How do we listen to or create music, free from the influences of The Algorithms? For years, DIY music has been an appealing, sometimes entirely necessary source of relief and empowerment from the suffocation of Big Music.

I fed DALL-E my illustration and asked it to create variations and then variations on those variations until it created… this.

A cryptid is a creature that has not been proven to exist but people believe it does. Some famous examples are BigFoot, The Loch Ness Monster, Slenderman, etc. With ai generators creating horrifying monsters so quickly and without much thought, will their stories be as haunting as their predecessors?

99% of the time, I subscribe to the adage, “try it, you might like it!” By this logic, I should be racing over to ChatGPT to ask it to write my first novel and then explain to me how to get it published. But ChatGPT—and its bedfellows like DALL·E 2—are, for me, a bridge too far.

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