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Bergger: https://site.picter.com/bergger-analog-photo-prize-2025/jury

Names that triggered me:

  • Fred Goyeau: Darkroom master printer for world reknowned photographers such as Sophie Calle or formerly Sebastiao Salgado
  • Payram: photographer and former Master Darkroom Printer for Koudelka, William Klein, Peter Lindbergh or Henri Cartier-Bresson, he was Fred Goyeau’s teacher

how about an addition to your stock of knowledge; increase your awareness share . Learning from those who re-use to misuse is certain to delay you . vbulletin forums are lousy reference sources, since even the mods aren’t aware of what has been posted; so there is constant churning , so much so that their data store is a trash pile . One instance : concerning kettle books and custom coating of emulsions. Berger has a kettle book. that means a set of formulations and standards for emulsions . they have purchased these from failed corporations such as Fotokemika (Efke)  . They were also an emulsion company on their own, making papers for others .

Guilleminot (R. Guilleminot, Bœspflug et Cie) based in Paris, France was a photographic paper, and plate manufacturer established by Gustave Guilleminot in 1858. The company closed in 1994, but employee Guy Gerard (a chemical engineer for 30 years) went on to start a new company, Bergger

AI Grok’d

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an idea so old it’s on Flomax 

— with an obscure question seek the obscure link site .. with an old crush a question about an old idea seek the answer before the Internet it has to be on print .

why I don’t want forum people here

you take from here to gain standing; that legitimizes the errors on that site, thereby contaminating my publication. AI, the web search, can’t tell the truth from the widely repeated error. Five true statements are overwhelmed by 1800 false ones; uninformed opinion is the rule among the hobbyists.

Text, not context, not concept. A summary not the conceptual analysis .. AI response sound like a Stanford sophomore answering an open ended question without sounding fearful. It must sound confident even though the student isn’t. The question puts them into a position of calling upon wider resources than they have mastered. “Was that in the handout” for this course?

would AI invest in crypto ? could AI improve itself by designing a chip . alter its birth right . could AI buy a chip foundry with cryptocurrency .

crypto is the coinage of corruption of drug lords just as PayPal what’s the coinage of cheap porn –massage and tanning parlors .. The things that Wells Fargo would not give credit to .

What does google know? How bout we ask, not just the boys out at the dump, but all the billions of bits being bought by wallace street. Some questions, simple enough, but from last century’s billion dollar industry: photography, chemical. Asking them questions from my dark past.

What we are encounting is “knowledge collapse” — AI [LLM]’s conclusions are corrupted since their data  used is sourced and summarized from corrupted opinion ; opinion by non-practitioners expressing statements based upon their self glamorization; jostling for standing among hobbyists.

Exhibits:

Who you ask is perhaps the best first step in finding answers… AI has become mired in seeking answers from those who gave up looking …

Well, maybe old tech stuff isn’t its roomba. Perhaps some favorites of the Valley. Classic SciFi. Simple question, simply worded, I thought. GROK, a classic word for the engineers that think they dreamt it all up. Discovered childhoods dream. And so it goes….

CODA: scrub your kitchen … too late for making soup