Thom Waite

London

News Writer at Dazed Magazine

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Infinite Unreality: How an AI kangaroo tricked the internet

1 day ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

It was inevitable, really. From the moment the first AI text-to-video tools were rolled out to the public, it was only a matter of time until even the most savvy internet users were fooled by the content in their feeds. Most just didn’t expect the final straw to be a baby kangaroo waiting for someone to check its documents at the airport.
Luca Guadagnino set to direct a film about OpenAI’s behind-the-scenes chaos

3 days ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

Luca Guadagnino is a busy man. Some might say too busy! But that hasn’t stopped him from entering talks to direct a new film about OpenAI, one of the world’s leading AI companies. Titled Artificial, the film will revolve around a behind-the-scenes corporate drama that took place in 2023. That might not sound quite as exciting as Bones and All’s cannibal love story, or as dynamic as the high-stakes tennis match that rounds out Challengers, but don’t be too quick to cast judgment.
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks props, Eraserhead prints, and more go to auction

1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

A large collection of objects from David Lynch’s life and career are set to go up for auction, following the director’s passing in January this year. Among the items up for sale? The famed red curtains and zig-zag carpet of the Black Lodge, Lynch’s personalised director’s chair, and espresso machines used by the filmmaker himself.
How The Phoenician Scheme’s star manifested her dream role into existence

1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

23 Images At first glance, Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme is a story about a ruthless plutocrat, Zsa-zsa Korda, determined to bulldoze everything in his path to put his titular masterplan into action. (Sound familiar?) It’s a high-stakes game and Korda has many opponents: rival tycoons, the US government, political radicals, and a string of deadly assassins.
Donald Trump signs anti-revenge porn law - but why is it so controversial?

2 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

This week, Donald Trump signed into law the Take It Down Act, a new law designed to protect people – especially young women – from online sexual exploitation. Specifically aimed at revenge porn and sexually explicit deepfakes, the measure introduces penalties for websites and social media companies that “knowingly publish” intimate images without a person’s consent, including those created with AI. Backed by first lady Melania Trump, the proposal received unusual, almost total bipartisan support.
These photos explore the ‘raw, messy, and radical’ reality of queer desire

2 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

36 Images For Slava Mogutin, “Romance is not just about love – it’s about longing, fantasy, and danger.” That should give you some idea about the kind of artworks included in the exiled Russian artist and curator’s new show, My Romantic Ideal, in NYC. Football-themed nudes by Mogutin himself appear alongside explicit portraits by Bruce LaBruce, sun-soaked studies of the male body by Tyler Matthew Oyer, Łukasz Leja’s tender and NSFW take on Las Meninas, and more.
‘Decenter the human’: How art is shifting the climate conversation

4 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

As shows by Björk and K Allado McDowell explore mass species extinction via AI, other artists find different ways to shift our ecological perspectives – here, we speak to some of the key players11 Images The names of approximately 200,000 extinct species are featured in K Allado-McDowell’s new exhibition at Swiss Institute in New York. To the human brain, it’s almost impossible to comprehend such a vast collection of living things, much less their erasure from the Earth and its oceans.
Get your art seen by Björk, Michèle Lamy and more via the 2025 CIRCA Prize

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

9 Images On May 1, Björk – an artist and musician from Iceland, maybe you’ve heard of her – kicked off the 2025 CIRCA Prize with a screening of her theatrical epic Cornucopiaon London’s Piccadilly Lights. Alongside Michèle Lamy, who also appeared at the central London launch, she will join a bunch of other leading creatives on the jury for the video art prize, now in its fifth year.
Should we treat AI with kindness and respect?

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

In February this year, the weekly active users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT soared past 400 million. A few months later, as it rolled out its tools for generating Ghibli-themed AI images, CEO Sam Altman suggested that as many as one in 10 people on Earth now use its systems.
People should be allowed to criticise the culture they don’t like

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

This week, Katy Perry issued a response to criticism of her most recent tour, Lifetimes, which kicked off in Mexico on April 23 and will travel to a number of US arenas starting next week, before moving on to Australia, Europe and China, finishing up in Abu Dhabi this winter. Early performances of the show have been criticised and/or ruthlessly mocked online for their staging and choreography, on top of Perry’s “low energy” performances.