Well, at some point in 2018 I seemed keen to try and blog, and there were some posts, and then somehow, it became 2023. So here we are with many possible entry points back into the blog and so I will start here, with AI and Nick Cave, because he says much of what I am feeling, but better, and because the Red Hand Files is such a lovely way to communicate.

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/

"Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Data doesn’t suffer. ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to reach beyond its limitations..."

---As always, such a master with words---