20 July 2026
Chat is the least interesting thing AI does
If you’ve only ever chatted with AI, you’ve seen the least useful tenth of it. The real trick: stop asking it questions and start handing it things.
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Notes on practical AI
for the arts.
20 July 2026
Help! I can’t tell my Claude from my Codex
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Codex — a plain-English map of the confusing names, and honest advice on which one your organisation actually needs.
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20 July 2026
Ten unglamorous jobs AI can take off your plate this week
No think-pieces, just ten tedious jobs — minutes, alt text, rotas, hostile spreadsheets — that AI does well enough today to hand back real hours.
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20 July 2026
What AI is genuinely bad at (and why that’s good news for the arts)
It has no taste, doesn’t know when it’s wrong, and can’t be in the room. An honest list of AI’s failures — which reads like a job description for the arts.
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20 July 2026
AI won’t take your job. It will change your Tuesday.
Jobs aren’t taken like chess pieces; they erode task by task. What AI actually does to an arts administrator’s week — and how to guard the parts that need you.
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20 July 2026
What happens to what I type into ChatGPT?
Where your words go, who can see them, and whether they feed the machine — five rules of thumb that survive every policy change.
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20 July 2026
Will AI make our marketing sound like everyone else’s?
Used lazily, AI converges on ‘vibrant’, ‘unforgettable’ and nobody’s voice. How to keep sounding like yourselves — and why AI might even help.
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20 July 2026
AI and the funding application
Is it allowed? Does it work? Is it right? Three honest answers about AI and grant-writing, and the line between reshaping your thinking and faking it.
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20 July 2026
How to write an AI policy your artists won’t hate
Most AI policies answer the wrong question at great length. Yours can be one honest page — here are the six headings, and how to write them together.
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20 July 2026
Why artists are angry about AI — and why they’re right to be
The anger about AI in the arts isn’t a failure to keep up — it’s a rational response to how these tools were built. What the fury is really about, and what to do with it.
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