Culture of New York City

Nothing, Forever, the AI-generated and Seinfeld-inspired Twitch stream that first launched in December 2022, is coming back online. The company behind the surreal vortex of animated 90's New York nostalgia, Mismatch Media, announced the show’s return Tuesday night on Twitter. The meant-to-be-infinite stream is scheduled to restart on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. Pacific).Previously, Twitch took Nothing, Forever temporarily offline after its main character, “Larry Feinberg,” started to spew transphobic and homophobic,…

Larry Feinberg and Fred Kastpolous chat about nothing as their bodies awkwardly contort to sit on couches stationed around the apartment.Gif: Nothing, Forever/Gizmodo“What did the fish say when it hit the wall?” the pixilated and jerking form of Jerr—sorry, I mean “Larry,” asks the invisible audience. Then there’s a pregnant pause that lasts too long, even for an amateur stand up comedy act. Finally, the punchline: “…dam”There’s a lot of strange, awkward pauses in Nothing, Forever, an AI-generated show based on the…

Screenshot: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo)Artificial intelligence is (rightfully) lampooned for all sorts of reasons, but credit where credit is due: neural networks really know how to make some freakishly beautiful art. Or at least, that’s my opinion after seeing the recent surge of platforms like Midjourney and Google’s Imagen that are designed to swallow basic strings of text—“a painting of a flower,” say—and spit out such a painting right back at you. And if you haven’t any of tried those, maybe you’ve heard of what has…