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Tall Tales is a critique of AI — so why do people think it was made with AI?

Published on: 2025-07-21 12:30:00

is a features editor at The Verge, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor, business, and policing. Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ. For the past three decades, multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Zawada has produced art across various mediums: sculptures, paintings, videos, installations, and more. He’s also been making visualizations with his friend Mark Pritchard, a record producer and experimental musician. They became close friends, talking nearly every day. But the relationship changed when Pritchard brought him a new, daunting project: a collaborative album with Thom Yorke, the frontman of Radiohead. “I’m a massive fan, and I’ve found he’s kind of a terrifying person,” Zawada says. But despite being intimidated, he found Yorke to be a great collaborator. “He’s so switched on, and he’s so clear and concise… Yeah, I was very nervous a lot of the time.” Before the record, Tall Tales, was even a complete album, Zawada was working on a visual accompaniment to i ... Read full article.