The Collective Podcast

Ep. 235 - Steven Zapata

Jan 10, 2023

03:06:16

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The Star That Burns Twice as Bright as the One That Dies

01:20

I'm Not Going to Fall Into the Traps Like That

01:20

Are You Human?

01:20

The Alignment Problem in Machine Learning

03:17

Introduction

2min

How Did You Come Into Being an Artist?

3min

You Make It. You Made It. We'll See

3min

Is There a Lineage That Is Out There?

2min

It Was a Toxic Environment, Right?

2min

Art Center

3min

The Art Center Experience

3min

What's the Pressure Cooker of Art?

6min

Depression and Burnout

5min

10.

Is There a Relationship Between Art and the Gifted?

3min

11.

Is There a Fuel That Burns?

3min

12.

What's Your Relationship to Art?

3min

13.

You Know, It's Just a Job, Its Another Job?

2min

14.

The Biggest Decisions We Make Are So Vapid

3min

15.

You're Saying You Were Going Through the Motions, the Cycles

3min

16.

Survivor Support Groups Really Help

2min

17.

Dealing With a Dad's Death

2min

18.

How Do You Survive After COVID?

4min

19.

Zen Meditation - My First Introduction

4min

20.

Meditation

3min

21.

What Have I Been Missing in Art?

2min

22.

What Do I Do Now?

3min

23.

Creating a YouTube Channel for Artists and Artists

3min

24.

Is It Hard to Teach Art?

2min

25.

Is That Your Art Style?

4min

26.

The Future of Our Currency Is Authenticity

4min

27.

Is There a Sentient Being?

4min

28.

Is There a Difference Between Art and Therapy?

3min

29.

NFT

4min

30.

Open Source Discussion

2min

31.

Stability Diffusion

2min

32.

Commoncrawl

3min

33.

Is There Value in That?

3min

34.

Is There a Metadata Attached to the Image?

4min

35.

Vox Video - The Special Sauce Recipe

2min

36.

How to Denoise a Noise Seed

2min

37.

The Model Is Doing Learning in Heavy Air Quotes

4min

38.

Sensience Is Predicated on Consciousness

2min

39.

Is There Something It's Like to Be Me?

2min

40.

Is the Latent Space the After Product of Machine Learning?

3min

41.

The Alignment Problem in Machine Learning

3min

42.

Is It Selfishness?

3min

43.

Is It the Only Form of Labor?

4min

44.

The Artist's Journey Is Akin to the Human Journey

4min

45.

I'm Not Interested in Using the Data Sets, I've Been Posted.

3min

46.

Are You Making a Pretty Picture?

4min

47.

The Utopian Side of Art

2min

48.

What's Going On?

4min

49.

Is There Anything You'd Like to See in an Artist?

6min

50.

Is It Okay to Keep Going Or?

4min

51.

It Would Not Be an Awkward Crime to Destroy Stable Diffusion

2min

52.

What's Possible With Art?

5min

53.

I'm Not Sleeping. This Isn't My Art.

5min

54.

You're Blessed to Have a Life You Have, You Know?

1min

55.

Learn How to Trust Yourself Through Times of Confidence

3min

56.

Trust Is a Thinning Line for Artists

2min

57.

Trusting Yourself With Your Art

2min

58.

Do You Trust Yourself?

3min

59.

I'd Like to Link You to the Concept Art Associations

3min

60.

I Love That You're Plugging That To

2min

Steven Zapata joins Ash for a powerful conversation about the human power of art and how profound it has been for him throughout his life. Steven also discusses how his thoughts on AI have resonated with the art community after his excellent video ‘THE END OF ART: AN ARGUMENT AGAINST IMAGE AI’s.’ This episode is packed full of eye-opening facts, philosophy, experiences and honesty.

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