Has doomscrolling hijacked your mental faculties, making you feel humanity is doomed? It's all gonna be fine. Season 3 is here. In this episode, Eckhart Toll-Free presents a compelling case for hope and optimism in a terminally online world. Let's put down our devices for a moment and recoup our mental bandwidth together. I don't think we're doomed. And that's coming from me. Credits for musical interludes/segments featured in this episode: - Blue Dot Sessions - Wave Saver - William Blue

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[Disclaimer: the radically idealistic ramblings expressed by Eckhart Toll-Free, a self-proclaimed "holier-than-thou" enlightened centrist (and best-selling author of "The Power of Off") are entirely his own and in no way conveys the thoughts and feelings of Overthinkers Anonymous—or overthinkers in general.]

Somehow, Overthinkers Anonymous Returned...

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In this mid journey, rogue overthinkers Blueberry Moonbeam, Strawberry Sunshine, and Darth Serious scrape the iceberg of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), what should (and shouldn't) be considered art. Plus, anything and everything artists in the digital age (should) overthink about.

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Broad strokes:

• grilling Chat-GPT about the definition of art and whether AI-generated art can be considered "art"
• originality, sampling and referencing: is everything just a remix of what came before?
• is the career path of an artist still met with the same stigma and skepticism as before?
• influence and inspiration: how Dune influenced Star Wars (not vice-versa)
• "Theoretical Psychics Art Services" — Sunshine and Serious's arts studio/enterprise fostering human-centered artistic mentorship & collaboration—as well as facilitating access to networking and job opportunities for artists in the Philippines

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Producer credits for musical segments/interludes:

• Migration (intro)
• Desjardins
• Cataldo
• BreakzStudios
• William Blue
• Cloud Cover (outro)

[Music licensed via Blue Dot Sessions and Pixabay]

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Everything is a Remix (by Kirby Ferguson via YouTube)

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