Under the Surface
This page collects my thoughts about society. I write fiction with a social conscience which means I like to look under the carpet at the ‘stuff’ we pretend isn't there. I’m not prolific (i.e. annoying) . I prefer that people say - they don’t write a lot, but what they do is worth reading. Sign up to my mailing list to hear when I’ve posted new material.
What do New Zealand creatives think about Generative AI?
Would you be disappointed to find out that a piece of art you paid hundreds for was not done by a human but instead created by a machine?
Similarly, how would you feel about a poetry book being co-written by large language model Chat GPT?
My battle with the Public Lending Right hits the headlines
I love that my books are available in public libraries. I wrote them to be read and that New Zealand has a PLR scheme is great – in theory. It’s the practice where the bureaucracy of the scheme is Weberian.