As part of my year-long #StillStanding project, I post an average image of the spherical video recordings on Mastodon daily. These videos have black padding outside the fisheye-like images, and this padding also appears in the average image. It is possible to manually remove the black parts in some image editing software (of which open-source GIMP is my current favorite). However, as I recently started exploring ChatGPT for research, I decided to ask for help.

As part of my #StillStanding project I need to handle a lot of video files on a daily basis. Today, I wanted to check the duration and pixel dimensions of a bunch of files in different folders. As always, I turned to FFmpeg, or more specifically FFprobe, for help. However, figuring out all the details of how to get out the right information is tricky. So I decided to ask ChatGPT for help.

I’m sitting in my office, listening to the noisy ventilation system that inspired my AMBIENT project. Here is a short sample: At the moment, I am primarily focusing on completing my book Still Standing. However, as part of my year-long #StillStanding project, I have also started thinking about the sounds found in indoor environments. Asking ChatGPT for help I have yet to begin a proper literature review on ventilation noise, but as a start, I asked ChatGPT for help.

There has been much discussion about ChatGPT recently, a chat robot that can write meaningful answers to questions. I haven’t had time to test it out properly, and it was unavailable when I wanted to check it today. Instead, I have played around with YouWrite, a service that can write text based on limited input. I thought it would be interesting to ask it to write about something I know well, so I asked it to write a text based on an abbreviated version of the abstract of my new book: