I decided to re-read The Names (1982) by Don DeLillo in a moment of spontaneity after reading Amazons by Cleo Birdwell. Amazons (1980) was also written by DeLillo but he’s spent most of the 40+ years since its publication pretending he didn’t, and th...

What would you do if you were stuck living the same day over and over again? That’s the basic conundrum of On The Calculation of Volume, a 7 book series by Danish author Solvej Balle, which has three volumes published in English so far. Rather than d...

They say that the best revenge is living well and while I don’t believe that for a second, even if it was, it wouldn’t make for much of a novel, would it? In the case of The Count of Monte Cristo living well isn’t really an option either. After being...

I liked the six letter words Legion retelling enough that I thought I’d try make the constraint harder for ChatGPT. So I asked it to do the story in words of five letters or fewer. It got it wrong in the first instance, using Christ when Jesus would...

I thought I’d maybe show you something I don’t hate. So, when I started using ChatGPT I was sceptical. And then I had it do a few things and I got a little bit impressed. Then I got it to do a lot more and became far less impressed. At least as it st...

I saw a popular Twitter account state that the three worst words were: 1. Holibobs 2. Crimbo 3. Hubby. Underneath people added several more perfectly cromulent words, so I decided to see what I could get ChatGPT to do with them. Fair warning, nothing...

I haven’t posted much as I’ve been hyper-focussed on learning (memorising) my script for the Legion set at the end of the month. However, with the ongoing Covid Inquiry, let me show you how it does when you ask it something vaguely political (whilst...

I asked ChatGPT to explain the Legion story with words of six letters or fewer. It actually adhered to the prompt as well, which is a first. It wasn’t that interesting to read but it got me thinking about something more interesting I have been trying...

As you’ll be aware, the piece I’m performing at the end of November is a retelling of the story of Legion. The story can be read in Mark here. Some of the jump-off for the idea came from messing around with that story in ChatGPT. There’s a couple I’l...

I decided to ask ChatGPT what it wanted to write a Poem about. Naturally, it expressed a reticence to commit typical of its programming, saying: ‘Though I don’t possess desires or feelings like humans do, I’m always eager to explore new and unique th...