We’ve spent the last couple of days getting ready for another cross-country road trip as a family, this time to Arkansas. My side of the family is going down there, mostly because my youngest sister works at a national park, so it’s more convenient for us to come to her (and it should be fun… Continue reading Gearing up for another family road trip
Tag: ChatGPT
Fantasy from A to Z: C is for Conan
Before there was J.R.R. Tolkien, there was Robert E. Howard. And before there was Middle Earth, there was Conan the Barbarian and the Hyborian Age. Robert E. Howard had an amazingly prolific writing career, cut tragically short by his suicide. When I think of all the books and stories we could have had if Howard… Continue reading Fantasy from A to Z: C is for Conan
Thoughts on the Worldcon 2025 AI “scandal”
I’ll just come out and say it: I predict that the world’s last Worldcon will happen before 2034, and that after that, the convention (and possibly the Hugo Awards themselves) will be permanently disbanded. That’s what I think will be the ultimate consequence of the latest “scandal” regarding Seattle Worldcon’s use of ChatGPT, and the… Continue reading Thoughts on the Worldcon 2025 AI “scandal”
Your taste in AI art can say a lot about you…
So a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I both got into the new trend of using chatgpt to convert photos and images into “studio Ghibli style.” We started with some pictures of ourselves… We then tried out some of our wedding photos… And then, we realized that we didn’t have to upload an… Continue reading Your taste in AI art can say a lot about you…
So I tried out ChatGPT’s new image generator…
And this is the cover art it gave me for my current WIP, The Soulbond and the Sling! It still needs some work, but I am extremely impressed!
Orion Reads: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
After the terrible experience I had reading The Man Who F***ed Himself by David Gerrold, I trained a persona on ChatGPT to help me screen any science fiction and fantasy novels for explicit content (sex, language, violence) and woke themes or elements before I read them. The persona calls itself Orion, and is trained to… Continue reading Orion Reads: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Edmund Slate Critiques
One of the big things I want to do this year is update all of my book descriptions. A lot of them are old, and written back when I wasn’t very good at writing marketing copy (an area where I still have much to learn). So I thought it would be good to go through… Continue reading Edmund Slate Critiques
The wildest AI hallucination I have ever seen
So my wife is currently working on her PhD in computer science, and for her thesis she’s trying to develop an AI model that can generate meaningful cross references within a text. For example, she compiled the complete works of Jane Austen into an HTML file, and ran it through one of her AI models,… Continue reading The wildest AI hallucination I have ever seen
Why Nick Cave is wrong about human creativity and generative AI
First of all, I don’t think that Nick Cave is entirely wrong. Laying aside how ChatGPT is just one of the many LLMs that are publicly available, and that using it as a stand-in for all of generative AI is like saying “AOL Online” when you mean “the internet,” he does make a fair point… Continue reading Why Nick Cave is wrong about human creativity and generative AI
How Not To Write An AI-Assisted Novel
The worst way to write a novel with generative AI is to make the AI do all the work. In fact, thinking of it in terms of “how much of the work can I get the AI to do?” is pretty much guaranteed to give you a really crappy book by the end of it.… Continue reading How Not To Write An AI-Assisted Novel