“For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. She even went so far as to concoct details about things like currency and eating utensils.”
[more here]
Powerful machine-learning techniques (see “The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI”) are making it increasingly easy to manipulate or generate realistic video and audio, and to impersonate anyone you want with amazing accuracy.
[via Technology Review]
Robert Rushkin: my new (non-existent) favourite artist. Video by The Builders Club…
Last February, artists David OReilly and Kim Laughton created a blog called #HyperRealCG, in which they post banal photographs and then claim that they’re CG. Pretty much every tech blog falled for it.
Matthew Albanese constructs small-scale meticulously detailed models using various materials and objects to create emotive landscapes. The real-fake aestethic that results is strangely attractive…
Imperdibile, dal sito di Tommaso Labranca: Adelphake!
