Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture

I began an entry on 1 November 2014 about melancholy with a short sci-fi parable. I called the post #220 Good morning melancholia. I’ve reproduced it italicised at the end of this post, but I’ll precede it with a plausible back story. ChatGPT helped as criti...

Do novelists use AI? I recently heard Kurt Andersen discuss his forthcoming novel, The Breakup. He began writing it about a month before ChatGPT appeared and described the AI as subsequently cooperating in his writing process. Can I also write fiction with AI assistance?

My entry #218

AI cults exist! They demonstrate how contemporary accounts of AI and nature can take on some of the trappings of religious practice and belief.

I am reviewing my article of 2015 titled #216 Nature versus smartphones which was also the title I ...

ChatGPT shows an unnerving familiarity with my particular interests and practices, presumably inferred over a large number of interactions. But I am not the only one.

A friend showed me part of the transcript of his recent conversation with ChatGPT about his projects involving music software and digital image manipulation.

The AI displayed similar lev...