Hi @castleberry,

Your post is a great synthesis of the state of the art so far. What a work and artwork !
It clearly demonstrates the added value an artist can bring when you just give him new tools, bringing back the original definitions of latin artifex, where the artisan who has acquired a technique, a mastery of execution and a know-how, allows him to skilfully produce a model or even to invent new ones; here in this case, we forge digital matter as raw material and our hammers are notebooks and programs.

Interesting to see that you touch the sensitive bias of NSFW detection algorithms. They are too sensitive to my opinion, but this might be my own cultural perceptions. But at least it shows how much work there is still to do in that field to cope with our human judgement and way to perceive reality, and also how dangerous massive filtering can become massive censorship.

For example, so far an Ai is still not able to perceive the Carmen music association to your "Red Spawn" clip, bringing to my perspective a much more lustful call to joyful pleasures than the Red Dawn clip. Altough the two pieces are sharing organic similarities, "Red Dawn" is a total different emotion because of the dramatic tense sustained by the musical layer.
We are far from a real AI takeover. The human added value is to my opinion still necessary to produce emotions and expressivity, otherwise we will loose nuance and freedom which is antinomic with artistic expression.
And also thanks for sharing the contests info, this is still a world for me to explore.

PS: I'm more than honored to be mentioned here but you are without doubts a community driver connecting people togheter and providing them support and motivations in a way that everyone is eager to continue exploring with you these new fields of expression.