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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Artificial intelligence or 'AI', for many of us, is the stuff of science fiction books and movies. For our children and grandchildren, it is a current reality.
Browsing social media I had joined a group called ‘Beginners Knitting’, it’s a large group of people made up of mainly US and UK knitting enthusiasts and is exactly as you would expect. People asking lots of questions about getting started with knitting and showing pictures of mistakes and WIPS they are looking for feedback on.
One member then posted that free patterns were now easy to find as they had asked ‘ChatGPT’ and had got a simple kntting pattern, that to them as a beginner seemed to be working very well...
The Local Yarn: Weaving Community and Craft Together
Running a creative small business could be seen at its base, as an act of defiance. It rarely starts with this, but I think all small business owners eventually recognise this feeling. Any arts and craft retail business of course starts with idealism. Thoughts of independence and carving out ‘spaces’ to allow creativity to blossom. Money isn’t the end goal (of course it is), because the money will come as a by-product of ‘building community’ (it’s not and it doesn’t)
