1:46:20 17 years we've been running the show. We do it value for value, which means we send out a newsletter and then you are encouraged to support the show or you can listen to donation segment and be inspired because other people are supporting the show and they do that with time talent and treasure And I've received some feedback from the producers, by the way everyone who listens is a producer. You have an obligation to give us boots on the ground of course send us treasure if you can but help us out anyway just by promoting the show are artists who have been a big staple of the show for many years and there's a little bit of an issue with AI and I did want to read a note from Matt Boisvert
1:47:09 Now, we've picked his art several times and I wanted to share what he said about the art. My complaint is there's too much AI. We wind up ultimately picking an AI piece because there's just too much AI. What else are you going to do if the Dutch masters are no longer in there? And I think i was spot on he said Adam listening today you talked about artists no longer producing for the NOAA agenda because of AI and I have to say that is exactly how we've been feeling for a long time. The AI art being there was more an annoyance at first but once you guys started picking AI art it destroyed my drive to even try anymore
1:47:50 Pretty much exactly as you said, doing art from scratch over the course of three hours is incredibly hard to do. It takes a ton of energy and once the AI stuff started getting picked I gave up in fact i made arrangements in my school year schedule so I am available to do art every Thursday but I think I'm the only producer that produced art once in the last few months and it's sad and I don't know what the fix is! I keep my eye on the artists I can approve them and your right The real artists seem to have lost the drive to participate This is what AI is doing to art. It's destroying us. It's just, it's AI that's doing it to everything Yes! But doesn't mean that it's not sad and then if you look at the art that we chose this this is the kicker This is episode 1712 titled Data Plateau And we picked the art from Darren O'Neill which was of course AI
1:48:46 which was pretty funny. No agenda milk, you got the missing Democrat voters but on the last episode we thanked Koob the Boob who did the art for 1711 this was The Wastebuster? You remember that art with the kind of... Yeah yeah of course Here's his note So I'm listening to the show on Thursday excited to hear the arts segment because my art was picked But all I hear is you to talk about how you begrudgingly picked it because there was nothing better come on man at least At least I showed up and submitted something that was objectively a well-executed This would be a typical or I love this. This isn't the artist lament yeah, they get this stuff picked and
1:49:30 But there's still, you know you guys we didn't pick it with enough accolades. Come on! That was a good one I love that note He goes on Yes the cheesecake was AI Maybe the connection to the magic pill Ozempic and the reduction of government waste didn't land but it still... but I stil worked hard on the art When you say this is my... And then there's another gripe when you say this is my first time my art was picked for the show That's not true It's been awhile but my last win was Kabul My art has regularly been used as chapter art and newsletter art, which I always acknowledge happens. As well as before show art! I get that you've got your Dutch master favorites but when you shit on other artists and don't expect them to keep showing up... Yeah okay?
1:50:17 He says, I know I'm acting butthurt but as a regular Triple T donator and being well beyond knighthood is it too much to ask for a little acknowledgement? We gave you the acknowledgement, we picked it. It was a good piece! We liked it... I even went back and said that it was pretty, we liked it, but we were critiquing it. And I liked the cheesecake part. But we weren't shitting on it, we were critiquing it. Well maybe from his perspective, but if we're going to shit on something let's talk about the Darren O'Neill piece. Yeah. It's a sorry day when Darren ends up winning
1:50:56 I mean, come on. Darren does everything and now he takes the art because nobody else can come up with anything? Oh my goodness, by the way this thing about this particular piece people should go look at it because in the small form Yeah We both saw Snoopy the dog. It looked exactly like Snoopy it was crazy when you blow it up. It's a cow It's like an optical illusion I don't know if it became it was part of their system that created it but it's hilarious to see that is Snoopy the dog picture
1:51:33 It becomes a cow. Now, okay now just about the choices we had because without a doubt we both cracked up And we're laughing our ass off over Scaramangos, what's that in your mouth? Yes! That was the clear winner. That we were never gonna pick If you haven't seen it, you need to go to noagendaartgenerator.com I mean... It was just so vile There is no way- I couldn't even use it for the newsletter We would have gotten more donations probably Well, maybe. Good point! It was absolutely hilarious but no we couldn't use it I mean that even we have some kind of level of scruples Yes there's certain things we can do Not much but yeah this just took it a little bit too far Now...I will say that I really appreciated Dutch master Tante Niel coming back in and she came in with the seasoning of reveal
1:52:36 You know, we the colors weren't right. I mean it just didn't pop I mean III hate to say there was a bunch of Just some random stains on the right there. Yeah, she or something you blew down about It had something to do with rub it the wrong way. I'm sure Knowing Tantaniel and then comic strip blogger had seasoning of reveal which was actually not even that I mean we laughed at it because it had too many eggs dot com as a native ad on the side. Another winner is another scaramanga piece, he's gonna lose one of his coastal erections with the little... what does that say on the side? Meet Marco!
1:53:24 Another hilarious piece that we couldn't use. No, it was... But then I think he's just doing this now just to amuse himself Well it amused us! We just didn't feel it would be appropriate Everyone is amused but- We have a family show That just went too far. We looked at for quite awhile Acadium and Crackers by Sir Shug which was no agenda elementables And you had a real problem with the, I have color viewing issues and you had a real problem with the green and some other things. You made points about it? No it was too... The blue on blue and light blue with a... It just did not come out because I don't have colored blindness in fact blues come out little bit after you get cataract surgery blues are better
1:54:18 But it just was kind of the contrast was not there. It was lacking proper contrast and also the bottom was cut off, so I mean the box should have been centered in the frame. There were a lot of flaws in that piece. You know, it's interesting that AI is in essence ruining art for us. I mean really is this ruining art because we have said quite clearly will take a great concept executed by a real artist over something that looks slick, that just isn't there. It just doesn't do it any day! But you know I understand the...that artists they put all this time into it and then