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An Artificial Summer’s Day

When I write, I don’t use AI or Large Language Models.

I love to create, and I don’t want to slip up and let a tool (like an LLM) take creating away from me. I also don’t want human creativity to be surrendered to our new robot overlords while making the rich richer, hurting artists, and destroying the planet.

Humans are tool users, though. I like messing with a new tool. I think LLMs, because of their nature, make for interesting dictionaries and thesauruses. They might make good art critics, too, a job perhaps no human should do.

An Artificial Summer’s Day is where I play around with AI.

dogs; writing sonnets

2024-04-28 No Comments
Can you force yourself to sit and write creatively? You can make space for it. But can you dig something out, remove a splinter from your own thumb? And if you decide to dig, ignoring the urge to wander away, will the result be worth anything? I think structure helps.
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crossed words on crosswords; the freedom to dislike things

2024-04-11 No Comments
I used to feel obligated to like everything. It’s a side-effect of people-pleaser anxiety. I had to like incense. Flip-flops. Gilbert and Sullivan. I got over it.
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Break my heart; my toaster oven

2024-04-02 No Comments
Today we need to talk about my toaster oven and Dua Lipa’s Break My Heart.
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Murder by Algorithm

a science-fiction murder mystery

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A book cover of "Murder by Algorithm", a science fiction murder mystery by Douglas Beagley

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