Image Empire
AI summary of the linked articleImage Empire: A Field Guide is a free, richly illustrated 23-page download by Alan Warburton, who researched, wrote, animated, soundtracked and voiced it. It connects synthetic images, labour and AI world models, and is based on five years of doctoral research. Voiceovers in Chinese, Hindi and Spanish are available as alternate audio tracks with subtitles, and the guide is designed to be read in a single sitting. It is written for students, young creatives and working professionals, requires no prior knowledge, and covers media literacy, visual culture and worldbuilding. |
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3 comments   You can "play" an NPC? Sounds interesting, but would probably mean to create and maintain an agent … Philosophically there is anyways the question how NPC is less agentic as eg being a Player. Eg it used to be that Thrall, the chief of the orgs in WoW was actually a really cool and looked-up to guy. And that Players would often pose with him. Players wanted to become warriors like him and he had a long history of fought battles. In that view the NPC is even more achieved than Players. No Player in WoW could even become chief of the orcs from what I know. |