"... someone could take a Chinese LLM and, if they were lazy, not try and get rid of the ... [CCP] 'information guidance' parts within them. So I have been finding models that were built by companies in California and Germany, on top of DeepSeek's models, which then start repeating key Chinese official talking points about certain topics."

#AlexColville, China Media Project, 2025

https://omny.fm/shows/the-little-red-podcast/the-lead-goose-china-s-ai-embrace

#podcasts #TheLittleRedPodcast #China #AI #MOLE #DeepSeek

The Lead Goose: China’s AI Embrace - The Little Red Podcast

In the latest episode in our series on belief, we’re looking at the CCP’s faith in Artificial Intelligence. China has embraced AI like no other nation, laying out a plan for AI that would see 70 percent adoption across six sectors - including governance – within the next two years. This aggressive approach is driven by commercial imperatives, the desire to shape international standards, and the hope that AI will solve the Party’s biggest worry: social stability. To explore China’s AI dreams, Louisa and Graeme are joined by China Media Project’s Alex Colville, who also writes the China Chatbot newsletter on Lingua Sinica, and Daria Impiombato, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Image: Goose, c/- Andy Hazel, 2025 Transcripts are available at https://ciw.anu.edu.au/podcasts/little-red-podcast

In case anyone would like to see inside Alex Colville’s studio in the attic of his long-time home in Sackville, New Brunswick, here’s a 360° panorama I shot there in 2010. #360panorama #AlexColville #CanadianArt #MagicRealism https://tntrmr.ca/vr
Rocznica urodzin Alexa Colville’a – jednego z najwybitniejszych kanadyjskich malarzy XX wieku. Urodzony 24 sierpnia 1920 roku, zasłynął z hiperrealistycznych, a zarazem niepokojących kompozycji. Był też artystą wojennym i profesorem, który wychował pokolenia twórców. (fot. Wikipedia) #AlexColville #malarstwo #sztuka #CanadaArt

Paintings by Canadian artist Alex Colville from the 1950s-1970s that look like PS2 graphics

#art #AlexColville #CanadianArtists

Celebrated Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall dies age 88
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/celebrated-nova-scotia-artist-tom-forrestall-dies-age-88-1.7385035

Aside: Not fam. w. Forrestall 🙏 but while attending Dal the AGNS was adjacent. Not an arts person, on a whim saw an amazing Alex Colville exhibition. Astounding detail (pointallism ...).

Forrestall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Forrestall

Colville: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Colville
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/alex-colville/style-and-technique
Google >> alex colville gallery >> images

Again, Google images >> hyperrealistic painting plastic wrap 🤯

#TomForrestall #AlexColville

Celebrated Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall dies at age 88 | CBC News

Forrestall won critical acclaim in the 1960s as part of a renewed interest in realist painting. His work can be found in major public and private collections across North America.

CBC

Good Morning #Canada
Today is my birthday but I was today years old to discover that I share this day with one of my favourite artists. Alex Colville was born David Alexander Colville on August 24th 1920 in Toronto, Ontario. He spent his entire career in Canada, primarily in Nova Scotia, studied painting at Mount Allison University and served as a military artist in WWII. He passed away July 16th 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

#CanadaIsAwesome #Artists #AlexColville
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/alex-colville/biography/

Alex Colville

East coast artist, Alex Colville (1920–2013) developed an iconic, personal realist style, painting his family, the landscape and his pets. Read his biography here.

Art Canada Institute - Institut de l’art canadien
Morning view of #sanfranciscobay is looking like an #alexcolville painting this morning