This week we announce our new #tarot deck, with great #art from Happy Toast So Adam does a reading on a question that's been on Happy Toast's mind: What will happen to #artists now an #AI like #dalle can do their jobs? ### Past - 11 Of Trumps, Justice Artists of the past had _accountability_. If they do good work they are treated _fairly_ and _honestly_ They could make their art with _integrity_, gaining the _respect_ they are due for their art, and _obligation_ by their clients to commit to a _negotiation_ ### Present - 2 Of Wands, Dominion The artists have _dominion_ over their work, _sovereignty_ over their will and creations. They can demand _consequences_ if their vision is compromised, can strive for _improvement_, _manifesting_ new art into the world. ### Future - 14 Of Wands, King Without the intervention from the AI, Artists were _assured_ and _charismatic_, they could be _confident_ and _determined_, they were _empowered_ and able to be _innovative_, to be _smart_ and _sovereign_ individuals. ### Intervention - 15 Of Trumps, Devil But here comes the intervention: The _Devil_. A _dehumanising_ and _dishonest_ machine, A _perversion_ of their work scraped from the internet, amalgamated and blended and mixed, _dispossessing_ the creators, _perverting_ and _abusing_ the art, offering no recompense or power to artists. ### Influence - 2 Of Cups, Love But fans _love_ the artist as well as the art. They are _attracted_ by the person, not the portrait. They are _comrades_ of the artist, _connected_ to them on a _emotional_ level. They _maintain_ a _relationship_ with the artist that no AI could currently _understand_ ### Obstacles - 10 Of Cups, Satiety The main obstacle for The AI is _satiety_, immediate _satisfaction_ of the clients. The machine has no _joy_ or _life_ so it can't express _feelings_ and _expectations_, other than in a bland, average, statistical way. The AI's _misalignment_ means it may satisfy the client, but fail at connecting to the consumer on an emotional level. ### Outcome - 5 Of Trumps, Hierophant The outcome then will be the _Hierophant_. The machine can follow _guidelines_, but is _dogmatic_, and _conservative_, only able to copy with variations that which it has seen before. It's too _conforming_ and _conservative_. Without an artist who has dominion over the art, who can say "no" to corporate head office, art may meet institutional needs, but fail at bringing any human connection. ### Summary There was a _balance_ between artist and client, a _justice_ and _honesty_ to the way they interacted. The artist always had _dominion_ over their own work, which gave them some _power_ as _sovereign_ workers. But the _dehumanizing_ AI dispossesses that relationship, _perverts_ it, and _abuses_ the artist's prior work to make countless soulless machine-variations. However fans _love_ artists for the human connection, the _satisfaction_ of a _relationship_ to another human being. If the AIs took over, the result would be a conservative stasis, art conforming to prior dogmatism. With no human with dominion over the art we'd just eat clean corporate pabulum forever. So if you prefer to make a connection with an artist, come and order Happy Toast's deck during our kickstarter in November. ### Next time: Sign up to our email-list to be notified of new episodes: https://wordcloudtarot.com Join our telegram group: https://t.me/wordcloudtarot Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/@wordcloudtarot Buy a deck of cards now: https://wordcloudtarot.com

Last time the #tarot cards suggested that #war in #ukraine could be averted by diplomatic intervention. That turned out not to be true, but what about this week? {{< tube >}} ### Past - 14 Wands, King Business was being done in Russia, Gas extracted and sold, power and electricity being made, industry and enterprise self confidence ### Present - 7 Trumps, Chariot And Putin thought he'd go on an adventure, a movement, a military operation, the Russian army taking their chariots, or tanks, into the Ukraine. ### Future - 8 Trumps, Strength His expectation was that his armies would be strong, and powerful. Efficent and decisive in their use of force. ### Intervention - 9 Pentacles, Gain The intervention itself, the invasion itself, causes spikes in the price of Oil and Gas, which is useful to Russia for it sells a lot of those thing. So the invasion boosts their bank-balance. ### Influences - 12 Wands, Knight But here's Ukraine's leader, brave and dynamic, youthful and vibrant leading on gut instinct. ### Obstacles - 16 Trumps, Tower The falling of the tower of Russia's economy is the main obstacle facing Putin, the creditor and the debt and the catastrophic upheaval as sanctions kick in and the dictatorship could fall! ### Outcome - 8 Pentacles, Prudence In the end though, prudence must prevail. The patient and rational determination, attention to determining the reasons and logic and finding some reliable and rational way to end the conflict.a ### Summary Putin had managed his business in Russia well, and he expected his planned military adventure to bring strength to Russia, and so he intervened expecting gains, but the Ukrainians fought back, and Putin's tower is in danger of collapse. The world must come to some prudent compromise to end this war, for that tower collapsing could have consequences for the whole world. ### Next time: Sign up to our email-list to be notified of new episodes: https://wordcloudtarot.com Join our telegram group: https://t.me/wordcloudtarot Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/@wordcloudtarot Buy a deck of cards now: https://wordcloudtarot.com

This week, the IPCC have released their latest report on Climate Change. Their models suggest more of the world becoming uninhabitable, increases in wildfires and droughts and hurricanes and floods and not much sign we’re fixing it. Adam does a five minute #tarot reading to find out what’s going on. We find that the IPCC have been using the best science and learning available and that their report predicts the world heading for pain and debauchery. Their intervention is purposeful and diligent, the manifestation of years of work and meticulous effort. It should influence the world to work hard, overcome the adversity and use all the human resourcefulness we can muster to avert the catastrophe. But to do so we will face opposition from the money, from established interests and from wealth and profit. The final outcome will be the completion of our human destiny, but the cards remain quiet on whether that ultimate destiny will be human extinction or human flourishing. Presumably that’s still up to us. Tune in next time: Sign up to our email-list to be notified of new episodes: https://wordcloudtarot.com Join our telegram group: https://t.me/wordcloudtarot Follow on Twitter: @wordcloudtarot Buy a deck of cards now: https://wordcloudtarot.com