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Gabrielle de la Puente: “What kills me as a fan of painting is how many painters are having to basically become process artists and action artists instead and setting up a camera in order to film themselves doing the painting because actually, what the algorithm cares more about is the verb. They just wanna see paint being pushed along on a canvas in a really satisfying way and they don’t give a shit about the end result because that reel will be seen by potentially tens of thousands of more people than the static studio shot of ‘my new painting’.”
Meghan O’Gieblyn: “Deep learning has revealed a truth that we’ve long tried to outrun: our human minds cannot fathom the full complexity of our world. […] If machines understand reality better than we can, what can we do but submit to their mysterious wisdom?”
Sight and Sound’s list of the 100 greatest films of all time.
In defence of Susan Hussey: “Her sin, if there was one, was being old. Most pensioners are unfamiliar with the wonders of woke etiquette and its pitfalls. There are new strict rules governing what used to be called ‘making conversation’. In asking Ms Fulani where she ‘really’ came from, Susan Hussey was merely repeating what people like her and my late father used to say.”
