Dreigiau o Gymru. Illustrator of dragons and dinosaurs. All books available in my Etsy shop. Please DM for commission enquiries. He/him. European/Welsh. No AI.
I’ve said this before. I’m going to say it again. A lot of palaeoart is too conservative. This bird’s fossilised remains would most probably contain absolutely no indication of how gloriously weird and wonderful it was when alive. Make. Your. Dinosaurs. Weirder.
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This is why I will defend our Posties until my dying breath.
A parcel dumped at an address a *long* way away, by Amazon, whilst insisting it had been personally handed to me. Their “customer service” couldn’t have cared less.
5 days later it shows up, because my postie had
This is the best AI video I’ve ever seen.
It's Mad Max: Muppets.
Let me take you behind the scenes…
The creator, “billary” on YouTube, used a combo of GPT-4o, Midjourney V5 & V6 to bring this to life.
Picture this:
• Muppet War Boys tearing through the desert
• Kermit as
Incredible how our species was able to build the most amazing, comprehensive resource of all human knowledge and culture, freely accessible to all….
…and then willingly destroyed it in six months to make a handful of snake oil salesmen richer.
I literally hate what we have done with the internet. This is the first list of results for Spinosaurus! Why? How do these rank higher than any legitimate artwork?!
I agree with every word Simon writes here… but you can’t talk about the collapse of the climate and the foundations of civilisation whilst using an AI image to make your point. You simply can’t.
Please do better, scientists. We need to be on the same side.
Science literacy is collapsing.
And with it, the foundations of civilization.
People fear vaccines more than viruses. So diseases we once defeated are coming back.
They fear GMOs more than hunger.
So we reject tools that could feed millions.
They fear nuclear more than climate
As an antidote to the AI garbage that seems to be slowly invading the sci-art space, here is some proper, honest, human-made art. And it is absolutely beautiful.
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I’m convinced that, were it not for the small matter of extinction, Dromaeosaur hatchlings would be competing with cats for “internet’s favourite animal” status.
A little digital painting wot I done... and a reminder to Hollywood: dinosaurs were not monsters. 😉🦖
“Behind the scenes?” Seriously?? Somebody typed some 💩 and an algorithm spewed out more💩. It’s no more complex than that. Please, for the love of god, let’s not pretend there’s some kind of “process” behind this.
However, our results show that the population bounced back and quickly recovered demographically. In fact, we find that the population size and genetic diversity remained fairly stable up until its extinction 6,000 yrs later, showing that the population was not doomed after all!