Patrick Stokes
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Where did the future go? Our obsession with dystopias shows a real failure of imagination
Post-apocalypse stories like Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars have a long history – but lately they've been changing.
Wabi-sabi or sloppy? How to tell authentic from slapdash
In an age of artificial perfection, wabi-sabi is a refuge that offers lessons for embracing the human in art and…
You write like AI, people think it’s AI generated—what should you do?
AI writing can be obvious, repetitive and obvious, leading to a tapestry of issues for human writers—let's delve into this…
Copyright win for Australian artists vs AI – but how long can we hold off the bots?
The Australian government has ruled out a copyright fee carve-out for training AI – which seems like good news, for…
GenAI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?
Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that…
Separate the art from the artist? A handy moral checklist
A few questions you can ask to help you navigate the perennial moral dilemma: can we separate the art from…