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Roll up! Roll up! OpenAI now offering a miracle cure… for ChatGPT

February 1, 2023 No Comments

OpenAI are making an astoundingly successful business out of releasing products that sort of work, most of the time, but that they themselves say you shouldn’t use and will probably make mistakes… https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579942/chatgpt-ai-text-detection-openai-classifier Most EULAs and software licences say the same sort of thing, but far less of overtly but

ChatGPT agrees – AI creations are derivative and subject to copyright law

January 20, 2023 No Comments

The battle between copyright holders and generative AI platforms is heating up. What happens when I ask Open AI’s ChatGPT for some copyright advice? Copyright holders are starting to sue AI vendors Whether it’s screeds of text or pretty pictures, generative AI needs a large bank of training data to

Getting Started with Pictory.ai and Text-to-Video

January 14, 2023 No Comments

Are you interested in using video to promote your writing but aren’t quite ready to “dance dance dance” like Wednesday Adams? Text-to-video tools can help, so I took pictory.ai out for a try. What is text-to-video? Text-to-video tools take a block of text, like a blog post, and generate a

Mastodon Servers for Writers

January 11, 2023 1 Comment

Which servers are best for writers joining Mastodon? Here’s how to decide where to make your new digital home… Why does Mastodon ask me to pick a server when I sign up? Mastodon is a federated social network – this makes it different to other social networks such as Twitter

Google Issues ‘Code Red’ Over ChatGPT

December 26, 2022 No Comments

Business Insider are reporting a “Code Red” alert being issued over at Google as the management team panic about the image of ChatGPT on their search engine business. It’s a great reminder that no business, no matter how large, is immune to disruption. Google is sitting on a database of

AI-Created Comic Has Been Deemed Ineligible for Copyright Protection

December 24, 2022 2 Comments

The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has reversed an earlier decision to grant a copyright to a comic book that was created using “A.I. art,” and announced that the copyright protection on the comic book will be revoked, stating that copyrighted works must be created by humans to gain official

Stable Diffusion won’t steal your art (if you tell them not to)

December 18, 2022 No Comments

StabilityAI has announced that they will honour artists who choose to “opt-out” of having their artwork included AI training data for the next iteration of their picture-making machine, Stable Diffusion 3. Frankly, I think this is a bogus move. Of all the millions of artists out there, only a tiny

On the topic of AI; Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion

December 16, 2022 No Comments

I’ve come to the conclusion that how impressive you think a piece of AI is directly correlates to your level of expertise in the skill that the AI is emulating (AIs don’t have skills, in my opinion – they emulate them by shredding, blending, and regurgitating the work of others).

Chris Lynch Interview with Radio Cardiff

December 8, 2022 No Comments

A huge thank you to Ceri Stennett for interviewing me for his show on Radio Cardiff. Ceri did a marvellous job of keeping me on-topic so I am mostly talking about my new book, The Best Christmas Ever, as well as my work with Candy Jar on the Lucy Wilson

Why you should try Chrome OS Flex

December 4, 2022 No Comments

I wish more people knew about Chrome OS Flex. Chrome OS Flex Home Installation: https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11552529 If you’re not “in the know”, Chrome OS Flex allows you to install the same operating system that ships with a new Chromebook, but onto existing PC and Mac hardware. The operating system is complete