SHOW THEME Catherine and James eviscerate flat earth theory and the zombified appetite for "alternate realities" while predicting the future of AI "art".

SHOW NOTES - 00:10 - Honey Bear's rescue story!

• 01:30 - James describes a real dog

• 02:10 - New format flop

• 02:30 - TikTok Flat Earth hilarity

• 03:45 - She gotta be trolling!

• 05:10 - Reason begone, here comes the wacky!

• 05:45 - Ignorance or boredom? Who cares!

• 06:15 - Stupidity rises like cream on social media

• 07:05 - Does the appetite for "alternate realities" affect how we see art?

• 07:45 - Colorado State Fair vs. AI generated art

• 08:05 - AI image generator: Midjourney

• 10:00 - "Hand of the artist" is now "your mind"!

• 11:20 - Riffing from Hudson River, but did anyone know (or care?)

• 14:30 - Questions remain re: digital image sourcing and "sampling"

• 17:49 - Image synthesis via latent diffusion

• 18:25 - Search yourself (and your art) LAION-5B

• 21:10 - Robots are coming for your creativity!

• 22:40 - Put me in your database and re-use my work!

• 23:20 - Severed head Phoestivus

• 26:33 - Interest equals value!

• 27:50 - "Watching the death of artistry..."

• 28:20 - Art communities ban AI generated images

• 29:43 - James looks into an AI crystal ball

• 31:20 - At last, James is correct!