Justin Courtney Pierre

My kid wanted photoshop, so I approved it for her on the condition that she learn it, and help me with my artwork for records and such in the future. I’m conflicted about AI for a myriad of reasons, although not because of replacing humans when it comes to making good art. I think AI is currently mediocre at best. What worries me is that the corporations that run things are going to start churning out mediocre products that people will start getting used to, and that will become the new normal, thus making great art harder to make. But that’s just my uneducated opinion. What I DO think it is useful for is a time saving shortcut to get to the good stuff. Only as it relates to art. The inability for most people to program it to NOT feed them what they want, in terms of information, is what scares me. It’s just going to further our distance from one another and feed into whatever biases and ideologies we already ascribe to, or lean toward. But I digresssssssssassysassysass. With respect to art, AI is just the next evolution of the search engine. Before search engines, we either had to physically go to the library, or if we had money, physically go to the living room and open up the Encyclopedia Britannica. I do hate what it is doing to the environment though. My hope is someone smart as f**k will come along and develop an environmentally sound way to do this s**t, and then we can all move to that.

My hope is that my daughter can start learning this new technology to aid her in her artistic endeavors. Within a year, she’s gonna be great at it because kids are sponges when it comes to information.

So here is her first creation. I’ve included the original image (📷 ) for comparison.

I missed this article when it first came out. I did some research and it’s legit (do your own). I really wish some of those MAGA folk would wake up to the fact that some of them are going to eventually end up there if this s**t keeps heading in the direction it’s heading. I wish they would realize that the government is literally doing the s**t that they were fighting against. I don’t give a s**t how y’all feel about this, but if any of them came over to the side of the resistance, I would welcome them with open arms, despite the vastness of our particular ideologies. There is, or at least could be, some overlap in our Venn diagrams. I am not hopeless, but I am overwhelmed by the daunting nature of the fight in front of us. I don’t know what good it is worrying about things the size and scope of giant detention centers being built, and the insane amount of money being funneled into it. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot I can think of to do in order to prevent that from happening. I’m sure there are people smarter than this idiot working on it. At least I hope so. For the rest of us, I think the thing we can do is to help the people in our neighborhoods who are being targeted, by bringing them food, and driving them places, and making noise, and recording everything, and interfering with 🧊 activity as much as possible. When you break it all down, we’re all just siblings on this planet. Much love to all of you fighting the good fight. ✊🏽♥️👊🏽