The Backshop
Naum MilyavskiyA personal Substack collecting all the backstories, backlogs, and creative misfires of an artist who refuses to leave anything on the cutting room floor.
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Creative Epiphanies As You Age
I’ve been ambivalent about my creative evolution into my 30s. While I’m noticing more mastery in my creative voice, I’m also noticing that without constant reading, research, and learning, it’s harder to stay curious about the world. It’s e...
The Rise of Griefbots
The jargon is growing. Deathbots, deadbots, ghostbots, thanabots, or, more commonly, griefbots.
These terms refer to a host of new AI technologies that replicate deceased loved ones. In 2025, they come in many flavors.
There’s re;memo...
ChatGPT and the New Hellscape of the AI Arms Race
A few weeks ago, I read an Atlantic article by Annie Lowrey titled “The Job Market is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.”
Pretty hellish indeed. Job appli...
Slop and Theft
One thing that’s been provoking a noticeably larger share of the internet’s vomit emojis recently is OpenAI’s update to its image generation capacities that allow it to create Studio Ghibli-styled AI.
The controversy is complicated.
Firs...
ChatGPT as an Art Form
I’ve been interested in chatbots for a while, for a slew of reasons.
When people form emotive relationships with intelligent AI, it raises loads of philosophical and moral questions. Can one-sided relationships be fulfilling? How can they...
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