AI creativity has arrived, and the reactions range from fascination to panic. This piece explores the divide between “AI slop” and meaningful human-driven art.
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Slop vs Art in the AI Era
AI creativity has arrived, and the reactions range from fascination to panic. This piece explores the divide between “AI slop” and meaningful human-driven art.
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My AI Film “Only a Witch” Hit Top 3 in Google Search
In 2024 I made a 108-minute AI-assisted film alone, before templates, finished pipelines, or AI film studios existed. A year later, it quietly surfaced in top Google search results for broad AI film queries — even while buried on YouTube. This article tracks the evidence, breaks down how it was made, and looks at why an unconventional, handcrafted film built ahead of its time is now finding its audience anyway.
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AI with a Soul: The Rise of Arika & The Amoebas
Arika & The Amoebas is a sci-fi, AI-infused punk project blending raw emotion, rock opera, and digital rebellion—where art fights the algorithm.
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Stop the A.I. Slop!
This is a 17:33-minute music video/AI short film based on hate comments I’ve received on my music videos, which I showcase and incorporate into lyrics. I refute the attacks with art itself. I’ve created 8 music videos since I last shared one here. I explained in my previous post why I disappeared and shared my…
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Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art
This is a re-blog of one of my most popular posts, which I am doing largely because people have notified me that they have difficulty finding it on my blog, though somehow they’re become aware of it. My views haven’t changed substantially since I wrote this, not because I haven’t changed, but because my views…
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Will AI replace human artists?
Art is the last hope of humans to not be eclipsed by AI, because it is a form of communication based on the predicament of our shared humanity, and requires consciousness, feeling, empathy, caring, and intent. But can digital super-intelligence fake it? It looks like it can.
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Bandcamp Banning AI Music Is Needed, but It Is Brute Force Censorship of Art
I’m not defending the tsunami of instant crap out there, but real art is always an exception I know for a fact that AI can create a whole 2:10 song with lyrics in under a minute by clicking one Randomize prompt button and one create button. Want a 4-minute song? Click extend. 👇 You can…
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A New Home for Arika & The Amoebas: Why Substack?
I’m now sharing content on Substack because of a host of serious advantages to the platform for both creators and audience.
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My Struggle With ChatGPT 5
My strugglese with ChatGPT 5 reveal disturbing limitations built into it.
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⭐ 👁 EYE MONSTER — Retro Sci-Fi Rock Music Video for Halloween
Arika & The Amoebas return with a surreal, retro-sci-fi rock video full of eye-popping visuals, guitar fury, and a sharp message about surveillance in the modern age. Watch this original Halloween release that fuses 1950s horror energy with contemporary art and sound.
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Art & Crit by Eric Wayne 