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Maybe I'm generative
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You might have noticed that I didn't write to you for a couple weeks. I was offline, gathering sunbeams and swimming in the ocean. Monday was my first day back at work in a few weeks, and now it's suddenly Thursday afternoon. I've not accomplished a variety of my to-dos, and I honestly do not give a toss. There are other days to do to-do list items.
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While I was offline, I wrote a small short story, which I sent to you a couple of weeks ago. This week I posted it online. I also realised, again, that I spend all of my creative energy on work-work and don't have much left over for my own work. As much as I would like to change this dynamic, I've not figured out how to prioritise the unpaid (and costly), Laura-shaped things over that other stuff.
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It's not that I don't enjoy my work. It's not that I don't put really awesome, creative things into the world. I don't know that I want the unpaid, Laura-shaped things to be anything but what they are. A half finished album, a half finished audio book (that I'll probably never finish. I stopped recording years ago), more than a few half-baked ideas.
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I guess what I'm saying is - Don't worry. We've all got skeletons in the closet and they're sitting on a pile of unfinished projects.
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Maybe I'm playing
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Some Sundays I laugh and play games with a gaggle of Brits, including Dr Doug Belshaw, the famous digital literacies / open badges dude, and Dr Adam Procter, a professor and the programme lead of Games Design & Art at the University of Southampton. Humble brag – I have a direct line to these two not-tonsellectomy-approved very smart people.
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Anyway, this week we were talking about AI tools, and how the Entire Academic World is busy making policies to prevent students from cheating. Meanwhile, Doug is legit using ChatGPT as his personal assistant. Adam is telling his entire department and all its students to do whatever they want with these tools. I'm sporadically remembering that ChatGPT exists, then being frustrated at how stupid it is. I'm watching the bubble grow and thinking about putting "AI" somewhere on my LinkedIn profile just for laughs. Next week I'll start using YouChat instead of ChatGPT. They claim "no privacy-invading, targeted ads, tracking, or data sharing," in case you're interested.
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I studied media pedagogy, of course I'm super interested in the conversations happening around AI. I'm interested in the fear, the psychotic capitalisation, the ethics. It's absolutely fascinating for so many reasons. I just don't know what to do with it all.
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Maybe I need help?
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I really do need help, but not like I need help sometimes. I have all these little bits and pieces (my pile of unfinished projects). I'm thinking about hiring someone to write a script for me...or maybe someone to do some sound engineering...or maybe an archivist to sort through my 20+ years of digital artefacts...or maybe an editor...or maybe...maybe...maybe I'm just too busy for my own art. idfk.
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Ok, sorry. Now you talk. HOW ARE YOU!?
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