Brian Eno
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I used to notice that after a day of painting, the water that I was dipping my brush into, which was, of course, a mixture of all the colors I'd touched that day, was always the same color.
Actually, I called it Mung, M-U-N-G-E.
Mung is sort of purpley-browny, horrible color, basically.
And whenever I've tried creating things on ChatGPT, I haven't done that much of it, actually, but...
I work very hard to get my prompts right and to filter what I'm saying and trying to edge it into something interesting.
But the color of Munch covers all of it.
It's so over-digested.
And
Of course, it's quoting things, it's using things on the basis of how frequently they have appeared.
I don't know whether you've ever tried making anything, let's say, artistic using ChatGPT or any of the other programs.
It has a very interesting progression when you're doing it.
The first thing you make, you think, bloody hell, that's pretty amazing.
And then after half an hour or so, you think, I'm so bored.
And I remember that thing that Samuel Johnson said about something.
I can't remember what it was about now, but he said, it's a little bit like watching a dog walk on its hind legs.
You're not interested in how it walks, but just that it can.
You know, you're sort of impressed by the fact that it can do something that is really quite like a human being.
But then you find out that it's like a quite dull human being.
And it kind of doesn't get more exciting unless you can trick it into some sort of aberration, which is what I've been trying to do.
Yeah.
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