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AI and the writer

Feature articles, news and opinion about the burgeoning world of artificial intelligence and how it might affect writers and other creatives

By Raymond G. TaylorPublished 9 months ago Updated 7 months ago 4 min read
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Artificial intelligence articles, news and opinion from the perspective of the writer and other creatives.

AI: Your new writing buddy?

How to use AI tools like GPT to help boost creativity and to support your latest writing project

AI, psychopathy and success

Part of ongoing research into use of artificial intelligence for writers, this is an article about psychopaths who are not violent offenders, written with the assistance of an AI buddy

AI capability: A history of the English town of Beckenham

An article 100% AI generated to a detailed requirement in order to demonstrate the capability (or otherwise) of ChatGPT

Lichtenstein: your AI guide

Which is better, an article generated by ChatGPT or one written by a person (me)? For this AI experiment, I wrote an article about Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! and then generated an article to a similar brief using ChatGPT.

AI: Academic research and modern slavery

A practical demonstration of one way in which ChatGPT may be used to assist the research and writing process for a postgraduate paper on a given topic: in this case modern slavery

Part 2: Literature review

Part 3: Limitations

News July 2023: Actor strike targets AI

Stars join writers in pay and AI walkout

Interview with an AI

I thought it would be fun to interview an AI application so did just that and here are the results

Learning from an AI

What can we learn by interacting with an artificial intelligence application? Key finding from the Interview with an AI

AI: Daylight robbery?

New Scientist is baffled by how to deal with the threat of AIs like ChatGPT running off with the publisher's valuable content. The answer is simple.

AI and GPT-3: everyday uses

Amid all the horror stories about AI, what day-to-day uses for this kind of technology are there?

'How to' guides for writers

How to write a story in 100 words (or less)

Not as tough as it may at first seem

Picture it this way

Illustrating online stories with images from Unsplash or Pixabay might be a safe option but is it the best?

Writing witches and witchery

How to write witches and witchcraft and what are the conventions when dealing with this form of fiction?

How to write like Pulp Fiction

The script of Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction provides an object lesson in how to write good dramatic action

How not to plot

Trying to dream up a storyline is often a mistake. You could be trying too hard

Art

Looking up at art one: Constable

First part of a series of articles - Looking up at Art - discusses how we can look more closely at paintings and learn more about the story behind the picture. Constable, The Cornfield, provides the example

Looking up at art two: Francis Bacon

Part two in the series considers love, loss, alienation and meaning in Bacon's enigmatic Triptych August 1972

The Hands

Barbara Hepworth is best-known for her signature sculptures of the human form abstracted in organic, polished stone, wood and other materials. She was also a painter and this article takes a closer look at her study of figures preparing for a surgical operation: The Hands

Exhibitions

Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life

Hepworth exhibition at Tate St Ives in Cornwall, South-West England brought together sculpture, painting, archive film with her theatrical costumes and set designs. A truly remarkable event.

Reviews

If you enjoyed reading this roundup of some of the best recent stories in the new Vocal Media Art community, you might also like:

Art for our sake

Part One of Ray's roundup of Art community stories. Some fabulous work as the Art community is launched.

Art for our sake: Two

Second in a series of reviews of some of the great stories in the Vocal Media Art community

Art for our sake: Three

A horseman in the sky

A sentry asleep on a hilltop is suddenly brought to alertness

What we fear most

Book review, Ben Cave, What we fear most: reflections on a life in forensic psychiatry.

Book reviews: three authors

Two Stephen King reviews, one Raymond Chandler, and a Conn Iggulden, all of which show us how to write great stories

Yep, it's WITCHING HOUR folks

This week's review slot (number seven if you are counting) takes a look at a bumper collection of fright night stories from 22 great authors. If you love a creepy quick read, this is for you

This week's reviews: six

A wolfy theme to this week's reviews - sixth in the weekly series. Real wolves, mythical wolves, and plenty of great writing

This week's reviews: five

Week 5 of Ray's short story and other reviews

This week's reviews FOUR

Week 4 of Ray's short story and other reviews

This week's reviews THREE

Week 3 of Ray's short story and other reviews

This week's reviews: TWO

Week 2 of Ray's short story (and other) reviews

This week's reviews ONE

A very brief roundup of the latest short stories in fiction. The original review space

SHORT STORIES

A selection of some of Ray's short stories

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About the Creator

Raymond G. Taylor

Author based in Kent, England. A writer of fictional short stories in a wide range of genres, he has been a non-fiction writer since the 1980s. Non-fiction subjects include art, history, technology, business, law, and the human condition.

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  • Mark Graham9 months ago

    Interesting, but I am still a very old fashioned writer and still most of the time use a pen, pencil with eraser and a composition notebook.

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