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Welcome to the Semantic Apocalypse

by greg_V on 3/28/25, 10:20 AM with 2 comments

• by turtleyacht on 3/28/25, 10:57 AM

  AI encodes the design of an art style (pattern), reifies it, and then generates an implementation--the artifact, the picture.

  From an idea (pattern), there are many different reifications (designs). From one design, there are many implementations (IP with birds [1]).

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

• by xg15 on 3/28/25, 12:20 PM

  > That picture of my kids reading together above, which is from a real photo—I exclaimed in delight when it appeared in the chat window like magic. So I totally get it. It’s a softer world when you have Ghibli glasses on. But by the time I made the third picture, it was less fun. A creeping sadness set in.

  Silicon Valley finally disrupted Studio Ghibli! Are you proud yet?