#generative — Public Fediverse posts

Julia set of the day:
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#fractal #generative

Julia set of the day:
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#fractal #generative

Is AI Slop an AI problem or a human problem?

There are a lot of posts on various platforms about how AI is generating ‘slop’, and it is actually costing a lot of time to take what was generated and put it right. Cleaning up after AI is something people are even incorporating into their online biographies. On the other hand, others indicate they’re getting good results. So what is the reality? I think what we’re seeing is a combination of factors, but there is a healthy dose of human behaviour amplifying the issue.

There is no getting around how well a publicly available foundation AI can perform, depending on the availability of content for training. Providing simple Python logic, which has been asked for with clear precision and expressed clearly, is likely to yield positive results – that’s simply a function of the amount of accessible content on the web. If you asked an AI to generate formal method notations like Z or VDM – good luck.

But when we see what, on the surface, looks good, it is easy to be taken in and start to trust the LLM. Combine that with several other factors:

• Humans, by our nature, will tend to minimise effort (or, if you want to be crass with language, lazy). You can see this through things like UX design principles that advocate avoiding ‘cognitive load‘ and ‘choice overload’ (the idea that we can only cope with so much information in working memory, going beyond that, we are more likely to make mistakes or need to apply more cognitive effort), through to George Kingsley Zipf’s Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort.
• When we hand a task to an AI, the way LLMs work means that it will seek to provide an answer, rather than say sorry, can’t get an answer (if we did that, then the principle of least effort would explain why we’d give up with it). So we’re going to get a result, whereas the non-LLM route means we won’t see its incorrect until we’ve finished. When it comes to coding, the LLM is unlikely to make the coding errors we can make as humans, but the code it produces may not be as elegant or efficient, may not address all the edge cases, and may even miss the problem we want to solve. But the outcome will be executable.
• Next issue is the quality of prompting: as humans, we have (generally) good long-term memory, and even if we forget specifics, we build a strong contextual understanding that we use. But the LLM doesn’t have this; it doesn’t know whether we’re trying an idea out or writing code that needs to be bombproof and extremely scalable. We have to define that very explicitly. If we’re working with a new or junior developer, we understand that we shouldn’t make these assumptions and will seek verbal and nonverbal feedback if there are issues with clarity or expectations.
• When building things manually, each step we take to create the solution (whether that’s code or a PowerPoint) is slower, and we have more time to evaluate what we want to do, how we want to do it, and why we want to do things a particular way. In some respects, the LLM approach is like code reviewing. For a proper review, the reviewer is going to walk through each line of code and evaluate it – a process that can be lengthy. But under time pressure, what often happens is we’ll take a 1st fast pass to look for the ‘bad smells’ and pick up on any obvious issues. Then zero in on the bad smells, or at least the worst ones, and look more closely. But the time pressure, knowing the tooling we have to help eliminate issues, and the mental effort to quickly understand a lot of code take their toll. This, to varying degrees, is exactly what happens with LLM artefacts, except that the rate at which code can be properly reviewed is now a real issue relative to the rate of generation.
• Commerce has always been about either innovating to compete or doing things more quickly and cheaply. That pressure has grown as technology has advanced, creating the potential to do more. As a result, it is not surprising to see that pressure results in code being generated, even if that is likely to drive an unwitting accumulation of technical debt that will bite in the years to come. Furthermore, recognising poor-quality code takes experience. Which means expensive engineers. It is possible to appreciate that a non-technical person can generate a basic desktop utility using ChatGPT.

As you can see, there are plenty of things we, as humans, can do to mitigate ‘AI slop’ and get AI delivering value, quality, and velocity.

Conclusion

The bottom line here is an issue of expectation. We wouldn’t be so harsh as to ask someone with dyscalculia to produce a company’s accounts using only a pencil and paper. Another way to look at it, you’d not ask an unqualified accountant to do your tax return. But that is often what is happening, Someone with dyscalculia could easily ‘hallucinate’ the numbers. An unqualified person is not going to know all the rules needed to complete a tax return well enough to minimise tax exposure.

to err is human; to persist in error is diabolical

Saint Augustine

It is human to make mistakes, and poorly directing (or training) an LLM is certainly an error. But we know this is possible, so we should consider what the code is for and take appropriate steps to mitigate it, working to improve the way prompts are given and context is provided to enable better outcomes.

What is clear to me is that ‘AI slop’ isn’t going away soon, and that, as engineers, we have to get better at promoting to get the best code we can out of an LLM. While it would be nice to think that the industry will realise that LLMs are not a panacea, and you still need those expensive engineers to prompt an LLM so that they don’t generate unnecessary reams of low-grade, brittle code.

The question really has to be, who is going to build an LLM model and agents that can pre-screen code and call out AI ‘slop’, saving code reviewers (particularly those who are looking after the open-source solutions on which so many of us depend). If Anthropic’s Mythos finds 20-year-old bugs, we should be able to help protect open-source projects from low-quality, poorly prompted AI-generated code.

Julia set of the day:
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#fractal #generative

oMLX is one of the cleanest ways to run local AI models on a Mac. You install the app, download models, and manage everything from a native macOS menu bar app and web dashboard.

https://firethering.com/omlx-local-llm-server-macos/

#opensource #artificialintelligence #ai #generative #technews #google #github #news #tech #software

Julia set of the day:
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#fractal #generative

Julia set of the day:
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#fractal #generative

Julia set of the day:
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#fractal #generative

Julia set of the day:
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\]

#fractal #generative

https://youtu.be/1EQHcbaQDCk

E618: "Friday Afternoon Test Session 1"
🎵 Bruno Mars - Runaway Baby
Testing stuff on a Friday afternoon so could crank the sound system a bit :-)

#creativecoding #madewithunity #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive #audioreactive #audioreactivevisuals #motiongraphics

https://youtu.be/1EQHcbaQDCk

E618: "Friday Afternoon Test Session 1"
🎵 Bruno Mars - Runaway Baby
Testing stuff on a Friday afternoon so could crank the sound system a bit :-)

#creativecoding #madewithunity #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive #audioreactive #audioreactivevisuals #motiongraphics

FotoVorschlag: Unerwartetes Ergebnis / Surprising result

Still trying to predict what the output will be given an input movie and settings for the slitscan program. This used a downward-panning shot of a street scene in Vietnam

#slitscan #FotoVorschlag #photography #Processing #procedural #generative #GenerativeArt #MathArt #vietnam

Julia set of the day:
\[
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\]

#fractal #generative

An early experiment with slitscan processing, made from a movie of Balinese dancer. (Vertical video has some uses, after all.)

Made with Martin Dixon's Processing code, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20190206054257/http://www.slitcam.com

#slitscan #photography #Processing #procedural #generative #GenerativeArt #MathArt #Bali #dance

I did most of the programming for these in Malmö airport and the train home from London to Birmingham. Very normal travel activities.

#creativecoding #generative #generativeart #visuals

I've figured out video!

I need to work out how to get crisper pixels but this is a good development.

#creativecoding #generative #generativeart #visuals

#Sewing #Processing #CreativeCoding #Procedural #Generative #Art #GenerativeArt #Math #MathArt #Geometry

#Generative #AI “enables a theoretically infinite supply of lemons. [Will] #publishers … credibly signal quality in ways that are costly for lemon-farmers to fake? #Editorial #judgment [—that’s what is needed, rather] than just production efficiency.” https://www.georgewalkley.com/ECPA-conference-reflections/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/923590/ UK Generative AI Market: Size, Trends, and Growth Outlook #AI #and #Britain #England #generative #GreatBritain #Growth #market #NorthernIreland #outlook #Scotland #size #trends #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

https://www.europesays.com/britain/23784/ UK Generative AI Market: Size, Trends, and Growth Outlook #ai #and #generative #Growth #market #outlook #size #Trends #UK #UnitedKingdom

This Patch Sounds Like Sitting on a Rooftop in the Rain 👉 https://youtu.be/q8cypCToodo

#bitwig #ambient #musicproduction #musodon #generative

Governing Generative AI: Epistemic Risks in Knowledge Production and Decision Making

<https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/332909/governing-generative-ai-epistemic-risks-in-knowledge-production-and-decision-making>

Submission open date: 1st July 2026

Submission deadline: 31st December 2026

All manuscripts should be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be peer-reviewed in accordance with Technological Forecasting and Social Change's standard policies.

＂Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a technological capability, it is also a socio-technical governance challenge that demands systemic inquiry. This Special Issue shifts attention from generative AI as a standalone tool or application to generative AI as an epistemic technology that reshapes knowledge production, decision-making, and coordination across organizational, market, and public-sector settings. By bringing together perspectives from technological forecasting, innovation studies, organizational research, and socio-technical systems theory, this Special Issue aims to explore how epistemic risks emerge and propagate within complex systems, and how overreliance on AI-generated outputs, manifesting as automation bias, deskilling, and the erosion of human judgement and oversight, can amplify these risks in knowledge and decision process, and how governance mechanisms can be designed to anticipate, manage, and mitigate their long-term societal consequences. Contributions will advance theory and provide forward-looking insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with governing generative AI in an increasingly uncertain and algorithmically mediated future.

…＂

#governance #knowledge #risk #decision #generative #AI

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/96157/ L’IA générative peut aider les scientifiques à relier les nombreuses couches du cancer #Aider #Cancer #couches #générative #Health #l39IA #les #nombreuses #peut #relier #Santé #scientifiques #Suisse

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/80074/ L’IA générative peut aider les scientifiques à relier les nombreuses couches du cancer #Aider #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #cancer #couches #générative #Health #l39IA #Les #nombreuses #peut #relier #Santé #Scientifiques

#Researchers, are you using large language models — #LLMs, a type of #generative #artificial #intelligence — to create #reference #lists for your #research #papers, or even to #write your papers entirely? Read this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kokedit_hallucinated-citations-are-polluting-the-share-7450955385710112768-4-Kw.

While working on the physics engine mentioned in my last post I needed a visualization of the path they moved on to verify that the collision works right.

And this is a moment of such a path visualization.
I also thought about an interesting image by using some blur on the path or the whole image, or making the path more broken and interesting.

Thank you for following and liking my work. And a welcome to the new followers of the last days.

Created by me. No AI.

#path #walk #movement #bluesky #showtime #waved #genuary #genart #art #mastoart #fediart #p5js #noai #genuary2026 #code #math #programming #artwork #minimalism #coding #generativeart #generative #artforsale #simplify #creativecoding #random

Rectangle Regions

Made this in Processing using a frame buffer where each point was made to be part of any number of rectangles, and the color of an intersecting region is obtained by adding up the colors of the component rectangles and performing a modulus operation.

#Generative #GenerativeArt #Processing #CreativeCoding #Geometry #Geometric #GeometricArt #Math #Maths #Mathematical #MathArt #Colorful #Colourful #Abstract #AbstractArt #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

After working with many different game and physics engines I decided to work on my own physics engine and maybe extend it later for games.

During experiments and debugging, I get interesting forms and patterns, that I want to share.

Here you see circles with the connection to the closest point on the wall/line in the middle.
And I really like this pattern reminding me of a mindmap-like construct.

Did you work on something and the result was totally different or for another purpose?

Created my me. No AI.

#circle #mindmap #connections #gamedev #game #godot #phaser #pygame #unity #lines #graphics #office #waved #genuary #genart #art #mastoart #fediart #p5js #noai #genuary2026 #code #math #programming #artwork #minimalism #coding #generativeart #generative #artforsale #simplify #creativecoding #random

For this creation I worked on a brush-like dot that I used for the rows.

For me it looks a little retro and like a carpet. But overall I just decided to share it here.

This and the next renders will have some colors because it's spring and the sun is shining, so I am influenced by the beautiful colors around me.

[ The artwork displayed here was created by me. Without AI. Use fairly. ]

#waved #dot #brush #carpet #retro #house #handmade #genuary #genart #art #mastoart #fediart #p5js #noai #genuary2026 #code #math #programming #artwork #minimalism #coding #generativeart #generative #artforsale #simplify #creativecoding #random

Ghoul

Deep horror art that I dug up from my old Dall-E Mini outputs and added some effects to.

#Horror #HorrorArt #Dark #DarkArt #Creepy #Creepypasta #Monster #Ghoul #Spectre #Static #Glitch #Glitchy #Found #Footage #FoundFootage #DallE #Synthography #Generative #GenerativeArt #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

Ghoul

Deep horror art that I dug up from my old Dall-E Mini outputs and added some effects to.

#Horror #HorrorArt #Dark #DarkArt #Creepy #Creepypasta #Monster #Ghoul #Spectre #Static #Glitch #Glitchy #Found #Footage #FoundFootage #DallE #Synthography #Generative #GenerativeArt #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

Ghoul

Deep horror art that I dug up from my old Dall-E Mini outputs and added some effects to.

#Horror #HorrorArt #Dark #DarkArt #Creepy #Creepypasta #Monster #Ghoul #Spectre #Static #Glitch #Glitchy #Found #Footage #FoundFootage #DallE #Synthography #Generative #GenerativeArt #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

Back to generative art I created a line grid looking like a street map. I tried curves but I wanted to stick to a contrast to the other smooth creations.

For inspiration of what to try I often look into nature with these awesome structures. Plants, water forming sand but also the macro view of landscapes, mountains and clouds.

What is your favorite source of forms?

#lines #street #maps #nature #smooth #genuary #genart #art #mastoart #fediart #p5js #noai #genuary2026 #code #math #programming #artwork #minimalism #coding #generativeart #generative #artforsale #simplify #creativecoding #random #map #grid

Psychedelic Idealism IV

#generative #drawing #Kant #generativeart #art

Psychedelic Idealism III

#generative #drawing #Kant #generativeart #art

Bing Satellites – Voyage to the Sun
#Ambient #Electronic #Experimental #NewAge #atmospheric #chillout #drone #fieldrecordings #generative #meditation #shoegaze #soundscapes #space #tapeloops #Manchester
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/voyage-to-the-sun

Good article on how to pick A.I. generated images, complete with lots of examples to compare.
I did so well on the quiz (picked the real photo 9 of 12 times), they said "Try talking to someone besides Siri for a while" LOL
#GenAI #generative #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial #intelligence #image #creation #tool #application #create #count #fingers #detect #examine #consider #photo #realistic #picture #blur #background #extra #kitchen #sink
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/human-or-ai-these-7-clues-will-help-you-spot-fake-images-immediately

Good article on how to pick A.I. generated images, complete with lots of examples to compare.
I did so well on the quiz (picked the real photo 9 of 12 times), they said "Try talking to someone besides Siri for a while" LOL
#GenAI #generative #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial #intelligence #image #creation #tool #application #create #count #fingers #detect #examine #consider #photo #realistic #picture #blur #background #extra #kitchen #sink
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/human-or-ai-these-7-clues-will-help-you-spot-fake-images-immediately

Good article on how to pick A.I. generated images, complete with lots of examples to compare.
I did so well on the quiz (picked the real photo 9 of 12 times), they said "Try talking to someone besides Siri for a while" LOL
#GenAI #generative #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial #intelligence #image #creation #tool #application #create #count #fingers #detect #examine #consider #photo #realistic #picture #blur #background #extra #kitchen #sink
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/human-or-ai-these-7-clues-will-help-you-spot-fake-images-immediately

Good article on how to pick A.I. generated images, complete with lots of examples to compare.
I did so well on the quiz (picked the real photo 9 of 12 times), they said "Try talking to someone besides Siri for a while" LOL
#GenAI #generative #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial #intelligence #image #creation #tool #application #create #count #fingers #detect #examine #consider #photo #realistic #picture #blur #background #extra #kitchen #sink
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/human-or-ai-these-7-clues-will-help-you-spot-fake-images-immediately

Good article on how to pick A.I. generated images, complete with lots of examples to compare.
I did so well on the quiz (picked the real photo 9 of 12 times), they said "Try talking to someone besides Siri for a while" LOL
#GenAI #generative #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial #intelligence #image #creation #tool #application #create #count #fingers #detect #examine #consider #photo #realistic #picture #blur #background #extra #kitchen #sink
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/human-or-ai-these-7-clues-will-help-you-spot-fake-images-immediately

Here's a hair like structure made with a vector-flow-field added variables for example for the transparency and a circular constraint.

In the last Genuary I made this looking more like fur and I wanted to come back to it.
Also, my hair looks a little like this. ;)

In the last days I think of combining these artistic structures with a game. So maybe a character running with such a flow field behind him or transitions made with the dithering I made some time ago.

Would you play and look into such a game?

#hair #vector #flow #field #bw #nature #human #haircut #hairstyles #worm #genuary #genart #art #mastoart #fediart #p5js #noai #genuary2026 #code #math #programming #artwork #minimalism #coding #generativeart #generative #artforsale #simplify #creativecoding #random

https://youtu.be/Of5nSEOL1as

E572: "Frozen Sim Buffers 6 (Floor Spawn)"
Another test of the "SuperHot" style interaction where the fluid sim only processes when it detects motion in front of the screen. I should probably make a version where the particle motion completely freezes up as well and see how that compares (probably easier to visually read).

#creativecoding #madewithunity #hdrp #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive

https://youtu.be/Of5nSEOL1as

E572: "Frozen Sim Buffers 6 (Floor Spawn)"
Another test of the "SuperHot" style interaction where the fluid sim only processes when it detects motion in front of the screen. I should probably make a version where the particle motion completely freezes up as well and see how that compares (probably easier to visually read).

#creativecoding #madewithunity #hdrp #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive

WORKSHOP: Coding Musical Patterns - Algorithmic Composition, Generative Growth, and the Music of Math
Mads Kjeldgaard

Saturday 25.4.26 and Sunday 26.4.26
11am - 4pm with breaks

at Morphine Raum in Berlin, Germany. Organized by Hyperlinear. Poster by @joegilmore. More info below.

#supercollider #algorithmiccomposition #generative #generativeart #computermusic

Bing Satellites – Hypnosis Tapes volume one
#Ambient #Electronic #Experimental #NewAge #atmospheric #chillout #drone #droneambient #fieldrecordings #generative #hypnosis #meditation #shoegaze #soundscapes #Manchester
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/hypnosis-tapes-volume-one

Bing Satellites – Hypnosis Tapes volume two
#Ambient #Experimental #NewAge #atmospheric #chillout #drone #fieldrecordings #generative #hypnosis #landscape #meditation #shoegaze #soundscapes #tapeloops #Manchester
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/hypnosis-tapes-volume-two

https://youtu.be/nqZKDqfD3eA

E570: "It's Over 5,000! (Followers on Instagram)"
Wowzers! 5,000 followers, eh?

#creativecoding #madewithunity #hdrp #vfxgraph #shadergraph #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive

https://youtu.be/nqZKDqfD3eA

E570: "It's Over 5,000! (Followers on Instagram)"
Wowzers! 5,000 followers, eh?

#creativecoding #madewithunity #hdrp #vfxgraph #shadergraph #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive