Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Is it human or is it AI

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

We have reached the point where the Authors Guild, the professional association representing published novelists and nonfiction writers in North America, is planning to offer  its 15,000 members a new certificate they can place directly on their book covers. About … Continue reading →

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Data Poetry

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Traditional rooftops slope like the backs of resting camels. Forests play fortresses; secrets held in whistling pine needles. Serene valleys echo a painter’s lost blues and greens. Mountains order the sky, no less, wearing casts of gray ruggedness. Although I am a frequent critic of … Continue reading →

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Ghostwriter

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Designer Arvind Sanjeev has designed Ghostwriter , a smartly named answer machine that uses Open AI’s ChatGPT language model to answer queries manually entered by users, based on a modified old Brother typewriter. Tradition meets modernity. The Ghostwriter is a poetic intervention that allows us … Continue reading →

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AI Fictions

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Pushing back against AI

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

The Authors Guild has submitted an open letter to the CEOs of prominent AI companies, including OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, IBM, and Microsoft, calling their attention “to the inherent injustice in exploiting our works as part of your AI systems without … Continue reading →

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Thank You For Not Answering

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

Recently, I have found myself wavering between complete awe at the potential for open source AI programs and abject terror at the real possibility that AI can end life on Earth. Today, I find myself marveling at the fascinating art … Continue reading →

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My AI Tale

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

To say that I am ambivalent about the rush to use AI in the arts would be an understatement. In many instances it seems more like an automated plagiarism machine than cutting edge technology. However, I was game to give … Continue reading →

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Summer Island

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

I haven’t paid much attention to the deluge of content that has been generated lately by AI machines, but something about the Summer Island project captured my attention. Summer Island is a comic, with all the artwork generated by  Midjourney AI. To … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the AI Generation

Posted on August 13, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

It seems that each day we are introduced to yet another form of AI-generated art, literature, news, or advertising. This series of AI-generated travel posters, commissioned from research lab Midjourney for the luggage storage company Stasher, is the inevitable blend of … Continue reading →

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