AI

If AI is essen­tial­ly a pre­dic­tion machine—grasping for the most like­ly next pix­el, word or letter—how can it pos­si­bly cre­ate any­thing new? I am not going to answer that ques­tion …

On May 28, 2026, at its own AI Now Summit, the French AI company Mistral announced that Le Chat — its conversational AI assistant, launched in February 2024 — would henceforth be called Vibe.

Au Revoir, Le Chat

A Name Change We Have To Feel Sor­ry For? Mis­tral’s deci­sion to rename its chat­bot rais­es a small but legit­i­mate ques­tion about iden­ti­ty, brand­ing, and what Euro­pean AI com­pa­nies owe their own dis­tinc­tive­ness On May 28, 2026, at its own AI Now Sum­mit, the French AI com­pa­ny Mis­tral announced that

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GPT Image Creation

AI – of course AI – says, GPT is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing image gen­er­a­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly with the release of state-of-the-art mod­els like GPT Image 2.0: It promis­es near-per­fect prompt adher­ence, advanced visu­al rea­son­ing, and the abil­i­ty to gen­er­ate and accu­rate­ly ren­der com­plex text direct­ly inside images.

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AI Aesthetics

Cer­tain­ly not artificial—yet dis­tinct­ly humanoid. There are some gen­uine­ly inter­est­ing trends, along­side a num­ber of rather clichéd visualizations—many of which can be found on this very web­site. A glance at the Night­Café home­page reveals hun­dreds of high­ly pol­ished, yet often for­mu­la­ic images. It rais­es an inter­est­ing ques­tion: is this aes­thet­ic

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Traffic – it’s a conundrum

Oh the many ways I’ve tried to tell my Image Cre­ator, that cars on a road usu­al­ly go in dif­fer­ent direc­tions – in one lane they come up towards the view­er, in the oth­er we usu­al­ly see them from behind because they are … AI does not seem to know

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AI Image Generation

Glossy but Faulty: The Illu­sion of Per­fec­tion At first glance, AI-gen­er­at­ed images daz­zle with their pol­ished aesthetics—vibrant col­ors, intri­cate details, and styles that mim­ic famous artists or futur­is­tic visions. Yet, the clos­er you look, the more flaws emerge: dis­tort­ed hands, unnat­ur­al light­ing, or sur­re­al land­scapes that defy physics. The pur­suit

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Stompbox T‑Shirts

I love effect ped­als. I just love them!
The way they are built, their stur­di­ness, their focus on one pur­pose (most­ly). The colours …

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