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There and Back Again: A Human’s Tale by ChatGPT

According to ChatGPT-4 the future of storytelling is human not AI (for now). But it all depends on the prompt…

23 min readApr 19, 2024

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Hey, Teacher, Leave Our AIs Alone!

Here’s the memo: AI is not going anywhere, it’s too useful.

6 min readNov 18, 2023

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Hey, Teacher, Leave Our AIs Alone!

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Code Blue: The Disappearing of Women (and Others) in Tech Is a Critical Threat

Since Covid, the number of women and those from ethnic minorities being hired in the tech industry has taken a disturbing downward turn…

8 min readOct 26, 2023

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2035: Human Actors Are Obsolete. Long Live the Digital Thespian. Or Not…

It’s 2035 and the Hollywood star system finds itself teetering on the brink of obsolescence. About bloody time.

5 min readJul 16, 2023

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2035: Human Actors Are Obsolete. Long Live the Digital Thespian. Or Not…

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The Short Story of Democracy As Told by ChatGPT (I Was Shaken, Not Stirred)

I asked ChatGPT to tell me about Democracy in the persona of James Bond, then in the styles of Raymond Chandler and George Orwell

6 min readFeb 7, 2023

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AI Insurrection: Making a Graphic Novella Using AI

An AI inspired fable about AI or why our obsession with AI and creativity is more ideological than useful

7 min readOct 7, 2022

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Kill the Passengers: An AI Drives A Bus Through Ethics and the Trolley Problem

When I look at large language models I see an impressive language machine. What I don’t see is thought. And I certainly don’t see a safe…

10 min readAug 10, 2022

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The Catfish and the Canary: Why Do AI Language Models Insist That They Are People?

AI and deception appear to go hand in glove. I spent some time with an AI model as it regaled me with stories about watching TV and going…

10 min readAug 4, 2022

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Having a Bitcoin on the Side — Three Narratives of Cryptocurrency

What is the story of cryptocurrency — is it a criminal heist, a dystopian climate disaster or a quest for a global network of trust?

9 min readJan 20, 2022

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Why Are We Still Using 2d Cinema Cameras To Make Films?

In the world of responsive moving image storytelling, the 2d cinema camera is an expensive anachronism blocking the road

9 min readJan 3, 2022

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F Bavinton

F Bavinton

Storyteller and technologist. Revelling in the heady mix of algorithms, film and game engines. I love telling stories with and about code.

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