I asked ChatGPT for ideas for posts, one of its suggestions was my five favourite/best holiday photographs. While I like the idea and will at some point write a post around my five favourite/best photos, I thought I’d flip the idea and write about my dullest/WTF photographs. We all have photos in our camera rolls where, looking back, you think, why did I take that photo?, why did I think it was worthy of one?
We live in a world where AI is changing everything we do , from what we watch on Netflix, to the “personalised” doomscrolling it serves on social media (because the algorithms know us better than we know ourselves). It creates images and videos, summarises emails, diagnoses cancer, and , most importantly, helps part-time personal bloggers (me) ramble on about it.
The Geekhood has always been about obsession. Some of us obsess over gadgets, some over Star Trek, some over comic books, and a few brave souls over memorising the entire Elvish dictionary. We geeks dive too deep into things normal people shrug at. That’s the fun. That’s the badge of honor.
Now AI has rolled up to the party like the new kid in school who already knows everyone’s Wi-Fi password. And the question is, what happens when machines start geeking out harder than we do?
I was minding my own business the other day, listening to an old episode of James O’Brien’s Mystery Hour on LBC (from 2019, if you must know), when a caller rang in with a question. Who invented the electric toaster? Now, being a lover of boring random trivia and obscure knowledge, my ears pricked up.
Following on from my Michael or Mike? Just Don’t Call Me Mick posts, I figured it was time to take things a step further, with a song.
I headed over to Suno.com with a very specific vibe in mind: something poppy, sassy, and just the right amount of camp. Think I’m Just Ken from the Barbie movie. I haven’t actually seen the film, but I caught Ryan Gosling’s performance at the Oscars and thought, “Yep, that’s the energy.”
