Charles Wilke

A fully multimodal and invisible internet that's capable of manifesting elements in our dimensional space. An entirely mixed reality, essentially. Minimal deference difference to virtual versus tangible.

A brilliantly individualized technological protopia, with personalized Gen-AI instances each dutifully tagging along as our super powered partners.

Oh, I'm always noodling...

These are all living documents, and I re-read them often too. I tweak and punctuate ideas all the time.

I might. But all of the views expressed on this website are mine and mine alone. I don't speak for any company. My services are not sponsored or endorsed by my current employer, whichever that might be when you're reading this.

• Co-Intelligence -by- Ethan Mollick
• The Age of Invisible Machines -by- Robb Wilson
• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You -by- Janelle Shane
• The Machine Stops -by- E. M. Forster
• Life 3.0 -by- Max Tegmark
• Dawn of the New Everything -by- Jaron Lanier
• Amusing Ourselves to Death -by- Neil Postman

GenAI's encroachment on the creative process has not been comfortable.

I see the ire and desire to be compensated for our creativity extracted as training data. I believe in the data dignity model proposed by Jaron Lanier. If our creative contributions are accessed when generating an output, we deserve payment.

We should be incentivized to contribute in a way that directly benefits others.

Charles Wilke's website, Exploring L.AI.BOR, focuses on co-creation with Generative AI. It highlights unique AI-generated content and Wilke's exploration of the creative process in collaboration with AI tools.

The site also features various writings, imagery generated with AI, and links to Wilke's Substack for deeper dives into these topics. Wilke's work reflects an artistic blend of AI and human creativity, aiming to examine new forms of expression.

Charles Wilke's approach places emphasis on storytelling, meaningful experiences, and the human element in business, aligning with the ethos of creating impactful narratives through technology.

For Text: I use ChatGPT Plus and Claude - running whichever latest frontier model.

For Images: I use DALL-E 3 and Leonardo.ai's Phoenix foundational model for image generation.

At the end of each piece, I include the conversation transcript.

I also highlight AI-generated passages with bold and italic that remain intact after my edit.

It's never really the same thing twice.

I often start with a draft, something tangible, if not a little disjointed. Then I'll load that draft as context into a conversation with the latest, greatest AI chat interface. Then I bounce around in discussion over the core nugget in my draft.

Often, I'll request a revised draft after that conversation. From there I edit, tweak, adjust, add imagery and upload.

Nothing appears here that I haven't specifically intended to be seen. This includes all opinions and choice in subject matter.

I also highlight AI generated passages with bold and italic that remain intact after my edit. And all imagery presented on this site is generated by me.

I am editor in chief with all things that appear on this site. I just happen to pay ChatGPT and Claude 20 bucks a month to be my writing partners.

I've heard it said that the internet will soon be awash in B+ content thanks to Gen AI. So these tools allow everyone to create content that anyone would consider good enough. But there will always be a huge chasm between good and great - meaningless and meaningful - inert and provocative.

That's where artistry can be found - attempting to bridge those gaps.

Yep, I think we just agreed then shook hands.