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Saturn Machine Part 3 Removed Tangent : A.I. and ART, a Tool not a Replacement For Creativity

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  Back to the subject of moving too fast into new technologies possibly wrecking ourselves, I spent the last few days experimenting and feeding art and written ideas in one of the newer A.I. art interpretation app concepts I’ve been watching grow up very fast and also I’m using them but I had to think about the ethics for a while before I dove into my own creations. This magick of the modern infowars, now totally doable with just a phone or a half asleep laptop, allows you to write any prompt or upload any of your own images, and it’s so vivid and so good at delivering prompts one would never think would make astonishing art but you can type like “Sinead O Conner surrounded by underwater snake women on the Moon with tiny birthday kitties taking the place of planets and stars in the space behind Sinead O in the tradition of Alex Maleev + movie poster + aqua and lavender color prompts.” So you can fearlessly type detailed really specific prompts cause the app doesn’t just apply a rea...

Saturn Machine (Extended Series : MYS-TECH visuals)

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 As I explain in the Saturn Machine main entry Marvel UK had a light up chakra ankh and sunglasses wearing Angel, a female occultist tied to Transformers villain turned Marvel 90's distinctive hunk of muscle style hero named Death's Head a kind of angry robot Predator no one requested but you inevitably saw them cheap and lonely in comic bins or Wizard inserts regardless. They managed a balance of way too far out tales of ritual magick and ancient demons, or entirely transhumanist Terminator feeling storylines before X-Men2099 would erect a proper playground for such future-centric concepts. I explained how the villains of the MYS-TECH (which actually is defined as blend of magick and high technology and scientific know how) There are a few teams in this UK alliance of heroes such as Pendragon, Doctor Strange and friends (Ghostrider, Wolverine, Spidey, Blade, etc...) and if memory serves EX-Calibur with Majik and so on... So the opposing force is a literally underground black m...