AI and Me

 

Lately it seems more and more of 'life' on line comes with a helping of 'artificial intelligence' - which has less knowledge and more 'thieving' to it.

Again, I'm seeing a wash of authors speaking up, saying that their books have been stolen by LLM companies to 'train' their 'AI'.  

When someone who is *not* a writer tells me (or another author) that they are going to just use AI to write books and make a mint, it is really difficult to say nothing.  

Even my Google email now offers to help me 'summarize' my emails, or gives me writing prompts.

Excuse me, I can write my own thoughts, thankyouverymuch.

Likewise I'm seeing more 'new' weavers popping up, asking for help.  I remind myself that they just don't know - how wide, deep and thick the craft is - and how many centuries humans have been weaving to generate a many lifetimes' worth of knowledge.

Since I am now 'elderly' and crabby with it, I try to scroll on by, unless the question is specific enough I feel I can give a meaningful answer.

But since I've been doing this thing that I do for most of my life, I also feel like I have already said everything that I could (or should?) say.

I'm asking myself again if I should give up, give over, and ignore the pleas for help.  And then I get an email from a publication saying 'please write'.  

And I remind myself that for all that I've published 4 books, written so many articles I'm not even sure how many there have been, and this blog since Aug. 2008, none of those things have given me the audience I might get by appearing in a large audience magazine.

I have been procrastinating about finishing the article that is *almost* done, and I have begun working on the 'next' article.  And now I have a list of topics the magazine is hoping someone will write about.  Do I pull out my 'usual' culprits?  Or do I go further afield from my 'usual' and maybe talk about something else for a change?

Whatever I decide I should let them know I'm interested...

Today's job task:  press 21 towels; begin threading new warp; create chart of samples for nearly-done article and proof read.  And yet, once again I'm dragging my feet getting to the studio...