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The Rise of Griefbots
How AI Chatbots Will Change How We View Death
Oct 3, 2025 • Naum Milyavskiy
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…
Sep 19, 2025 • Naum Milyavskiy
Slop and Theft
Explaining the Vomit Emojis Caused by OpenAI's Studio Ghibli-style Images
Mar 28, 2025 • Naum Milyavskiy
ChatGPT as an Art Form
A Creative Answer to the Chatbot Dilemma
Mar 14, 2025 • Naum Milyavskiy
Art Comes From Communication Breakdown
Why I Became a Filmmaker and Not a Pamphleteer
Feb 17, 2025 • Naum Milyavskiy
How God Comes to Speak Through a Toad
The Creative Genius Flowing Through Dylan and Kendrick and Homer
Jan 5, 2025 • Naum Milyavskiy
The Gutenberg Press, But For Video?
A Semiplausible Analogy Between Martin Luther and Casey Neistat
Sep 28, 2024 • Naum Milyavskiy
Navigating the 'Inner Lands'
Ursula Le Guin and Pathfinding in the Creative Writing Process
Sep 17, 2024 • Naum Milyavskiy
The Backshop
The Backshop
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