Richard Wilkinson

Once You Notice ChatGPT's Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge.

It's hardly the worst aspect of AI, but seeing so much obviously (and badly-written) ChatGPT content full of this kind of thing is infuriating. You'd think people would generate the text and then try to make it *not* sound like AI...
futurism.com/chatgpt-weir...

Finding the @google #AI overviews V useful...

Could be a big week... crossing all available digits for a couple of cool things I've pitched for. 🎼

There's been a lot of discussion recently about positive male role models, and having stumbled upon some of the big (British) YouTubers recently I was really surprised that most of them seem...really nice.
Positive, supportive, open & thoughtful as well as daft/entertaining/watchable.

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

we're all (rightly) worried about the impact of GenAI on jobs, culture etc. But this is predicting some much bigger storms, and within the next 5 years too. ai-2027.com #AI

Happy #PianoDay (yesterday). So happy Piano Boxing Day I suppose. I hope Father Piano treated you well, and there's enough Piano Cake left for today...

Some more noodling purely for the joy of it. As a perfectionist it's a challenge to *not* over-prepare and practice!

youtu.be/CycxmHf6jyU

YouTube video by Richard Wilkinson An attempt to play Supermassive Black Hole (MUSE) on two pianos without any prep

Full thing here, if you like that sort of thing.
And my wobbly desk is fine by the way, that's the trade off if you want a sitty standy setup...
youtu.be/TXq8JVoGi18

I love a bit of wool

Testing out a new camera setup for future BTS soundtrack vids. Thought I'd do something very hastily thrown together and very much non-rehearsed for #pianoday2025 #MUSE
#pianoday

50 points to anyone who can guess what I'm trying to play here... 🤔🎹

Well, as expected #Adolescence was great. Going through some of the BTS stuff while I emotionally recover! Hugely impressive from a technical point of view - the amount of effort required from the crew and actors, let alone doing some of the shots and camera moves they accomplished. Top-tier stuff.

Amorim persists and gives United fans a glimpse of a working plan | Barney Ronay After the pre-match protests about the owners, Amorim saw his wing-backs combine in what could be a taste of things to come

good writing stands out even more in the current landscape of AI slop...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Jessica Lee Gagné's work on that latest Severance ep is so, so good. Those film sequences looked gorgeous!

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight Former MI6 boss on Trump, Putin and a 'new era' for international relations

WATCH: "We are in a new era… where international relations aren’t going to be determined by rules… they're going to be determined by strong men."

Former MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger on Trump, Putin and changes to global diplomacy.

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FocQITpJnaQ

I keep thinking there must be a little door on the side of that Bear pit he could just walk through if he really wanted... Launching himself off a helicopter doesn't give him any advantage over just walking in 🤦🏻‍♂️

Can't help but feel Bear's dedication to camouflage is somewhat undermined by the cameraman stood next to him. #celebritybearhunt

Colour for me, hopefully there are some better contrast options than we had for the pebble time. I'd be fine with exactly that screen again though.

Many thanks for the vibes. All went well, time to write some more music now!

Lovely new bit of studio decoration from corgi

He makes himself big

Send good vibes if you can. Just sent off a pitch for a videogame soundtrack. Great project.
Not sure if having detailed metrics on Reelcrafter for how/where people listened, skipped through etc is helpful or not at this point!

Very excited about this

I'm sporadically having a completely unproductive argument with an AI evangelist on LinkedIn, which could probably just be summed up with the sentence, 'Curation is not creation'

You do good work Seth, but this blatant AI slop isn't helpful. If it's a Suno creation (which it absolutely sounds like) then it looks weird crediting it to a band.

Conquest by Norman, Music by me. On iPlayer now!

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama

Very very very very very good stuff, this.
youtu.be/QHi479xN_po?...

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers Joe Rogan and The Black Keys Diorama

Thanks to @sound-dust.bsky.social for pointing me towards Bobby Fingers - exactly the kind of thing YouTube was made for and a lovely antidote to the mental white noise that saturates a lot of that site.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4V...

www.wilx.co.uk/project-lwi/
Some cues from this new series of Lucy Worsley Investigates, now up on my site. I will do a video at some point, once there's a window of time - probably talking about the overarching theme/motif that spans the four episodes, why it's used and how it's implemented...

Just noticed the mis-spelling of our fabulous presenter's name in that graphic. Not my fault - sorry Lucy!