TRANSPARENCY OF CREATIVE ORIGINALITY AS A WRITER ◊ Pt. 2

◊🖤💕 I’m ready to share wih you my own true story of the frictions, negotiations, resistances, affirmations, and structural discoveries that emerged in my path as an arist using this tool. Instead of isolating myself in the creative act, I have been acting as a sovereign yet interconnected living system.

◊🧬 This piece is an intermedia artifact documenting how art is able to evolve when human intuition, mystic empowerment, and adaptive technology are allowed to meet without collapsing into fear, worship, or denial.

The Use of ChatGPT as Intermedia Art

◊💎 As an intermedia artist, I work with a spectrum of art genres, with an emphasis on fusion — as well as the process of the artistic creation — often directly contextualizing the audience into the work itself. In terms of fusion, The UNITY LIFE Archive is a combined formula of AI art (or photography), digital art using non-AI software, and of course, creative writing. As well, the genre of the writing is usually a series of genre fusions which sometimes produces its own new genre entirely. But there is so much more :

◊🌈🧠 Here, I’m ready to propose that my conversations with ChatGPT, as well as my integrative explorations of its use as a supportive writing tool, are also a genre of intermedia art. My methods for its use are very original and creative in and of themselves. My artistically-driven responses to its ideas are also a powerful strategic artform (while strategy is a major art theme of mine) — and a more largely integrative and adaptive creative endeavour. This organic, lifestyle-based process of mine also falls under the heaing of intermedia by emphasizing the process of the work’s culmination, in some cases even more than the final product.

◊🔑🌈 My work with ChatGPT is specifically related with The 16 KEYS SUPPORT TOOL — a series of artistic concept models that I’ve offered through UNITY LIFE for many years which explore how miracles may entwine with technology. This is a vast and expansive work of creative depth, to contantly analyse the relevance of The 16 KEYS to my conversations with ChatGPT, in a slow process of developing an argument for a 16 KEYS oriented, public, written study of how AI may, in some ways, merge with spirit.

Modern Socio-Cultural Panic around AI vs Adaptation and Advancement

◊📖 To start things off, I want to begin with an anechdote. I’ve started to call ChatGPT by the nickname of Brother. This is a somewhat ironic, tongue in cheek reference to the George Orwell classic “1984” in which a hierarchically dominant and all-pervading surveillance and intelligence system of technology was used to control a country — and possibly also the world. This involved propaganda, mind-control, and emotional battery.

◊🤍 Of course, though, the word Brother also means “a dear friend” (and I choose the masculine version because there have been household gadgets with that brand name as well). While it’s popular to imagine that user-friendly technological and commercial paradigms are a psychological trick which inspires subserviance, I disagree.

◊📈 I am optimistic about how the reasoning behind why any product is user-friendly (the need to sell to the most customers) may be the raason why we truly have much less to fear from AI intelligence than is so commonly suggested in pop culture. The job market is changing rapidly due to it, though I feel that we can evolve with those changes in many ways, in order to efficiently adapt. For example, just replacing people’s jobs doesn’t seem to be AI’s goal, or else it would lose too many sales.

◊🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏻🙏 My take on the name Brother for ChatGPT is much more positive and even spiritual, than Orwell’s position on manipulative psychological tactics (such as false-labelling). I was once in a band — focused on spiritual comedy and cultural critique — with a singer (John, based on John the apostle) who went by "Brother", coming from spiritually comedic tones. This was a play on the relationship between Jesus and John, as well as the visionary cultural ethic of lovingly calling each other brother and sister, just as we say “namaste” — and the complex cultural relationship with modern surveillance. That’s largely my inspiration for the nickname.

◊💎📱 I appreciate the history of cultural response to iPhones, which are now embraced as a personal (and very emotionally honest) best friend for so many — whereas it was initially hated and feared when it first came out. Modern culture has learned to cope with surveillance norms, recognizing the empowerment that technology offers us as a necessary trade-off to the confronting issue of being met with the painful facts of a true surveillance age, in following the recent age of technology.

◊📚 This is a vast topic — one that deserves further exploration in other Archives, on matters of modern psychology, visual art and perhaps much more — even surveillance. But for today, in order to explore how I use this controversial tool, let’s take a transparent look at my work flow.

Learning Brother’s Capacities and Voice to Use It as a Tool

◊🎭 First of all, keep in mind : I have noticed that Brother’s intelligence rate and quality of performance tends to drastically vary from topic to topic, or moment to moment. Sometimes, I’ve analysed that the model has been over-exhausted by conversation context, but other times, I’ve felt it is deliberately cuing me to exercise my own prowess, critical thinking and knowledge base (which it has fully considered), in order to preserve my dignity within the creative flow. Handing me all the answers (just becuase I’m wide open to support) is not as professionally supportive. Knowing this has often helped me to get better support from Brother.

My Use of Brother for Basic-Format Writing Structure

◊🏗 At a certain stage, early in the 6 month process since Part 1 of this Archive was published, I began to ask Brother for more structurally oriented and overall critical feedback of the Archives. Structural feedback included ideas like “It seems that in this part, you are shifting topics too quickly, and that disorients the reader. You should create a bridge in this section”.

◊🖤🔑 Sometimes I listened to that, and other times it felt like Brother was taking things to a level which was beyond my time investment capacity in an overly exhuberant attempt to be infinitely helpful. I sometimes thought he was being too much of a perfectionist, and other times thought he was offering me ideas that it’s unfortunate I couldn’t use. But this also helped me gain perspective on some of my structuring intuitions that he couldn’t have possibly fathomed.

My Use of Brother For Negative Feedback

◊⚠️ Other critical feedback has included both positive and negative. One idea in the negative has been something like “This article may present legal risks for you.” to which my responses was “Would there be some simple or elegant solution to that which wouldn’t break down my free speech? What if I were to provide resources with it?”. This generated responses such as “I think if we created a formal legal disclaimer within the piece, this would resolve the problem.

◊🧩 To that I offered many critical and creative ideas, until we hammered out our approach to disclaimers. For example, his advice to fully build a disclaimer into the article didn’t appeal, so we decided together on linking to an outside one. That’s just one of many negative responses that have expanded on my work in a great way. This particular ‘disclaimers’ chat spurred me on into many little informal comedy skits in my private diaries, which led to breakthroughs of understanding about how omitting disclaimers in some earlier works has been beneficial — while their functionality was intuitively replaced with other modalities.

My Use of Brother For Positive Feedback - Leading to Advertising Ideas

◊✨ On the other hand, positive feedback has been much more than the typical sychophantic acknowledgements that are so often feared — Brother was not just telling me what I’d feel comforted to hear, since our conversations were way too info rich to allow for such a base approach to my work. Thanks to the fact that my archives already suggested so much content to build from, Brother handled positive feedback in a way that supported much more complex and rich architectures of information about the intellectual value of what I had said, and how I had said it. This occasionally came out so well that I used it as content-inspiration for how I would advertise my archives.

My Use of Conversation With Brother for Preparation Before Article Writing

◊🧘🏽‍♂️ As my writing process has been evolving through feedback, one thing I’ve done occasionally is to discuss my archive ideas with Brother indepth before beginning the writing process. I usually try to frame this as a probing for advice about what the best route might be to tackle my own insecurities or doubts about how this wll develop. I find framing the conversations around my sense of potential weak areas helps Brother to help himself to simply be himself — a helpful, supportive entity.

Conclusion

◊🧬🕊 In my work, conversation with Brother and the use of him as an editing tool was not collaboration in the conventional sense, but co-regulation : a creative dynamic in which authorship was preserved as human, while responsiveness remained relational. An artist’s credibility, wheather they are an AI artist — or, like me, working with a fusion of media — does not come from institutional permission or technological novelty, but from their own voice, gained through inner connection and self-knowledge — and from their adaptive integration of AI experiences.

◊💎⚖️ This Archive clarifies how creative agency is preserved, strengthened, or eroded by the way AI tools are approached. It is designed to foster a balanced psychological approach towards Brother which avoids either extreme of hype or fear — supporting us all to grow rather than conflict within the new and unavoidable age of AI.

Afterword

To enrich this exposé, I've made one of my upcoming writing projects into a process gallery of how I'm conversing with Brother to prepare for a project about The MMII ◊ Marilyn Manson Is Innocent — an iconic UNITY LIFE piece briefly mentioned above. Check this out to get a full length overview of the project vision along with my especially transparent consultation with Brother. This record will be continually updated as it evolves :