The chicken poop truck came yesterday.
To spread the last of our natural manure onto the organic fields. And yes! The pong was as awful as usual. However there was rain in the forecast so they worked late.
I wrote late ( too noisy to sleep) so was able to film this two tractor fly-by outside the Goldilocks windows. Cheeky bastards. 🤭
My son who works in the film industry sent me this link (below) yesterday. Above is real. Below is AI. Another reason why I worked late last night. Research.
I know that AI and its developers have nothing to do with farming but it has everything to do with viewing and to a large extent truth. (And possibly to whether my children in the film industry will have their jobs for much longer).
I strive to stay very up to date. But AI is racing forward at an astonishing rate.
While, up until now, we could easily create a static image by entering a description into an AI visual program, soon, we – literally you or I – can create a movie by writing a little paragraph.
Now I see how that sounds exciting but it also sounds horrifying. All the assets (the image of the wooly mammoth for instance are owned by the company who paid the artist to draw them) so just the legal ramifications are blowing my mind. AI does not do the art, it remakes the art from data it has collected. So, much of the illegal visual resources will come from images in the public realm that have already been collected.
Not all of it will be bad. Much of it will be great fun. The legal stuff will be great!
Just believe none of it. When you see images that are designed to change your mind or inform triangulate the information from unrelated sources. This developing AI will impact the news immeasurably because these little scenes can be made and published super fast by bad players with financial and political agendas.
Then re-posted by idiots who don’t care to fact check it.
And it highlights the work of showing ordinary farm images and ordinary natural video (at TKG Take Ten), (and right here) as all the more important. We need to stay grounded in reality with people we trust. As a benchmark.
🌻 I think I will make a stew today. It is that kind of day. There is still rain about. And it will cool back off.
Celi
Tonight’s TKG Take Ten will be a very real squall in the black night. Thunder and lightning. (As long as I can upload it – internet is very intermittent and weak today! They can make scenes from a sentence but we still can’t get reliable rural internet without shelling out an astronomical amount of money. Which I just won’t do. Pigs need to be fed first.
The Kitchen's Garden 
12 responses to “This kept me working late last night”
Local news just last night had local artists discussing this very topic related to AI. I find it overall concerning in so many ways, including artists and their livelihood for sure. The social ramifications are huge in a world already drowning in lies and mistrust. Many will be like the cat in the box, simply burying their heads and remaining oblivious to it all.
May the winds be non-existent for you today given the poop fields! I think (hope) that even with the need to tolerate the smell at times you feel pride in the fact that you have re-made how this farm is worked over the years. I would choose poop to chemical smells and destruction any day 🙂
The tilling and the rain knocked the smell back – thankfully!
A huge thumbs down to all this augmented reality from me. I do acknowledge that much good and helpful things are happening in the world of ai but it’s the not knowing good from bad, right from wrong which is so bewildering and frightening. Still, what l do understand as good is the covering of chicken shit all over your fields, despite the ensuing late night.
Bewildering is the best word and trying to avoid that makes me more determined to get a handle on all this as it moves along. I look forward to many great chats with my sons when I get to NZ.
The film industry is already pumping out very bland films, I can only see them getting worse with A.I. Rabbit stew with ‘nduja here tonight!
OO! Rabbit stew – that reminds me of my granmother!
I am extremely concerned already about doctored images and videos, so AI is terrifying to me. What is real? What is truth? There is already a group in this country who seems to believe in fantasies.
The images people can create in the political fantasy realm are incredible.!!
AI is a very real worry. It seems that people are more and more divorced from the real world—-you know, that place where we all live. Every one seems to be deep into their phones, getting or lusting after a Vision-Pro to have fun with, and AI is, as you say, hurtling towards us. Hurtling with very little sense it seems from the purveyors of it as to the very real downside——most of what you hear is the positive and very little about the negative. That’s always the fly in the ointment. There is usually a positive which will hopefully balance, or maybe not, the negative. Considering the inevitable negatives and therefore moving slowly toward the utopia ahead is always a good plan but it doesn’t seem to be happening.
Don’t worry, I’m just a natural born pessimist.
Maybe not as much a pessimist as a realist but we do need all kinds!
AI betrays itself by either gross visual errors or by unnatural perfection. I’ve seen bizarre images created from a quite precise description, and equally the perfection of the detail in the background is telling because neither the camera nor the human eye builds that level of detail. I like your video of the dancing tractors, and the reflected Celi in the last part, which I don’t think AI would have given us!
reality is so much richer. But the extra fingers and unfocused eyes will get better. AI is learning all the time. There are fantastic research images of well known political figures in surprising tableau’s of followers. Very interesting.