I’ve been a professional writer for many years. I use this place for lots of non-professional writing. I hope you’ll get a kick out of at least some of it.
I use absolutely zero A.I. in my writing or image-making work.
Please feel free to nose around my factual work, my fiction and my poetry.
Of course, there’s also the occasional opinion piece hidden away because who really wants to read somebody else’s opinion anyway?
Let’s start with some quick posts. All the best, Tim
Current Opinions
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The creative process is richer emotionally than anything Ai can ever produce
The process of creativity trumps an Ai production for rich emotional experiences. The Art is merely the final outcome of that process. Ai privileges speed over creativity. Creativity is a process that requires time, introspection, wider reading, seeing and hearing. Ai ‘art’ is merely Illth and offers no Wellth at all.
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Trite and testy
Why do Ai’s zealots take the road most travelled, usually by teenagers? Because they only think at surface level? Surely there must be more to it.
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Bach vs Ai
Sunday afternoon deep in the the Yorkshire winter, I was listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations (played by Beatrice Rana) and I drifted into imagining dear old JSB writing at his piano as the candles were lit and the sun set. I thought of him finishing up and then trudging through the snow in
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AI is not helping your ideas
“That picture you painted doesn’t look like the bay of Naples even though it’s called ‘The Bay of Naples’, bro!” says an AI zealot.“You got the prompt wrong. Ask your LLM to make a painting in the style of Cezanne!”, they continue.
