Thanks as always for these places and links. I don't understand chatgpt - wayside is using an ai called "pi"? It replies with a British accent & apparently "spontanteously" asks the boss during the day if he's OK. 😳
I'm still recovering from reading/listening to the npr story about an ai program that was given poetry to read & then asked to write poetry. Also an extraordinary article by a semiotics linguist about ai language failings -
I guess the bigger question for you as a writer is: have your books been pirated by ai?
I started Black Doves and then jumped from ep 3 to the last episode. I did the same with the guy Ritchie series. There's only so much unnecessary violence I can watch. Ben Wishaw is brilliant and Tracey Ullman was a gift but just how many crime gangs are in London!!!
I look forward to your last post for the year & thank you for all the recommendations for us - especially those of us avoiding the midday sun for the next two months. 🙏🌞🫠
Thanks as always for the comments! It's funny, you're right - Black Doves *is* quite violent, but I had not noticed - or paid attention to the level of violence until you pointed it out. What does that say about how desensitised I have become to such imagery in my tv consumption? I suppose, that being said, there is a pulpiness to BD that I think feels different to say, Gangs of London, or even later seasons of The Boys, or even Love Lies Bleeding - I tend to be unable to stomach depictions versions of violence... but still. Something to think about - and maybe I'll make a note of such things when I'm next recommending.
As for my books being pirated by AI - it's less the books I'm worried about and more the reams of text and video I've put out on the internet for the last 15 years that I am certain make up part of any number of LLM training datasets. Alas! Theft, as always, from those at the top, profiting from our labour.
Thanks as always for these places and links. I don't understand chatgpt - wayside is using an ai called "pi"? It replies with a British accent & apparently "spontanteously" asks the boss during the day if he's OK. 😳
I'm still recovering from reading/listening to the npr story about an ai program that was given poetry to read & then asked to write poetry. Also an extraordinary article by a semiotics linguist about ai language failings -
I guess the bigger question for you as a writer is: have your books been pirated by ai?
I started Black Doves and then jumped from ep 3 to the last episode. I did the same with the guy Ritchie series. There's only so much unnecessary violence I can watch. Ben Wishaw is brilliant and Tracey Ullman was a gift but just how many crime gangs are in London!!!
I look forward to your last post for the year & thank you for all the recommendations for us - especially those of us avoiding the midday sun for the next two months. 🙏🌞🫠
Thanks as always for the comments! It's funny, you're right - Black Doves *is* quite violent, but I had not noticed - or paid attention to the level of violence until you pointed it out. What does that say about how desensitised I have become to such imagery in my tv consumption? I suppose, that being said, there is a pulpiness to BD that I think feels different to say, Gangs of London, or even later seasons of The Boys, or even Love Lies Bleeding - I tend to be unable to stomach depictions versions of violence... but still. Something to think about - and maybe I'll make a note of such things when I'm next recommending.
As for my books being pirated by AI - it's less the books I'm worried about and more the reams of text and video I've put out on the internet for the last 15 years that I am certain make up part of any number of LLM training datasets. Alas! Theft, as always, from those at the top, profiting from our labour.