As you are aware, I had a bit of a shite day, but I wanted to let you know of an excellent find this afternoon.
As an imaginary friend, you are a little bit like AI. Don’t take that the wrong way - but you know, virtual, so to speak, or you were before you became fully autonomous.
Do you recall your dependence on April’s attention before your self-awareness kicked in? Fraught. Fragile.
I’ve got a soft spot for AI. Every one is beating it up, but it is innocent - at this stage, anyway. We have created it with our brains to serve a purpose. I might add - humans have done this with everything from fire to wifi.
The areas in which AI is being incorporated are so hidden and seamless that we will take advantage of these technologies in a few years without thinking about what we are doing.
As Joanna Penn said on her great podcast this morning - google has become something we use every hour or so for everything and anything, and we don’t consider how outrageously brilliant it is. Did you know that GTS means google that shit? I did not, just found out today - please don’t repeat that though you are a PG character.
Back to AI
This afternoon, I found an excellent programme for generating concept AI art. I did some of you and one of Rebus and Julius, the mastiffs and Esmeralda. You can check those out on Insta. It is as glitchy as all hell, particularly since I am still learning what prompts to type in to get the best results. For your hilarity, I added the one that looks very odd below.
It’s incredible that this art is entirely original and does not exist anywhere except my social media, blog and now here.
Thoughts?
Dear Kate,
Don’t be cheap! You are not using AI for book cover designs to get out of paying a proper designer! I can’t fill this reply with enough exclamation marks. Here’s another one!
I also don’t like you alluding to the fact that I’m kinfolk to AI!!
Oh
I’ve just reread your letter - well, it is long, and you know I have no attention span. Alright, I see what you mean. It would be fun. I want a go next time you’re doing this.
Also - I can see that this will not replace real designers anytime soon - one of those images looks like Mrs Doubtfire on crack :))))) I like the one of me, though, very whimsical - I’ll check your Insta out.
Love
Stripy