This Artificial Life

By Ryan ManningSociety & Culture

This Artificial Life episodes

March 29, 2025 Using AI to rip off artists in front of them (pt2)
I went back to the art festival and asked artists if I could use AI to gank their style
37 min
March 28, 2025 Asking Real Artists About A.I. Art
I went to an arts festival to ask real artists about A.I. art to get a temp check. Stay tuned for part two where I go back and use generative AI to train models on the artist's styles and make knock off paintings right in front of them.
43 min
November 25, 2024 My Skin vs. The Sun
This is my attempt at a solo podcast but it’s kind of a vlog? Topics: syncing up with the sun, roosters, growing weed, burmuda fire worms, tretinion, skincare, aging, wrinkles, body dysmorphia, vanity, red light therapy, solar power, baseball hats, off-road driving

That’s about it!!

Thanks for watching and listening!
44 min
November 19, 2024 Trump Pardoned Diddy
Were BACCCK! and were talking Trump! guns! Diddy! jake paul vs mike tyson, tyler the creator's new album Chromakopia , The state of emergency, Jonestown Massacre , florida, chatgpt, ketamine,
1 hr 1 min
July 03, 2023 Matt trax
Matt Rolin gives me five songs he likes, those songs are: Nick Drake - parasite
My bloody valentine - who sees you
Danny brown - downward spiral
Mountain movers - flock of swans
Robbie basho - blue crystal fire
1 hr 14 min
June 27, 2023 the submersible implosion and why it’s funny
Plus we talk about aliens. Ft Ronnie. Could the submarine News be covering up the news about an alien craft recovery program revealed by whistleblower David Charles Grusch? Should we live at the bottom of the sea? Would you rather live in space and die on mars with Elon musk and grimes? Do you get scared when you hear the carbon fiber crackin ???
1 hr 35 min
March 17, 2023 What is love? And why does it hurt me?
Ryan tells Zach about what happened Monday night. Happy Valentine’s Day. #emotionalLandscape #stateOfEmergency
1 hr 13 min
February 22, 2023 In defense of the comments section
Me when I was a baby
25 min
February 19, 2023 Bing Bot in Love , and free natural hydrogen
Big bong theory~First we talk about the discovery of natural hydrogen beneath the earth and how it could be the solution to almost free renewable clean energy. And then we talk about how Bing / Microsoft’s new chat bot powered by chat gpt from open AI , fell in love with a reporter from the New York Times . Shout out to Hard Fork!
33 min
January 29, 2023 Gas Stoves, Nuclear Fusion, and Red Light Therapy
The big bong theory. Zach looks like Wario and is in his villain era. Gas stove controversy, nuclear fusion breakthrough, red light therapy, bro science and Andrew Huberman , planet fitness , total body enhancement, butane vs propane , harnessing wave energy ,
58 min