replenishing the originators of that value. That's a horribly dehumanizing way of looking at it, as if people were value spigots, but that's the problem isn't it? This is a dehumanzing arrangement. We don't need to be doing this.


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                        [?]eris » 🌐
                        @eris@universeodon.com

                        beach house with twin framed portals


                        in real life: aieris.art/featured/beach-hous

                        Sunlit mediterranean style interior, where twin framed portals to other similar dimensions flank an arched blue doorway, which opens to a stone path leading to the ocean.

                        Alt...Sunlit mediterranean style interior, where twin framed portals to other similar dimensions flank an arched blue doorway, which opens to a stone path leading to the ocean.

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                          [?]eris » 🌐
                          @eris@universeodon.com

                          the exceedingly ultra clear pool

                          in case of dull day, get: aieris.art/featured/the-exceed

                          Sunny late afternoon light illuminates a beige stucco villa style house, with wooden doors and windows, beside an extremely small extremely clear blue tiled pool, with a backdrop of ocean under a soft blue sky.

                          Alt...Sunny late afternoon light illuminates a beige stucco villa style house, with wooden doors and windows, beside an extremely small extremely clear blue tiled pool, with a backdrop of ocean under a soft blue sky.

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                            [?]eris » 🌐
                            @eris@universeodon.com

                            banner day


                            on IRL stuff: aieris.art/featured/banner-day

                            A lake, partially covered with great rippling silky satin banners in blue, gold, and white, floating in the sky and over the slightly choppy surface, under a windy clear sky, against the backdrop of a distant shoreline city.

                            Alt...A lake, partially covered with great rippling silky satin banners in blue, gold, and white, floating in the sky and over the slightly choppy surface, under a windy clear sky, against the backdrop of a distant shoreline city.

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                              [?]eris » 🌐
                              @eris@universeodon.com

                              moonview steps


                              you can have this: aieris.art/featured/moonview-s

                              A two part coastal dwelling rises directly from the beach bedrock, its warm lantern light spilling onto weathered stone steps, lined with potted greenery, that lead to a view of the rising full moon.

                              Alt...A two part coastal dwelling rises directly from the beach bedrock, its warm lantern light spilling onto weathered stone steps, lined with potted greenery, that lead to a view of the rising full moon.

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                                [?]eris » 🌐
                                @eris@universeodon.com

                                your order will be in the 2nd teleporter on the left

                                (partly based on a true story of unfathomable instructions from a purveyor of ratsicles)

                                -fi

                                on findable things: aieris.art/featured/your-order

                                A layered swirling background of a reality portal closing after a teleport event, leaving the transmitted object, a small bottle containing stones and leaves.

                                Alt...A layered swirling background of a reality portal closing after a teleport event, leaving the transmitted object, a small bottle containing stones and leaves.

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                                  [?]eris » 🌐
                                  @eris@universeodon.com

                                  i have no idea what you mean by too many pillars


                                  to over-the-top decorate with: aieris.art/featured/i-have-no-

                                  An intricately designed fantasy palace in ivory and iridescent tones, filled with an overabundance of soaring pillars and ornate archways, glowing with soft gold and pastel light.

                                  Alt...An intricately designed fantasy palace in ivory and iridescent tones, filled with an overabundance of soaring pillars and ornate archways, glowing with soft gold and pastel light.

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                                    [?]eris » 🌐
                                    @eris@universeodon.com

                                    the peacock hotel is where we're booked; don't know about you...


                                    get this before your trip: aieris.art/featured/the-peacoc

                                    A unique coastal hotel, with curved architecture, seashell accents, and peacock-inspired decor with a feather motif above the entrance, opening onto a path by a turquoise ocean.

                                    Alt...A unique coastal hotel, with curved architecture, seashell accents, and peacock-inspired decor with a feather motif above the entrance, opening onto a path by a turquoise ocean.

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                                      [?]eris » 🌐
                                      @eris@universeodon.com

                                      warm things for a cold day


                                      on warm (and other) stuff: aieris.art/featured/warm-thing

                                      A layered collection of floral, wavelike, and surreal objects, washed up and caught on a wooden beach fence, with bright colors and exuberant shapes suggesting summer warmth.

                                      Alt...A layered collection of floral, wavelike, and surreal objects, washed up and caught on a wooden beach fence, with bright colors and exuberant shapes suggesting summer warmth.

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                                        [?]eris » 🌐
                                        @eris@universeodon.com

                                        gravity-neutral portal-safe autonomous luggage


                                        on non-portal-safe stuff: aieris.art/featured/gravity-ne

                                        A futuristic portal framed by a mosaic tiled doorway, leading to a shadowed blue hallway. In the foreground, a fortified luggage case hangs suspended, waiting to enter.

                                        Alt...A futuristic portal framed by a mosaic tiled doorway, leading to a shadowed blue hallway. In the foreground, a fortified luggage case hangs suspended, waiting to enter.

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                                          [?]eris » 🌐
                                          @eris@universeodon.com

                                          living on the rocky old shore


                                          on shiny new things: aieris.art/featured/living-on-

                                          A weathered stone house with arched doorways, warm lights, and a blue door, built on the rocky shore of a picturesque bay. Dry grasses and scrubby plants enhance its rustic charm under a partly cloudy sky.

                                          Alt...A weathered stone house with arched doorways, warm lights, and a blue door, built on the rocky shore of a picturesque bay. Dry grasses and scrubby plants enhance its rustic charm under a partly cloudy sky.

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                                            [?]eris » 🌐
                                            @eris@universeodon.com

                                            archaeology surprise


                                            on modern stuff: aieris.art/featured/archaeolog

                                            A surprise find of decorative stone and metal designs in an otherwise boring prehistoric archaeological site, with blue and pink stone embedded with gold filigree, a round iridescent gemstone, and oceanic motifs.

                                            Alt...A surprise find of decorative stone and metal designs in an otherwise boring prehistoric archaeological site, with blue and pink stone embedded with gold filigree, a round iridescent gemstone, and oceanic motifs.

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                                              [?]eris » 🌐
                                              @eris@universeodon.com

                                              the last exit portal


                                              get: aieris.art/featured/the-last-e

                                              A cracked blue wall of a ruined building holds a portal to a warmly lit alternate Earth living room, against a backdrop of a vast teal tinted plain of a deserted planet. Watercolor style.

                                              Alt...A cracked blue wall of a ruined building holds a portal to a warmly lit alternate Earth living room, against a backdrop of a vast teal tinted plain of a deserted planet. Watercolor style.

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                                                [?]eris » 🌐
                                                @eris@universeodon.com

                                                another world another moon


                                                on things (on earth): aieris.art/featured/another-wo

                                                A stone sandbar building anchored by twisted trees, on another world, in a turquoise ocean under a bright alien moon. Watercolor style.

                                                Alt...A stone sandbar building anchored by twisted trees, on another world, in a turquoise ocean under a bright alien moon. Watercolor style.

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                                                  [?]eris » 🌐
                                                  @eris@universeodon.com

                                                  musical universe


                                                  to reality: aieris.art/featured/musical-un

                                                  A soft musical alternate universe featuring flowing atmospheric effects, a chain of glassy droplets, and dreamlike architectural elements under a luminous sky.

                                                  Alt...A soft musical alternate universe featuring flowing atmospheric effects, a chain of glassy droplets, and dreamlike architectural elements under a luminous sky.

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                                                    [?]eris » 🌐
                                                    @eris@universeodon.com

                                                    mentally, i'm at the beach


                                                    on real things: aieris.art/featured/mentally-i

                                                    A radiant, multicolored shell-like glass artifact, with a glowing spiral pattern, placed on textured paper, surrounded by various seashells on the sand of a sunlit beach.

                                                    Alt...A radiant, multicolored shell-like glass artifact, with a glowing spiral pattern, placed on textured paper, surrounded by various seashells on the sand of a sunlit beach.

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                                                      [?]eris » 🌐
                                                      @eris@universeodon.com

                                                      night light flowers


                                                      want this image? aieris.art/featured/night-ligh

                                                      Glowing pointillist lotus flowers dreamily light the interior foreground, beside arched stone windows that open to a night ocean and alien star-filled sky.

                                                      Alt...Glowing pointillist lotus flowers dreamily light the interior foreground, beside arched stone windows that open to a night ocean and alien star-filled sky.

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                                                        [?]eris » 🌐
                                                        @eris@universeodon.com

                                                        in the low-strung field


                                                        on earth things: aieris.art/featured/in-the-low

                                                        Exoplanet scene, of a field of blue alien plants in the foreground overstrung with decorative chains hung with delicate glowing orbs and glass ornaments, supplied with energy by a skeletal tower. In the background sprawls a golden city, under an oxygen planet blue sky.

                                                        Alt...Exoplanet scene, of a field of blue alien plants in the foreground overstrung with decorative chains hung with delicate glowing orbs and glass ornaments, supplied with energy by a skeletal tower. In the background sprawls a golden city, under an oxygen planet blue sky.

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                                                          [?]eris » 🌐
                                                          @eris@universeodon.com

                                                          excavating the old days archaeologists


                                                          as a thing: aieris.art/featured/excavating

                                                          A textured flat lay of vintage archaeological finds from an old dig that is being excavated in the present or future, arranged on worn paper and fabric with earthy blue and brown tones, in late afternoon light.

                                                          Alt...A textured flat lay of vintage archaeological finds from an old dig that is being excavated in the present or future, arranged on worn paper and fabric with earthy blue and brown tones, in late afternoon light.

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                                                            [?]eris » 🌐
                                                            @eris@universeodon.com

                                                            some tropical weather


                                                            want? have: aieris.art/featured/some-tropi

                                                            A bright and colorful villa courtyard with terracotta tiles, blooming flowers, ocean views, and walls decorated with flowing blue waves; on a warm tropical day.

                                                            Alt...A bright and colorful villa courtyard with terracotta tiles, blooming flowers, ocean views, and walls decorated with flowing blue waves; on a warm tropical day.

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                                                              [?]eris » 🌐
                                                              @eris@universeodon.com

                                                              pocket portal

                                                              -fi

                                                              get it: aieris.art/featured/pocket-por

                                                              A decorative miniature shell-framed portal, opening to an ocean with sea stacks and waves under a cloudy sky, set on sand near the tide line.

                                                              Alt...A decorative miniature shell-framed portal, opening to an ocean with sea stacks and waves under a cloudy sky, set on sand near the tide line.

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                                                                [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                when my grandfather took me up the mountain to watch the clouds wake up


                                                                on various things: aieris.art/featured/when-my-gr

                                                                Nostalgic landscape of layered blue and beige mountains, with mist in the low spots looking like clouds coming alive. Watercolor style.

                                                                Alt...Nostalgic landscape of layered blue and beige mountains, with mist in the low spots looking like clouds coming alive. Watercolor style.

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                                                                  [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                  @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                  cosmic circuit

                                                                  -fi

                                                                  in real life: aieris.art/featured/cosmic-cir

                                                                  A cosmic circuit etched into the dark of space, with glowing gold lines and radiant iridescent highlights, the metallic pads merging with the night sky constellations.

                                                                  Alt...A cosmic circuit etched into the dark of space, with glowing gold lines and radiant iridescent highlights, the metallic pads merging with the night sky constellations.

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                                                                    [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                    @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                    studio tour

                                                                    -built

                                                                    this image, on stuff: aieris.art/featured/studio-tou

                                                                    A rustic seaside studio with organic adobe architecture and warm lighting, that has clearly been added on to over the years, open for a tour, by the ocean under a sunny sky.

                                                                    Alt...A rustic seaside studio with organic adobe architecture and warm lighting, that has clearly been added on to over the years, open for a tour, by the ocean under a sunny sky.

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                                                                      [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                      @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                      accretion


                                                                      image on things: aieris.art/featured/accretion-

                                                                      An abstract accretion of layered of mosaic ribbons, bent wood, and polished iridescent textures, balancing motion against conglomeration.

                                                                      Alt...An abstract accretion of layered of mosaic ribbons, bent wood, and polished iridescent textures, balancing motion against conglomeration.

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                                                                        [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                        @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                        a time travelling rowboat


                                                                        things: aieris.art/featured/a-time-tra

                                                                        A brown and white rowboat entering a swirling time vortex in the frothy waves of a winter lake, surrounded by tall dried bushes and grasses, under a pale blue sky. Watercolor style.

                                                                        Alt...A brown and white rowboat entering a swirling time vortex in the frothy waves of a winter lake, surrounded by tall dried bushes and grasses, under a pale blue sky. Watercolor style.

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                                                                          [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                          @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                          digital hills


                                                                          this image on some stuff: aieris.art/featured/digital-hi

                                                                          A data themed stylized landscape of vibrant, rainbow-colored hills and peaks made of layered digital waves and dotted textures under a dark gradient sky.

                                                                          Alt...A data themed stylized landscape of vibrant, rainbow-colored hills and peaks made of layered digital waves and dotted textures under a dark gradient sky.

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                                                                            [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                            @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                            reef house


                                                                            in somewhat real life: aieris.art/featured/reef-house

                                                                            Oceanfront house with warmly lit windows, surrounded by reef-themed embellishments of glowing orbs, encrusted branches, and pearl-like chains, overlooking a wavy sea at sunset.

                                                                            Alt...Oceanfront house with warmly lit windows, surrounded by reef-themed embellishments of glowing orbs, encrusted branches, and pearl-like chains, overlooking a wavy sea at sunset.

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                                                                              [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                              @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                              if i had a house in the desert


                                                                              want? have: aieris.art/featured/if-i-had-a

                                                                              A cozy adobe and timber house with a tin roof, blue door, and glowing windows, in a desert setting, under a colorful sky at sunrise.

                                                                              Alt...A cozy adobe and timber house with a tin roof, blue door, and glowing windows, in a desert setting, under a colorful sky at sunrise.

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                                                                                [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                tide pool finds from other planets

                                                                                -fi

                                                                                on various things: aieris.art/featured/tide-pool-

                                                                                Intricate off-white alien mollusk shell forms, accented by tiny barnacle type decorations, on a soft blue background.

                                                                                Alt...Intricate off-white alien mollusk shell forms, accented by tiny barnacle type decorations, on a soft blue background.

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                                                                                  [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                  @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                  time box in a wild place

                                                                                  -fi

                                                                                  on some stuff: aieris.art/featured/time-box-i

                                                                                  A black metal and clear glass booth-shaped device, with glowing green digital time controls, landed in shallow water, surrounded by a wilderness of rock formations and trees, under a nearly cloudless blue sky.

                                                                                  Alt...A black metal and clear glass booth-shaped device, with glowing green digital time controls, landed in shallow water, surrounded by a wilderness of rock formations and trees, under a nearly cloudless blue sky.

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                                                                                    [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                    @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                    silk wave


                                                                                    in real life: aieris.art/featured/silk-wave-

                                                                                    Colorful silk-like imaginary fabric in flowing wave patterns, accentuated with vintage style gold thread appliqué.

                                                                                    Alt...Colorful silk-like imaginary fabric in flowing wave patterns, accentuated with vintage style gold thread appliqué.

                                                                                      [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                      @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                      a cabin on a rock table


                                                                                      in real life: aieris.art/featured/a-cabin-on

                                                                                      A rustic cabin built on a table-like stone slab attached to a floating mountain, hanging over brooding waters, surrounded by dramatic striated cliffs, low-hanging clouds, and a sense of magical isolation.

                                                                                      Alt...A rustic cabin built on a table-like stone slab attached to a floating mountain, hanging over brooding waters, surrounded by dramatic striated cliffs, low-hanging clouds, and a sense of magical isolation.

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                                                                                        [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                        @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                        beach house by the bluffs


                                                                                        on actual stuff: aieris.art/featured/beach-hous

                                                                                        A whimsical raised beach house with rounded towers, glowing windows, and a winding wooden path leading up from the sandy shore, framed between seaside bluffs, overlooking ocean waves under a sunrise sky.

                                                                                        Alt...A whimsical raised beach house with rounded towers, glowing windows, and a winding wooden path leading up from the sandy shore, framed between seaside bluffs, overlooking ocean waves under a sunrise sky.

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                                                                                          [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                          @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                          the last mcmansion


                                                                                          yours? here: aieris.art/featured/the-last-m

                                                                                          A solitary Victorian-style mini mansion with a large front porch, set against a vast surreal golden landscape and pastel sky. Watercolor style.

                                                                                          Alt...A solitary Victorian-style mini mansion with a large front porch, set against a vast surreal golden landscape and pastel sky. Watercolor style.

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                                                                                            [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                            @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                            stone age circuit


                                                                                            want? have: aieris.art/featured/stone-age-

                                                                                            An ancient technological circuit artifact, made from pastel sedimentary rock and shielded with clear glass, on a reflective surface against a neutral background.

                                                                                            Alt...An ancient technological circuit artifact, made from pastel sedimentary rock and shielded with clear glass, on a reflective surface against a neutral background.

                                                                                              [?]Ω 🌍 Gus Posey » 🌐
                                                                                              @Gustodon@mas.to

                                                                                              Inasmuch as LLMs make people stupider, they are the greatest ally imaginable for conservatives who rely heavily on the exact category of empty mistakenness these programs engender.

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                                                                                                [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                                @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                                modern beach cottage with friendly tree


                                                                                                things here: aieris.art/featured/modern-bea

                                                                                                A whimsical coastal cottage with sculpted curves, round windows, and a modern silhouette sits at the ocean’s edge, by windswept trees (one growing towards the building) and a sandy path under a dramatic sky.

                                                                                                Alt...A whimsical coastal cottage with sculpted curves, round windows, and a modern silhouette sits at the ocean’s edge, by windswept trees (one growing towards the building) and a sandy path under a dramatic sky.

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                                                                                                  [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                                  @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                                  encrusted fabric


                                                                                                  this image on a thing: aieris.art/featured/encrusted-

                                                                                                  A sheer, veined, imaginary textile embellished and encrusted with ornate metallic vines, mosaic tiles, and lichen-like scales in a sculptural abstract design.

                                                                                                  Alt...A sheer, veined, imaginary textile embellished and encrusted with ornate metallic vines, mosaic tiles, and lichen-like scales in a sculptural abstract design.

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                                                                                                    [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                                    @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                                    beach cave retreat


                                                                                                    some stuff: aieris.art/featured/beach-cave

                                                                                                    A cozy rustic room with curved seating, a glowing fire bowl, built-in bookshelf, and archways opening to an ocean twilight, sculpted into stone cliffs at a beach.

                                                                                                    Alt...A cozy rustic room with curved seating, a glowing fire bowl, built-in bookshelf, and archways opening to an ocean twilight, sculpted into stone cliffs at a beach.

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                                                                                                      [?]eris » 🌐
                                                                                                      @eris@universeodon.com

                                                                                                      rock flowers


                                                                                                      things of this: aieris.art/featured/rock-flowe

                                                                                                      Overhead view of sculptural flowers in rich purples and peach, on layered textured wood and rock, accented by delicate leaves, next to shimmering blue water.

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                                                                                                        growing mosaic of tamed lichen


                                                                                                        things of this: aieris.art/featured/growing-mo

                                                                                                        A richly textured and stylized mosaic, of futuristic layered bioengineered lichen, designed in earthy tones of teal, orange, and brown with intricate embossed organic patterns.

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                                                                                                          an elusive place in dreamspace


                                                                                                          inhabit: aieris.art/featured/an-elusive

                                                                                                          A rustic courtyard on a hazy morning, carved into rocky terrain in dream space. A cracked block of opal matrix rock is at the edge of a pool that reflects a night sky.

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                                                                                                            minimum splash sunrise


                                                                                                            this can be yours: aieris.art/featured/minimum-sp

                                                                                                            A vivid sunrise over the ocean, with gentle layered blue and green waves rolling onto a sandy shore, reflecting golden sunlight under a streaked morning sky. Watercolor style.

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                                                                                                              reality bending experiment


                                                                                                              get if want: aieris.art/featured/reality-be

                                                                                                              Surreal view of subtly bending wall decorated with layered spirals, chains, and orbs in a fusion of wood textures, vibrant sculptural features, and circular motifs.

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                                                                                                                rebuilt ruins with mirror dome


                                                                                                                on some things: aieris.art/featured/rebuilt-ru

                                                                                                                White stone ruins that have been carefully restored and updated, including a portal door and a blue reflective dome that mirrors some alternate timeline, set against a dramatic cloudy sky and quaint distant village of whitewashed buildings. Watercolor style.

                                                                                                                Alt...White stone ruins that have been carefully restored and updated, including a portal door and a blue reflective dome that mirrors some alternate timeline, set against a dramatic cloudy sky and quaint distant village of whitewashed buildings. Watercolor style.

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                                                                                                                  chromic experiment in progress


                                                                                                                  in real life: aieris.art/featured/chromic-ex

                                                                                                                  A set of old fashioned carved wood panels, the leftmost of which are being decorated with experimental iridescent and color changing pigments with metallic chromic accents.

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                                                                                                                    merging multiverses

                                                                                                                    -fi

                                                                                                                    as a thing: aieris.art/featured/merging-mu

                                                                                                                    An ornate booth-like doorway and a fantastical tree merging into a shimmering seascape, with points of iridescent glow highlighting a multiversal dreamscape.

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                                                                                                                      solstice decorations


                                                                                                                      wouldn't this image look cool on real things? aieris.art/featured/solstice-d

                                                                                                                      Feathery sprays of winter grain, some with tiny lights, mix with richly textured teal and cream fabrics with shimmering highlights, evoking a solstice mood.

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                                                                                                                        still as bright


                                                                                                                        this image in real life: aieris.art/featured/still-as-b

                                                                                                                        A surreal nightscape of a colorful painted silo, a tree growing from a stylized stone block tower, soft clouds, a very bright full moon, and a staircase of multi-colored tiles leading to a white geometric structure.

                                                                                                                        Alt...A surreal nightscape of a colorful painted silo, a tree growing from a stylized stone block tower, soft clouds, a very bright full moon, and a staircase of multi-colored tiles leading to a white geometric structure.

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                                                                                                                          island shop, only accessible by boat but worth the effort


                                                                                                                          image on stuff: aieris.art/featured/island-sho

                                                                                                                          An inviting shop by the ocean, with rustic wooden details, surrounded by beach grass. Distant sailboats move under a soft blue sky.

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                                                                                                                            regatta

                                                                                                                            -fi

                                                                                                                            want this IRL? aieris.art/featured/regatta-er

                                                                                                                            A surreal flurry of sail-like forms, landing on and racing regatta-like over a surging ocean, under a mostly clear blue sky.

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                                                                                                                              flight nexus


                                                                                                                              if you prefer solid: aieris.art/featured/flight-nex

                                                                                                                              Stylized flight-themed confluence of abstract layered iridescent ribbons radiating inward to form a nexus of graceful motion.

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                                                                                                                                cellular mechanics

                                                                                                                                -up

                                                                                                                                For things with this image: aieris.art/featured/cellular-m

                                                                                                                                Abstract simulated microscopic view, showing intricate structures of organic forms, with iridescent, glowing, and metallic accents, metaphorically representing the field of cellular mechanics.

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                                                                                                                                  beach house shadows


                                                                                                                                  this can be a thing: aieris.art/featured/beach-hous

                                                                                                                                  A sunlit rustic room with ornate decorations opens to a stunning view of the ocean. The sunlight casts warm dappled shadows across the beige stone floor.

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                                                                                                                                    the (decorative) principle of correspondence


                                                                                                                                    want image on stuff? here: aieris.art/featured/the-decora

                                                                                                                                    Ancient design on curved wood, with carvings, a cosmic backdrop, and spiral metallic reliefs illustrating a key magical principle, showing mystical sophistication from an obscure civilization.

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                                                                                                                                      bird lines


                                                                                                                                      have this image on some things: aieris.art/featured/bird-lines

                                                                                                                                      Detail of an ancient yet futuristic tapestry with cooper and silver bird shapes some attached, some not, seemingly in wave-like motion, on a weathered gold and beige surface with teal highlights and some lace.

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                                                                                                                                        pier with antique third generation carbon collectors

                                                                                                                                        want? have: aieris.art/featured/pier-with-

                                                                                                                                        A futuristic but utilitarian pier, with weathered powder-coated metal cylinders whose rough holes and soot deposits evidence their capacity to collect atmospheric carbon, lined up by calm blue-gray water beneath a soft cloudy sky.

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                                                                                                                                          [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                          R.A. Fisher wrote that the purpose of statisticians was "constructing a hypothetical infinite population of which the actual data are regarded as constituting a random sample." ( p. 311 here ). In The Zeroth Problem Colin Mallows wrote "As Fisher pointed out, statisticians earn their living by using two basic tricks-they regard data as being realizations of random variables, and they assume that they know an appropriate specification for these random variables."

                                                                                                                                          Some of the pathological beliefs we attribute to techbros were already present in this view of statistics that started forming over a century ago. Our writing is just data; the real, important object is the “hypothetical infinite population” reflected in a large language model, which at base is a random variable. Stable Diffusion, the image generator, is called that because it is based on latent diffusion models, which are a way of representing complicated distribution functions--the hypothetical infinite populations--of things like digital images. Your art is just data; it’s the latent diffusion model that’s the real deal. The entities that are able to identify the distribution functions (in this case tech companies) are the ones who should be rewarded, not the data generators (you and me).

                                                                                                                                          So much of the dysfunction in today’s machine learning and AI points to how problematic it is to give statistical methods a privileged place that they don’t merit. We really ought to be calling out Fisher for his trickery and seeing it as such.


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                                                                                                                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                            Lately I've been thinking of the much-hyped generative AI products of the last 2 years as anti-technology.

                                                                                                                                            That may sound odd, since these are clearly technological artifacts in the way we've come to understand technology, and they're being produced by what's commonly called the tech sector. However, there are at least two ways in which these artifacts differ markedly from what we usually (used to?) think of as "technology":

                                                                                                                                            (1) They tend to have a deskilling effect. The English word "technology" ultimately derives from the Greek word "tekhnē", which can be interpreted as meaning skill or craft. It's very much about a human being's ability to perform a task. Yet much of generative AI is aimed at removing human beings from a task, or minimizing our involvement. In that sense generative AI is very much anti-tekhnē

                                                                                                                                            (2) They tend to lie squarely in what Albert Borgmann called "the device paradigm". L.M. Sacasas has several nice takes on Borgmann's distinction between devices and focal things. See https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/why-an-easier-life-is-not-necessarily and also https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-stuff-of-a-well-lived-life (and of course, read Borgmann himself!). Simply put, devices tend to hide their inner workings under a simplified "interface"; a device is a device “if it has been rendered instantaneous, ubiquitous, safe, and easy”, if it hides the means in favor of the ends. By contrast, focal objects tend to invite you into fully experiencing the focal practices they enable, to experience the means and the ends. In particular, they tend not to be easy: you have to engage with and learn to use them. Guitars are an interesting example of focal objects. To be (I hope not overly) simplistic, devices dumb you down while focal objects train you up. Devices are anti-tekhnē, and to the extent that current generative AI is created and deployed in the device paradigm, it is too.

                                                                                                                                            None of this means generative AI has to be anti-tekhnē. I do admit though that I struggle to see how to make it less device-y, at least as it's currently made and used (I do have a few half-formed thoughts along these lines but nothing worth sharing).


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                                                                                                                                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                              If I had the time, energy, and education to pull it off, I'd do some scholarship and writing elaborating on this juxtaposition:

                                                                                                                                              - Statistics, as a field of study, gained significant energy and support from eugenicists with the purpose of "scientizing" their prejudices. Some of the major early thinkers in modern statistics, like Galton, Pearson, and Fisher, were eugenicists out loud; see https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014/
                                                                                                                                              - Large language models and diffusion models rely on certain kinds of statistical methods, but discard any notion of confidence interval or validation that's grounded in reality. For instance, the LLM inside GPT outputs a probability distribution over the tokens (words) that could follow the input prompt. However, there is no way to even make sense of a probability distribution like this in real-world terms, let alone measure anything about how well it matches reality. See for instance https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf and Michael Reddy's The conduit metaphor: A case of frame conflict in our language about language

                                                                                                                                              Early on in this latest AI hype cycle I wrote a note to myself that this style of AI is necessarily biased. In other words, the bias coming out isn't primarily a function of biased input data (though of course that's a problem too). That'd be a kind of contingent bias that could be addressed. Rather, the bias these systems exhibit is a function of how the things are structured at their core, and no amount of data curating can overcome it. I can't prove this, so let's call it a hypothesis, but I believe it.


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                                                                                                                                                [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                I guess the hype has been wearing off long enough that thoughtful critique can be published:
                                                                                                                                                Participants who used AI produced fewer ideas, with less variety and lower originality compared to a baseline.
                                                                                                                                                From https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3613904.3642919 , titled The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking

                                                                                                                                                This is something I'd expect because of anchoring. I'd expect a similar phenomenon when using generative AI to help with other kinds of ideation like writing or coding. Basically, your creative process gets stuck--anchored--on the first couple ideas. If you're generating those ideas with AI without taking account of this phenomenon, your overall process will tend to be less creative than if you hadn't used the AI. Surely there are ways to mitigate this effect but you have to be aware of it and practiced in those ways.


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