Announcement: Hey folks, the audiobook of my anti-AI novel - For Emma - has come out today. This book was written to be spoken & the voice actors have done such a beautiful job. So moving to hear the characters come alive. Enjoy. Link below:

Pentlands Book Festival. Tony Black and AEOS magazine. 😀

Live Aeos 4 #litmag

I am super-pleased to have a piece in the new AEOS magazine alongside such creative minds. The story of mine is brand new - it's a psych test. Enjoy!

Another big pile of AEOS Mags heading out this morning. Get yours fast! *Bananas not included* #aeosmag #litmag

Great to see Glorious Technicolor alongside work from @MrEwanMorrison et al in the latest @AeosMag NYC photo by William P. Gottlieb, 1948

A Britain built for a fall.

The only "artform" that thrives with Gen AI is Fan Fiction. Fan Fic is consumers rehashing & mashing-up famous cultural franchises - a culture eating its own waste. I wrote a history of Fan Fiction 13 years ago. If you want our culture to become Fan Fic, use Gen AI. Link👇

Monopoly control of film and tv by the internet streamers explained. Well worth a read.

In After the Hunt the director made an interesting rookie mistake with the sound. The music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross was close-mic'd in a studio, but the dialogue was all recorded wide in wide shots. The result was the music was spatially close & the performances distant.

"Hey Chat GPT, which of these five book proposals is the best for our publishing house to publish?" When publishing reaches this state, it's over for innovation and new ideas. Chatbots always select from the middle of the bell curve - from the "already successful".

The firm mopping the data center floors is making more money than half the AI startups training models there.

"Hey Chat GPT, which of these five book proposals is the best for our publishing house to publish?" When publishing reaches this state, it's over for innovation and new ideas. Chatbots always select from the middle of the bell curve - from the "already successful".

The Tinfoil Hat is a sarcastic name for people who support conspiracy theories or pseudoscience or who are seen as paranoid. The idea that foil hats could protect the wearer from mind controlling rays, appeared in 1909 with self-proclaimed "seer" J.Palfrey. Art by Teodora Axente.

In After the Hunt the director made an interesting rookie mistake with the sound. The music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross was close-mic'd in a studio, but the dialogue was all recorded wide in wide shots. The result was the music was spatially close & the performances distant.

Insight into why technocratic governments build regimes of lies - from the essay "The Power of the Powerless". By Václav Havel - Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright & dissident (1936-2011).

The famous Beckett quotation has been ripped out of context to be a 'motivational quote'. What comes next is this: " Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good."

Link: In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades. Is fan fiction something to be feared? And where did it all begin? https://t.co/zlA5XaQAnF

It's clear that AI pushers, shills & tech optimists don't even know how Large Language Models work. They believe that one day the 20-40% "hallucination" rate will be fixed & don't understand that it is "baked-in" to the very structure of LLMs. Educate them or block them.