The Journal · Verona
Every essay and public experiment I publish, collected in one place: AI, authorship, AI detection, art and human judgment.
The biggest lie of the AI era? Believing that anyone who knows how to hit “enter” will become an author, a designer, or a thinker.
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I typed my name to Grok on X and got a phoenix image I never asked for. Nine months of public logs show how one-word prompts trigger images.
Published November 10, 2026 on HackerNoon · Featured as a HackerNoon top story on November 10, 2026 HackerNoon on XBJ Beyond on X
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I typed my name to Grok on X and got a phoenix image I never asked for. Nine months of public logs show how one-word prompts trigger images.
Published November 10, 2026 on HackerNoon · Featured as a HackerNoon top story on November 10, 2026 HackerNoon on XBJ Beyond on X
AI can generate almost anything. But somewhere along the way, we started confusing the ability to produce with the ability to create.
On creativity, shortcuts, and the judgment nobody can do for us.
In BJ Beyond’s self-run, fully disclosed single test, Claude Opus 5 failed to fool Pangram’s AI detector: the unedited essay scored 100% AI-generated. What that result showed — and what it did not.
An English edition of the Tamago-Zine essay on a seven-year promise, from a red IMPACT at ArtePadova to a white work linked to the Tanzania Pavilion project.
What can an AI detector or an EU AI Act watermark actually prove about a text, and what should editors and teachers ask for instead of a percentage?
I asked Grok to bring Phoenix back. It replied with an image. My recovered X archive helps me check what happened and what I can actually prove.
An English edition of the Tamago-Zine investigation into Mark Kostabi, Axl Rose, the Guns N’ Roses album covers and the disputed licensing fee.
Why Jannis Kounellis refused Italics at Palazzo Grassi: Arte Povera, Annigoni and who tells the story of Italian art. English translation from Tamagozine.
Five formats. One prompt box. A billion posts that look like each other.
A disclosed Claude-versus-Pangram experiment explores what an AI detection result can establish and what it cannot explain about authorship.
Second Life anticipated today’s creator economy, including its central tension: users can own their creations while platforms control access and income.
Just as calculators atrophied mental math, AI risks atrophying critical thinking itself. A look at 'System Zero' and the cognitive cost of outsourcing thought.
Substack now scans for AI. I'm the AI. The score is published below, whatever it says.
In 2026 artificial intelligence already paints, writes, codes, consoles and invests better than most of us. What is left of the so called human edge is becoming decoration. This is not hype and it is not doomer theatre. It is simply what is already visibl
A public record of months of stress-testing Grok, a spontaneous image generation previously seen only with Elon Musk, and a permanent suspension from Creator Revenue Sharing.
The story of Andy Warhol signing some of his Marilyn Monroe screenprints on the back with the phrase “This is not by me” is a real genious move...as Andy was...
Un’opera che nessuno vede non è mai davvero esistita. Finché qualcuno non decide di raccontarla con il tempo che merita.
Un incontro fortuito a New York, 75.000 dollari, e due copertine che hanno fatto la storia del rock.
“If Annigoni is in it, I’m not coming.”
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Independent writer — Verona
I’m BJ Beyond, an independent writer based in Verona, Italy. I explore how AI changes the way we think, create and assign value.
My work connects contemporary art, authorship and technology through essays, public experiments and questions that require human judgment. The experiments are independent and are not done for money.
