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Who Gets to Decide What’s “Better”?
This isn’t just about beauty. It’s about who gets to decide what’s “better.” When I first began experimenting with AI beauty filters for Facetune Portraits , I thought I was exploring aesthetics — how technology distorts faces, how algorithms shape identity. But it quickly became clear that beauty was only the surface. This isn’t just about beauty. It’s about who gets to decide what’s “better.” Behind every edit is a decision. Behind every “enhancement” is a hierarchy. These
Francis Joseph Seballos
17 hours ago1 min read


The Artist Who Hacked the Art World
“So I was thinking I could climb into the shelves for a shot?” -The Artist Who Hacked the Art World That was the first thing I said when the camera started rolling in my Barbican apartment — which, like most of my life, exists somewhere between art, code, and chaos. So I was thinking I could climb into the shelves for a shot? I’ve always believed art should live at the intersection of play and power. From a career at Google to engineering SEO hacks that inserted my name into
Francis Joseph Seballos
2 days ago1 min read


One-of-a-Kind in a World of Copies
In a world of copies, I’m making one-of-a-kind paintings about the pressure to conform. Technology has made it easier than ever to replicate, to remix, to repeat — but in that convenience, something deeply human is lost. Every algorithm is built on recognition: it rewards what it already understands. The result is a culture that values repetition over originality, predictability over risk. In a world of copies, I’m making one-of-a-kind paintings about the pressure to conform
Francis Joseph Seballos
3 days ago1 min read


When AI Has an Opinion on Beauty
AI has an opinion on how we should look. That might sound like science fiction, but it’s already happening every time we open our cameras, apply a filter, or upload a photo. The algorithms behind these tools aren’t neutral — they’ve been trained on millions of images to decide what “beautiful” means. AI has an opinion on how we should look — and it’s compressing all of humanity into a single idea of what beauty is. And what they’ve learned isn’t diversity. It’s compression.
Francis Joseph Seballos
4 days ago1 min read
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