stage set library of tomfoolery

CHATGPT COUNTS AS AI ART

You cannot be completely against the concept of a generator thieving someone’s original concepts, ideas and work to create something new if you think that only applies to visual creativity.

You are part of the problem if you think this way.

The written word is a form of art, but if somehow you don’t see it that way, here’s a more logical perspective.

Just remember that both written word generators and visual art generators run on the same code and do the exact same thing; destroy creativity, plagiarise hard work, and wipe out entire industries that have been around for thousands of years.

who up merrying their wives of windsor rn?

who up midsummering their night’s dream rn?

who up richarding their third rn?

who up romeoing their juliet rn?

-AIDS

-AI (“Your telling me artificial intelligence is more intelligent than me? That is unheard of.” “Don’t worry Henry, it still can’t spell ‘strawberry’ correctly.”)

-Australia

-The mobile phone (“How does this work?” “Well with this particular model you swipe up to unlock…” “Yes, but what does it do?” “So many things! It’s like a portable laptop!” “A portable WHAT.”)

-The laptop ( “it’s a computer but… it fits on your lap I guess?” “Please never show me one.”)

-The kindle.

-Solar panels/hydroelectricity farms.

-Climate change ( “So why is the earth warming up…?” “It’s because of like greenhouse gasses and being unsustainable?” “And you’re just LETTING the scientist tell you this? How do we know it isn’t a lie to improve the economy!”)

-Video games

“Thats the king. Treat him nice, use some brains, now protect him.” Marvin is referring to himself as the king and asking Whizzer to care for and protect him.

“Start again, we’ve seen the worst.” They began the relationship again after a really toxic first year in which they ‘saw the worst’ of each other.

Followed by Whizzer’s “I’ll go first.” Whizzer dies first out of the two of them, and also dies before they have a fulfilling life together with this new decently healthy relationship.

Whizzer’s repeated soft request for Marvin to “Move the pawn” is a request for him to be more active in the relationship, pretty much saying it’s his turn.

“More’s the pity, since you need a man who’s brainy.” Whizzer’s callback to Marvin’s first line, he’s been led to believe that all he’s good for in the relationship is playing the stereotypical ‘wife’ role that Marvin forced him into. He doesn’t understand why Marvin suddenly wants someone who’s ‘smart’. The “What should I do now, how should I behave myself?” afterwards confirms his confusion.

So, since all I ever hear about is the similarities between IWWV and TSH, here are some of my favourite differences.

The murders occurred for very different reasons. In TSH, Bunny was murdered because Henry believed he might go to the police about the murder they’d already committed, among other reasons like his newfound abusive behaviour towards some members of the group. In IWWV, the murder of Richard was a partial accident, and done completely in self defence. While both Bunny and Richard were murdered in part because of their abuse towards their respective groups, there was an actual plan in place for Bunny’s murder, while Richard’s was purely because James had no other choice.

The approach to the genre of the story. In TSH, the story is told as a snowball of events, leading to the demise of the group’s dynamic and the eventual end to Henry’s life. The story, in my opinion, defies genre. In IWWV, the story reads as more of a mystery, though the switching from present day to past tense prevents it from being a true murder mystery. It isn’t obvious who actually killed Richard until the end of the story, even if we find out that all of the characters choose to leave him to die when they find out he is still alive.

The narrator’s perspective on the story. In TSH, Richard is a very unreliable narrator, telling the story as an outsider coming into this world and romanticising a lot of the events. This serves the purpose of the story well, as the general lesson learned is to be careful falling in love with an aesthetic. In IWWV, Oliver tells the story as someone who knows the dynamic of the group and has been a part of it for years. He is much more reliable, which serves the mystery element of the story well.

The portrayal of the characters. In TSH, the author has created characters that we are supposed to dislike, characters that are genuinely terrible people. This was done on purpose, meant to be uncovered with the narrator as he realises that this great group he joined isn’t all that great. Despite this, I do believe that a lot of the characters were influenced by Henry and Julian (who both show symptoms of narcissism and other personality disorders). In IWWV, the author portrayed characters who are more akin to typical college age people. They’re social with other students, go to parties, and engage in banter and friendly arguments. While they are more outcast than their peers, they aren’t living as outright recluses as the characters in TSH are. This is why people generally prefer the characters in IWWV over TSH, and consider them to be ‘nicer’.

‘Why won’t anybody upgrade?’

‘They can upgrade…’

‘But they don’t care.’