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Distortion Through Creation: How Sora 2 Distorts Reality and Authorship

November 1, 2025October 29, 2025 bgoeltzenleuchter

Imagine watching a video of yourself saying or doing something that never even happened. Though the similarities are completely uncanny, it is just a fabrication. This is a completely real possibility through OpenAI’s new video generation model, Sora 2. Not only is Sora 2 super realistic, physically accurate and easily

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Literature Culture or Child Sexploitation

April 30, 2023April 27, 2023 bgoeltzenleuchter

Has child sexploitation become accepted in literature culture? If literature is supposed to reflect cultural values, beliefs, and norms, have we as a society become ok with the use of underage sex scenes in widely publicized books, some even considered classics? Let’s take for example J.D. Salingers 1945 book Catcher

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Book Bans in the US

April 27, 2023 bgoeltzenleuchter and victoriaash

A recent effort has been made to encourage local leaders to ban books in public libraries. States like Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, and Oklahoma have tried to pass policies that restrict what can be presented in public libraries. Many of these books that are being proposed for restriction are about

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Graffiti, The Art That Talks Back

March 11, 2023March 7, 2023 bgoeltzenleuchter and Toni

For decades now, art has spread itself across many forms, platforms, and even on buildings. Graffiti originated in New York, in the 1970s. The artists started to create their designs on any wall they could find, buildings, or generally on any flat surface accessible to the public. The styles range,

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The War on Chalk

July 9, 2013February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

On July 1, 2013 Jeff Olson was acquitted of 13 counts of vandalism charges that could have cost him $13,000 in fines and up to 13 years in jail. The vandalism in question concerned drawings made in chalk on the sidewalks in front of three San Diego Bank of America

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Octo-Art, or the Ethics of Life Drawing

November 6, 2012February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Dylan Mayer, an art student at Green River Community College, was assigned the task of drawing from nature. Like any respectable art student, Mayer placed further challenges on himself, stating, “I thought, ‘How about something underwater?’ “ Mayer purchased a day permit and entered a popular dive site in West

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