What this blog is for?
It is not for any one thing.
It is multifunctional.
Primarily it’s a public record of my research, offloading observations, experimenting with what the technology makes possible, general goofery. My research goes off into a lot of different directions. A functional human mind is associative. Each direction generally cross-fertilises with the other directions.
I want to get to the bottom of a thing, possibly the heart of the thing, so I need a place to store the roots of branches of that thing. That is generally what the posts are. If that means half a dozen similar blogs as steps of a process, so be it. I use manually crafted menu’s to help navigate the often confusing deluge of cross-referenced flowlines.
Now that we have AI technology, and this is one purpose of using this blog, SAT-AI, is to be able to say to an AI;
"Cross-check this list of blog (links to blogs), how do they relate, how do they relate to the concept of (whatever the idea is)."
"Create a structure, using the 'storytelling formatting blueprint' from this blog (link), with the concepts found in these sources (links to blogs)."
A Justification Of Intention And Authenticity
I put a lot of time into making the blogs; using the AI this way as a shortcut means I can now display for others to see clearly, the big chunks of data which although my mind is capable to process, it takes a lot of hard work structuring it into a format for me to be able to share the ideas with other people.
I am right-brained, I love 'panster' freeform aspect of storytelling, however when it comes to doing the logical bits to improve my stories, thats where I usually hit a wall. Which results in yet another abandoned project.
Once I have a structured framework for my novel, I can get on with writing it in my own words, in the right order for it to make sense. I do not believe this is 'cheating' as a writer, since I am getting a calculator to do the calculus part, which I do have a problem with.
As soon as I go back through my huge piles of projects, notepad stacks twelve feet tall, and a lot more than that saved digitally, to use them as sources for applying the AI structuring process too, I will become a prolific and original author. It is not 'AI writing'.
The research uses and AI for doing calculations (this blog site SAT-AI contains a lot of that).
I admit, that is AI generated content. The blog it titled SAT-AI. Bit of a clue.
It does NOT mean "my real writing" is created by use of prompts. No sir. I do that real work by hand with my own brain.
The finished writing however, once I have organised it, is purely written by me in my own voice. I could be hand-writing note-cards the way some writers used to do it before we had computers (and I know some who still do). It is messy and time consuming and I lose the notecards. The AI is simply that same index. It is the same as files full of hand-copied notes and photocopies of books from the library and newspaper clippings and inspirational pictures of characters and locations, which I then attempt to poetically describe in words.
I categorically do not say to an AI; "write me a story about the thing" and publish it as my own work. That would be 'AI writer' territory. Yuck. No.
The hours of research, getting ready to travel to town, travel to town, finding the book in the library, photocopying it, paying for that, or copytyping it, well I already spent months of my life doing that shit before I came along to be able to do the same thing, better, from more research sources, much faster. It would be foolish not to use it for that purpose. Any writer throughout history who had the same tool, would use it that way too, unless they're romantically stubborn and mad.
#justified