Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Perry is on some kind of secret government mission???
Mason showcases a cool AI art project, and some behind-the-scenes processes of integrating AI elements into art.
We explore some more eye-rolling and stupid uses of AI art, including in scientific publishing and the music industry
And we interview Chris Machowski, artist and overall creative powerhouse behind RansomWear.net
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******* NOTES AND REFERENCES *******
AI Usage in Artistic Projects - The Good:
Neural Viz YT Series: Unanswered Oddities youtube.com/watch?v=YGyvLlPad8Q
AI Texture Generation: Polycam https://poly.cam/tools/ai-texture-generator
AI Texture & Depth: Dream Texture https://github.com/carson-katri/dream-textures
AI Usage in Artistic Projects - The Bad:
Scientific Illustrators call out AI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01527-9
Timbaland’s AI Artist “TaTa”: https://archive.md/20250605163855/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/timbaland-new-artist-tata-ai-1235356185/
Ethically sourced training corpus "Common Pile": https://archive.is/20250605163557/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/tech-brief-ai-copyright-report/
US Copyrightability report (Jan 29 2025): https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
Chris Machowski of RansomWear (and many other projects!):
Chris's Art/Merch Shop RansomWear: https://ransomwear.net/
Chris's Personal Website: https://www.chrismachowski.com/
8th Layer Insights (Chris did the art!): https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/8th-layer-insights
******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)
Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458
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