The Anxious Author

      Artificial intelligence has been a big topic in the art world lately. Some people have won awards for AI-generated content, others use it as nothing more than a filter on their Tik Tok pages, and still, others use it to write entire books. The question is, when does this fun little device become plagiarism? Where is the line that indicates what belongs to the robot and what belongs to the human?      You may say, robots and AI don't have rites. No, I suppose they don't because they are not living breathing creatures. However, that brings up a discussion on what gives a creature rites? Is it breathing? Or is it having the ability to think? We are still a while away from needing to have this discussion, though we get closer every day as inventors try to create realistic-looking AIs (aka, androids). Avoiding the Star Wars conundrum of whether droids should have rites, there are things we need to be considering as artists.      Here's the d...

      March was a busy month for me. I read 18 books, leading to me reaching 35/150 for my 2023 reading goal. I have my nieces and nephews to thank for this because there was a book fair at their school and my 7-year-old niece is into reading Mo Willems together. Of course, Goodreads still says I'm behind schedule, but that's because of the large number of books I pledged to read. 150 is pretty average for me. I'd like to beat the goal this year as last year I had to lower my goal from 200.      Here are my reviews for March... Roaring into the Sunset, Samuel J. White Read In March Contemporary Romance, Coming of Age, Motorcycles. New Adult Ebook 4/5 Roaring into the Sunset is a coming-of-age, new-adult novel. The main concept behind the book is interesting as it explores the idea that people see their lives flash before their eyes when they die. The story is told through the eyes of Dave and Sa...