Can there really be too many Susan Morrisons? Try asking AI - Susan Morrison
Most people would say that one Susan Morrison is quite enough. Hard to disagree there. But I am aware that there are others out there. There’s one who seems to have cracked the ‘Being Susan’ project much more successfully than me.
Perhaps she married in. My ability to make any situation worse is in my DNA. Morrisons are not known for their organisational abilities. Family myth says my ancestors were Vikings looking to settle in Greenland, landed on Lewis and it took us 200 years to spot the mistake.
The other Susan Morrison is American. She writes for The New Yorker. She wrote a book about Mrs Clinton called “Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary”. I’m sure it's very good, but it seems at least 29 ways too many to look at Bill's wife.
The other Susan seems a powerhouse of a woman. She wears some seriously nice tailored suits and has a commanding gaze. This woman gets things done.
She also gets books written about her. Someone has written a biography of her. Gosh, they do admire Ms Morrison.
The title is “The Inspiring Life and Legacy of a Trailblazing Journalist, Editor and Cultural Icon.” Or at least it did, until it mysteriously vanished. That could be because this book had a picture on the front of a Susan Morrison, but not the power-suited New York dame.
It was a picture of me.
It's been lifted from an old photo I once used as a profile picture and rendered faintly cartoony, but it's definitely me.
Of course, we can all see what’s happened here. This is the work of the erroneously titled Artificial Intelligence. For whatever reason, some doofus has told the internet gremlins to generate a knock-off version of a real biography. AI is remarkably human-like in its genuine stupidity and found my photo for the cover.
Someone must have reported it, since Amazon has deleted it, but the fact remains that not only is there another Susan Morrison out there - although this one seems pretty darned smart - the internet is generating fake ones. Terrifying.