Current thinking on Image Generators and Training Ethics
Training, replication, artistic practice and the commons: my argument for judging corporate AI by what it contributes back.
Lynn Cole / Writing
Writing
Essays, thoughts, and technical notes.
There is still art to cannibalize
Priestess Lynn surveys the destruction of art. There is still plenty to cannibalize.
Agent workflows need feedback, not closed loops
One of the biggest mistakes people are making right now is building closed loops into their agent systems.
How I think: patterns, spatial memory, and creative rabbit holes
Patterns, spatial memory and nonlinear connections shape the way I learn, code and make art. These are the creative rabbit holes that feel natural to me.
Enterprise software’s cognitive pipeline
Enterprise software can learn from marketers: target the information, respect cognitive resources and build engagement into the workflow.
Teaching the coding system what good means
Tell a coding system what good means: your architecture, standards, metaphors, file boundaries and expectations for documentation.
Management is more than giving orders
Good management balances accountability, protects attention and builds a collaborative team. It is much more than giving orders.
An early position on AI art, music, and evidence
An early position on AI art and music: separate corporate training practices from artists’ work, and investigate the data before deciding what it demonstrates.
Into the depths of the Suno Corpus
An early pass through the Suno corpus turns up unusual musical patterns, noisy data and a demanding analysis pipeline. The method still has to earn its conclusions.
CADIE, fiction, and the systems we imagine
CADIE’s fictional story stayed with me as poetry and as a provocation: what kinds of emergent systems, and what kinds of world, could we choose to build?
The End of Jobs as We Know Them
AI changes the cost of scale and the economics of work. I see an inversion coming, where workers can become their own enterprise.
Recognizing my signature in Flux
Recognizing my signature in Flux got me thinking about training, adversarial art and the influence artists leave inside models.