About Francesco D'Isa

The recent debate over “AI Slop”—a term coined to dismiss AI-generated works as trash—brings to light a host of issues. Some, like Ted Gioia, lament a vaguely defined “good taste” …
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After wearing glasses for a while, you stop noticing them on your nose because the brain filters out the information as irrelevant. Life, after all, is tiring and demands maximum …
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In the alarm-ridden discourse surrounding artificial intelligences, one warning tends to capture the most attention, perhaps due to its apocalyptic flavor: AI will be our downfall; it’s going to wipe …
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In July 2022, the Midjourney platform was still at an embryonic stage and only accessible to few. Back then, I wrote an article (or, rather, two articles) on the topic. …
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I was very young when I began exploring the world of digital art, fascinated by the potential of software like Photoshop. It was version 5.0, which is to today’s version …
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Blake Lemoine is – or was – a Google engineer who recently made a disturbing claim: the LaMDA chatbot he was working on had developed a child-like consciousness. The transcripts …
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Some philosophical ideas have a bad reputation: until a few centuries ago, for example, in Christian Europe it was quite dangerous to profess atheism. Present-day forbidden ideas put you at …
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Whenever I endure injustice, I find relief in reading Giordano Bruno. His wrathful attitude makes him an excellent companion in anger, while his unfortunate example – he burned at the …
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Dear Lou Andreas Salomé:

I met you recently in “Freud”, a Netflix series about the founder of psychoanalysis (or, rather, a random namesake from Vienna), where you play the role …
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If every apocalypse has its own imagery, the allegory of our time looks like two black swans. One is oil-soaked and stumbles in a dried-up lake; the other …
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