An audiobook about a plain, simple, tailor?

By far my best moment at a convention was noticing that Andrew J Robinson was signing autographs next to Katee Sackhoff. She had a queue running the entire length of the hall while he had no one. I was nervous as I’d never gone up to anyone famous before, but I had loved Stitch in Time so much so I went up grabbed a…

I’m a massive fan of this novel, it’s easily my favorite Star Trek book (which is no easy task!), and one of the few Trek entries I’ve read multiple times.

There has been AI as a part of Photoshop tools for a long time before it became a buzzword. But they were tools meant to assist creative vision not replace it.

Ah, yes. Tell us you have no idea what working on creative projects implies without telling us you have no idea what working on creative projects implies.

“Hell, I could wave my arms in front of an orchestra, what’s the big deal?”

Human or AI, my problem is that it looks awful. It features all of the flaws people usually point to in algorithmic "art" on full display, dialed up to 11. 

Breaking News! Harrison Ford receives the honour of being interviewed by Ali Plumb.

I wanted to chime in and thank you for writing this. Fanfiction takes a lot of slag, and fan culture is FAR from perfect, but this is another example of “chatbots” exploiting the work of artists. This article really made me think.

I don’t think there’s much nuance needed when you look at the fundamental innate differences between a living, breathing Human who is able to learn and think and express themselves through art and a Program that produces output based on data. there is no spirituality or philosphy here. they are different because the…

chatbots are not writing, they are generating. they cannot write. they do not have emergent creativity or ideas. we are encountering an issue of semantics, but fundamentally speaking, chatbots do not write anything, they utilize programming drawn from a corpus of static datasets.

sure, but going back to the original point, machine learning does not learn how an artist or writer does, exactly because of all those qualities it lacks. It just seems to and it’s overstated what it can do. And that’s why it’s not equivalent.

again, writers practicing their craft in earnest, for free, as a part of a gift culture is on the opposite end of the spectrum as having their work used by a chatbot who exploited that to create a for-profit product.

yup. genuinely, go for it. i would rather have hundreds of kids experiment with writing based on my fanfic than a single dataset have access to it for programming purposes. 

chat based generators pull the Next Most Likely Word, based on their predictive programming, out of their massive dataset. this is not in reference to creative work. 

ahhh so that’s why all my answers overuse the words turgid and tumescent.

No wonder AI’s always adding extra fingers and limbs and shit.

fic has ALWAYS been accessible. writing has been accessible for YEARS. people have been writing fanfiction since the 1800s and publishing it since the 1890s. Accessibility has never been an issue, as there is literally no gatekeeping happening and nothing stopping anyone from writing fic.

If you cannot see the difference!! in between a HUMAN BEING!! taking something they love and loving it EVEN HARDER and in public and within fandom culture and a machine outputting The Next Most Likely Word then i simply cannot explain it to you in simpler terms lmao