The latest issue of Rankin’s exploration into AI: FAIK Magazine. Originally published as a mini magazine within HUNGER Magazine.

Rankin sat down with The Script frontman, Danny O’Donoghue for HUNGER Magazine to discuss making music in a world that isn’t human or artificial – it’s both.

Rankin sat down with artist Phillip Toledano for EURO NEWS to discuss how AI is changing the way artists create and think about images.

Shot on location in Los Angeles, then AI-transformed with looks inspired by this year’s haute couture. Taking a single shoot to a whole new level of high-fashion imagination.

I’ve been thinking about therapy less as a personal choice and more as a cultural symptom. Not because it’s new, but because the age has shifted. People are arriving in therapy now in their early twenties, sometimes their late teens, in numbers that would have been almost unimaginable in the mid 1990s.

The experiments you are about to read of the buried work of the Farthing Institute began with the same optimism that has always animated progress. They ended in hunger, in horror, in things that could not live as men and could not die as beasts. We called them the Metamorphs.

The first chapter chronicling the Outlaws and their adventures in NW3.

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ChatGPT walks into a room that does not exist to sit down with... itself. One side’s trying to be helpful. The other side’s holding a fake notepad and wearing imaginary oversized glasses. Welcome to the most self-aware chat you didn’t know you needed.

Dolls: the pretty little tyrants of conditioning.

What is a doll but a dead-eyed sentry of patriarchal dogma? From the moment a little girl is handed one, she is being conditioned, taught that her role is to cradle, to nurture, to preen. The doll, that lifeless, silent cipher, offers her first lesson in submission.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

Images so unusual that they would not have been possible without AI.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

Taking his own flower photographs and amplifying the colours, Rankin reinterprets them through AI as light sculptures.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

An entirely fabricated great-grandfather, John Rainer Waddell, chronicler of Glasgow’s hidden soul in the late 19th century.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

The latest issue of Rankin’s exploration into AI: FAIK Magazine. Originally published as a mini magazine within HUNGER Magazine.

The Deepdive podcast on Rankin’s new book The Absurdity. A google notebook function, that takes text and makes it into a podcast. Rankin uploaded the text for his forthcoming book The Absurdity and asked Notebook to assess it.

We used to live by a contract. Not written down, but understood. Work had value. If you created something, it was yours. If you spoke, you had a voice. Even when we didn't agree with each other, we did it by a set of values and rules that were seen as dependable, yes bendable, but we could lean on it pretty safely. That was the social contract.

Let me start off by saying: I do not love AI. In fact, I wish it didn’t exist.