AI in the Creative Industries
AI is an eating machine. Techs program it. Feed it our experiences. Teach it how to output. It’s an amalgamation of everybody who interacts with it – a cannibal who takes our industry, and then through algorithms and probability, generates its own material. But that material is built on our creativity, our originality, and our endeavour. What a fucking crock. But here’s something else to consider … Isn’t that just us also? Parents produce us. Environment programs us – parents, sibling, teachers, friends, strangers. We’re a product of all these constructs, which then forms the way we think, and shapes how we navigate life. Occasionally, our behaviour might schism, although usually…
August Falling: Music and Its Role
When I was younger, I was able to write through anything. It wasn’t uncommon to have the radio blaring in the background. As I got older, the ads started to irritate me – well, those annoying ones (“Hello! Hello!”) where somebody was talking right at you. They always broke my concentration. Listening to CDs helped solve that problem. Originally, I’d just play anything. But as I grew more experienced and idiosyncratic (as a writer) I’d chose music that tonally suited whatever I was writing. It helped get me in the right mood and created a mindset that contributed to the story. When I was thirty, I went through terrible clusters…