Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Poetry Reading – Sunday!

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    If you’re in London area this coming weekend, I’m going to be doing a slot at a poetry reading on Sunday, 1-3pm. The quality of the contributors is generally very high, so it should be a great event regardless of my input… but I’m looking forward to throwing some stuff out there. It’s at Rocket…

  • God-Like on BBC Talkback

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    Lovely to be invited onto William Crawley’s Talkback show on BBC Radio today. William has a PhD in philosophy, and was ordained too, and is an excellent presenter. The show was digging into the issues presented by the government’s announcement yesterday of the AI Action Plan. What I’ve been concerned about is that this plan…

  • Darwin Award Nominee – Rigging ChatGPT to an Assault Rifle

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    This will either end badly for him. Or for all of us. Truly, the Age of Stupid 😬

  • New Work – Reading on Tues 21st Jan

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    If you’re in London, I’m going to be doing a short reading of some new poems at Morocco Bound bookshop in Bermondsey on Tuesday 21st Jan. Details here.

  • New Year: Resolution?

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    I’ve been asked a few times – more than last year, it feels, subjectively – what New Year’s resolutions I have. A couple of times in, having dismissed the question, it was asked by my writing group. Well, when a group of writers ask, people you’ve opened your notebooks too (a place more vulnerable than…

  • Is the net closing for GenAI developers?

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    A new report published by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office – the ICO – a few weeks back saw some pretty stark reading for AI companies: We found a serious lack of transparency, especially in relation to training data within the industry, which our consultation responses show is negatively impacting the public’s trust in AI……