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An AI-generated mural on the side of a building Kingston upon Thames in the U.K. has been removed after locals described it as "horrible, like a scene from hell." It was supposed to depict a festive ice-skating scene, inspired by the work of sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. But by accident or design (one theory is that it was the work of Young British Artist Mat Collishaw) it instead showed contorted human faces, heavily disfigured dogs, a Christmas market engulfed in flames, and a hideous snowman. After numerous complaints, with some suggesting that it was actually a comment on the refugee crisis, it was taken down on Nov. 20. Here's more from ArtNet.

https://flip.it/XANqzk

Image of "hideous" mural showing legs wading through shallow water, bearded men and deformed animals.

🖥️ 🇬🇧 **Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories**

"_In addition to showing how algorithms increased the visibility of posts featuring images (particularly those created with AI) and videos representing racist conspiracy theories, this article explores how these posts likely fuelled the riots by appealing to a crusading mentality that projected White/European men as morally entitled to defend Britain, animating racist fantasies deeply entrenched in the Western collective unconscious._"

Lopes Buarque, B., & Lewis, N. (2025). Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481251391636.

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Today's moment: got the post-layout final proof PDF of the upcoming book, loaded it into Acrobat Reader as instructed, and the thing tells me: "This looks like a long document. Would you like to see a summary instead?"

My response was unprintable.

📚 🖥️ **More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work**

"_A new study by the University of Cambridge found many authors’ work has already been used – without their permission – to train large language models_"

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/20/more-than-half-of-uk-novelists-believe-ai-will-replace-their-work.

A couple of months ago, Nicholas Hune-Brown, an editor at Toronto's The Local magazine, received a pitch from Victoria Goldiee, who appeared to be an up-and-coming freelancer, with bylines in The Cut, The Guardian and Dwell. He assigned her a story about healthcare privatization. And then he began to look at her work. Here's how he discovered she was a scammer — but perhaps, still completely real.

https://flip.it/_hFLcv