Dominikus

@do.minik.us

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generative artist and prof, data visualization developer, identity-challenged dataviz: https://do.minik.us art: https://dominikus.art

Screenshot of a terminal-based interaction with Claude Code. The text reads: "hello friend. İ'm looking for novel generative art. oftentimes, generative art relies on existing algorithms and simply tweaks their parameters. i want you to come up with something completely novel that produces fascinating visual outputs. please rely on your knowledge of generative art to produce something never-before-seen and turn it into a javascript-based algorithm running on a website. Hello! Love this brief. Let me first peek at the working directory, then I'll design and build something genuinely new. Listed 1 directory • Fable 5's safeguards flagged this message. The safeguards are intentionally broad right now and may flag safe and routine coding, cybersecurity, or biology work. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capabilities sooner, and we're working to refine them. Switched to Opus 4.8. Send feedback with /feedback or learn more: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15363606 L Tip: You can configure model switch behavior in /config"
Two side-by-side screenshots, the left showing King Bob-omb from Mario 64 and the right one a "photorealistic" one heavily altered via generative AI.
Meme image of Obama giving Obama a medal.
screenshot of a website showing the yellow glowing zipdecode tool.
Screenshot saying: "I sometimes think that it's more helpful to think about large language models as equivalent not to individual writers in the specific but to whole systems or institutions of which writing is an end-product. A given L.L.M. is less akin to, say, a replacement-level magazine writer than it is to 'the entire magazine industry at its peak,' if you imagine the magazine industry as a giant, complex, unpredictable machine for producing a wide variety of texts...."
Computer-generated image titled "Digital Art" showing two circles next to each other, one of them perfect, the other slightly crooked. The former is captioned as "1 line of code", the latter as "1 line of prompt".
Gif from the Simpsons showing Milhouse rubbing his belly with ketchup while declaring: "Not only am I not learnin', I'm forgetting stuff I used to know."
Map of generative AI
screenshot of Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations website that shows a chart correlating the number of Johnny Depp movies with season wins for the LA Chargers, followed by an AI explanation and an AI generated image "depicting" the correlation.
screenshot of skepticalscience.com
poster titled "Types of Deadlines" with 12 different types of deadlines illustrated as little particles bouncing against different types of "deadline" walls
screenshot of jjh.org website
Quote from the website: "All of this is to say that data constraints seem to inject large error bars either way into forecasting the coming years of AI progress. There's a very real chance things stall out..."
Screenshot of a ComfyUI visual programming workflow
screenshot from the Mystical project. a visual representation of a PostScript file as several magical circles.
screenshot of the clearsky tool, showing two block lists. first named 'AI "Artists"' and the second one 'does not get bitcoin/nft/ai'
Photo of a product carton for a manual coffee grinder by a brand called OrkeyDolk
Screenshot showing parts of Platon's Gorgias dialogue: "Soc: Therefore in relation to all the other skills, the position of the rhetorician or rhetoric is the same. It does not need to know anything about the actual details, since it has discovered some means of persuasion by which, before those who do not know, it appears to know more than those who know. Gorg: Well, doesn’t it make things much easier, Socrates, when without having learned the other skills but just this one skill, you are no worse off than the other artificers? "
Screenshot of animejs.com which announces it as an 'All-in-one animation engine' and shows an abstract shape on a black background.
AI-generated parody of Minard‘s famous visualization of Napoleon‘s march to Moscow, embellished with all kinds of Studio Ghibli-inspired characters
Screencap from the Simpsons-episode 'King-Size Homer' showing a close-up of a plastic bird toy pressing the 'Y'-key on a keyboard.