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What, again? Didn’t you alredy post this review?
So, I decided that the review was at too high of a level, so I did a new one. Let me know if this one is better.
It turns out the new was got a bit long, so I broke it into three parts. This is the first part—a summary but with more context. The other two parts shall follow.
The trailer advert for Hemo Sapiens: Awakening is now available on YouTube as a 60-second short.
I think I’ll stick to writing. The cover-making wasn’t half bad, but video production with Generative AI is not all it’s cracked up to be.
I considered Artlist.io, but I didn’t want to spend the cash. Maybe next time.
Let me know what you think. You can find a copy of the book from a link on my announcement page. If you get a copy, leave a review. It helps to appease the algorithm gods.
This is a wonderful interview with Science Fiction writer, Cory Doctorow, on the desire by some to replace screenwriters with AI. I recommend rewinding to watch the entire clip, but this is cued to his response on AI and writing.
When you see a Hollywood exec saying, effectively, “We want to fire all the screenwriters and replace them with plausible sentence generators’, that’s because, even if the plausible sentence generators aren’t very good, they have this weird hubristic faith in their ability to, through iteration, replace the screenwriter who wrote good dialogue with their own kind of wild-ass ideas. And you know the screenwriter’s experience of getting notes from an executive is already just AI prompting, right? Like, I need you to write me a version of Indiana Jones but in space—and could you make it a horror movie but make the hero a 10-year-old girl, right? That is, you know, your classic executive-to-writer note. And then the writer makes it, and they go, ‘Can you bring in a lovable animal in act two?’ This is just prompting, right? This is just like me writing instructions for removing a grilled cheese sandwich from a VCR in the style of the King James Bible, right? It’s just prompting. And so, you know what you get with automation is not something that’s good but something that doesn’t complain when you try to impose your genius on it. And it’s ever been thus.
— Cory Doctorow
At the beginning of the interview he discusses how he connects with the reader.
Interview with Ridley Park continues.
In this interview, Ridley discusses his motivation for writing this book.
Take a look at my first YouTube video on ElevenLabs, where I suggest three new features.
Ridley Park 