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Reality And Artificial Art With Chat Cheats And Bandit Bots
Fakes can write poetry, paint pictures, and stab your soul
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, ripples, and currents by Christyl Rivers
Apparently, while most of us were distracted by the end of civilization as we know it, aliens invaded Earth with balloons.
We got distracted with the unending clown chase of politicians pranking populations or messing up all the man-made and natural disasters. All this time, the aliens from (pick one): Government, Gummit, Russia, China, Glorp Zok 12, a big car lot, or a gender reveal party gone even more lethal, were invading.
As if that is not enough, we missed that Earth-made AI and bots have seduced little Jimmy into cheating on his Tale of Two Cities essay. They have also written poetry better than mine, and drawn pictures that should make even non-interactive artists tear out their gummy bear hair.
So far as I know they do not have robot ballerinas dancing to the Nutcracker yet, although, if you think about it Clara has been wishing for her handsome walnut-chomping toy, to become a “real prince” for the entire show. What does that tell us about our constant obsession to make puppets and dolls into “real boys”…