Blank Slade
Navigating AI seas on the winds of keyboard clicks.
Chapter 1:
Setting Sail
Today, it feels official. I signed the papers, sealed, and sent the packages needed to once again diverge my path from my Carrier and UTRC family, only this time to dive headlong into a life spent writing for a living. Now, after a morning of obligations upon the shore, I find myself in the sunbaked sea, pondering my first destination. Should I get a feel for the new language-powered AI ship I pilot in the safe waters of refined Prompt Engineering, or perhaps venture straight into a GPT-guided search for just the perfect Literary Agent thriving among the sharks lurking in deeper seas? Should I count my keystrokes, like little gusts billowing my sails, better spent completing and publishing my nearly finished novels: 'Sol Days' and 'Uno Mas'? It's in those sister sci-fi stories that my heart lies, and my true dreams, hopes, and desires are laid bare. Those electronic pages hold loved characters and the worlds those eclectic beings live within, where I am free to reveal the theories, emotions, and philosophies that I have otherwise found difficult to share. Yet, as I begin my long and unknown journey, with a slow drift away from safety, the clicking currency of my keys is happily spent sending a message in a bottle that invites each and every one of you to come along.
The image above was generated using the following prompt in C^GPT-4: “generate an image of the quoted text” above.
* I had planned to embed a link to the GPT session in the image but it seems I am not yet aware of OpenAI’s limits.
Dash the cat wonders if you think he is a GPT enhanced?
Generating a Bottle:
Now that I've written the message, I need to find a bottle to put it in. A blog is just notes on a computer until you find a place to share it, so I had a conversation with BUBuilder, a custom GPT I created on OpenAI, which can be read here: (but probably only with an OpenAI account - I’ll work on that.)
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-eGyU84fcD-bubuilder/c/e38a92f9-3d22-4a37-917e-17041d8df71f
Generate an image of Squarespace being the domain registrar and website host that becomes the bottle for an AI message.
Staking Domains
While I don’t expect to publish my great American novel or figure out all of the possibilities of AI today, I did set the goal of sending my message to you and for a bottle, so I made a decision based on the information C^GPT gave me. Google Domains was my first option and subsequent web search, which showed a limitation of the tool, the service having long ago been consumed by SquareSpace.
I tried BlueHost first based on mild delusions from C^ and a web search confirming them as a good choice, but a clunky checkout interface and difficulty interacting with their chat agents bot human and otherwise, I took staked my claims Squarespace. The interface was simple and intuitive to the point that I could work it out with C^.
Creating a Presence
Generations of Glen Blame.
Glen Blame Creatives has set sail. Website and blog day one, check.
I am AI intrigued, gaining an AI education, and empowered by my keystrokes. I hope you all come along.