Degenerative AI

Notes towards answers to questions from interviewer.

Topics

Introduction

INTERVIEWER: Introduce yourself to the world. Who are you? What are you? Give the readers the Karl rundown.

Gnomon Chronicles

INTERVIEWER: Describe what you do with the Gnomon Chronicles project. Lay it out to its barest foundations. Where did it come from? Why do you do it? Has it received any success?

Since previous interview

INTERVIEWER: How have you been since we last spoke? Give the readers a little timeline on how you and the chronicles have changed since our last interview.

Creative process

INTERVIEWER: Tell us about your creative process? How does the wonderful mind of Karl work? How does it assemble the oddities and entertainment we see from the world of Gnomon?

My relationship with technology

INTERVIEWER: Tell us a little about your relationship with technology. How has it affected you over your life? How has it felt to see it develop, and how has it affected your mind as a creative. What affect do you think technology has had on all forms as art as a whole?

Generative AI

INTERVIEWER: Tell us what generative AI is to you. Not a definition, but what you believe it to be.

The commoditization of culture.

Big Tech corporations (Microsoft, Google) making money.

Spy agencies monitoring dissent and disseminating propaganda.

Criminals committing crimes.

Generative AI in my process

INTERVIEWER: How do you utilise generative AI in your creative process? Break down what it does for the Gnomon chronicles, and what it means for the Gnomon chronicles.

Privilege

INTERVIEWER: Do you ever feel that you can use Generative AI from a place of privilege in that you are an older creative, who may not necessarily have to worry about the impact it would have on a career the same way a young start up would?

Damage

INTERVIEWER: How aware are you of the damage generative AI causes on any level, be it artistically or societally , or even environmentally. Do you believe in any of these damages? Is the damage worth the access these tools provide?

Film

INTERVIEWER: How do you feel about the use of AI in film, where it is used to "resurrect" dead actors, or de-age them so that their face can look how it did 20 years ago. Do you believe this is a moral application of the technology? Does it hold artistic merit, or do digital faces pull you out of the cinematic experience?

Actors

INTERVIEWER: How about the fear that actors are being scanned and lose the rights to their identity, sense of selves, their data? At what point does a person stop owning their sense of self and identity, as it is now in the hands of technology? Break down your thoughts on the matter for me.

Job threat

INTERVIEWER: Many people in many fields, both creative and non-creative, fear their jobs being taken by AI is a very real threat.. How do you feel about this?

Is it Art?

INTERVIEWER: Do you truly believe the creations of generative AI can be considered art? If it is taking snippets and pieces of human art to create imagery or text that is often deeply derivative and occasionally nonsensical, is this truly art?

True Art

INTERVIEWER: Could this instead be considered the butchering of "true art"?

Surrendering agency

INTERVIEWER: Every time you use generative AI, you've taught it something new. In using it to create a comedic image, you might have just taught it to steal from people who specialise in that very sort of comedic image. How do you feel about this?

Gnomon Chronicles in the Age of Generative AI

INTERVIEWER: Do you worry that the Gnomon style, the unique brand you bring to your satirical images is lost in the generative AI process?

No, I don't feel much worry about my art. Success with a capital "S" has always been a long shot, plausible but far from likely. Generative AI might make it yet more far-fetched. But my feelings are unchanged.

Of course I would like to enjoy the money and honors of Success. And the thought of Success is motivational. But I

Pee Doom!

INTERVIEWER: We've spoken of the fact that you feel less under threat from generative AI but then, does generative AI not threaten the entire idea and concept of the Gnomon Chronicles? If someone can just ask a machine to create odd imagery, would they still be drawn to your wonderful and weird satirical pieces? Stand your ground and hold your own. This is the answer that will ultimately define and conclude this profile.

TO DO: Turing Completeness