Last year, a client came to me with a straightforward brief: they needed a full lookbook for their new clothing line. But there was a catch. “We don’t want a shoot,” they said. “Just take our phone photos and make them look professional with AI.” I could have said no. Instead, I said yes -- and it changed how I think about my entire career.

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We need to talk about bots, particularly bots with LLMs. Over the past few months, there has been a spike in LLM usage on Libera.Chat from AI assistants running unsupervised on the network. Most of this activity hasn’t affected major channels, but we have observed LLM-driven bots joining existing channels without permission. This comes with privacy concerns, not…

I’ve gone a lot of hard and scary experiences that’s made me deeply value stability. After enduring varied traumas, I really turned on the afterburners to make up for being ripped away from my own life and to rebuild a […]