Algorithms on Creativity Hacker

Spinners of the Web

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:54:09 +0000

The internet is full of advice on how to spot AI-generated images, videos, articles, newscasts, etc. But IMO, that’s entirely the wrong conversation.

Forget “How do we spot them?” We need to be talking about how society is going to function when the answer is: You can’t.

DoppelRender

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:24:20 +0000

Ever notice how much time you spend rendering identical images? Maybe your animated character pauses to think, or maybe you’re just using (and reusing) a limited number of poses. But sometimes it seems that over half the frames you devote precious time to rendering are identical to the frames you’ve already rendered. Sure, you can try to keep track of which ones are duplicates and then wrangle those files by hand, but situations get complicated quickly, and it ends up being easier to just bite the extra render time and save yourself the headache.

Happy Skunk Lifts Dishwasher

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:55:29 +0000

This guy looks happy, and he should, because he’s the newly selected poster boy for the system that will generate new Maranginator game bags. Confused? Me too. Come on inside and let’s figure out what I’m talking about.