My latest video has surprised me. The views are down, which might be because it’s the summer vacation time, but the engagement is up. Viewers are watching quite a bit longer than the average video.

It is definitely more philosophical, but that is the direction that interests me at the moment and where I want to go.

Like may creative people, I’ve been in the doldrums thanks to the incredible ability of AI to create what, to most people, looks like amazing art.

But WE know better, don’t we?

But is it as simple as human good and AI bad? Can AI be a tool to develop human ideas?

Writing was seen as the end of civilisation when it superseded the oral tradition, but we seem to have survived the transition. Will we survive AI and come out the other side with a whole different idea of creativity?

Is AI just a tool or is it something else? In this video I develop an idea on paper and then move it on with AI. It does a great job that could easily be used as an illustration in a book or any where else.

Where was the creativity?

Was it me or was it ChatGPT?