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238 posts in “geek of technology”

Community + Code

Community + Code

Sé Reed took this picture of my water bottle at PressConf. “That’s epic,” she said. I agree. I assume she saw in it the same thing I did when I found it — ourselves. The funny thing is, despite this sentiment being prevalent amonst those of us that have been in the WordPress community for […]

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The Lovecraft Test, Gemini

The Lovecraft Test, Gemini

I’ve been sitting on this one for longer than I should have (and then, obviously, forgetting entirely about it). After putting DeepSeek through the ropes for my Lovecraft test, I decided to try Google’s Gemini. I haven’t used Gemini much, although I have used NotebookLLM which is based on Gemini, and I think it generally […]

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A WordPresser goes to DrupalCon

A WordPresser goes to DrupalCon

I’ll be going to my first DrupalCon next week. I can’t say that I’ve always wanted to go to DrupalCon, but I’ve certainly been curious about it since joining Pantheon because it’s always been such a huge part of Pantheon’s ecosystem and we’re always a big sponsor. And over the last few months, between #WPDrama […]

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The life of a developer

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You have a broad plan. Say, you want to move your website to a new host. I’ve been running this site (which is a WordPress multisite that also includes my partner’s blog, the blog we originally created to share pictures of our kids, a personal portflolio-type site […]

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A Lovecraftian coastal scene under a gibbous moon, depicting Alden Marsh and Thalassa standing on the edge of crumbling cliffs overlooking a raging abyss. Thalassa, a mysterious sea creature draped in seafoam and kelp, has bioluminescent veins visible beneath her translucent skin and long, ink-black hair flowing like water. Alden, a scholarly man, holds her webbed hand as the villagers, pale and slit-eyed, approach with hooks and chains. Below, the ocean churns into a maelstrom, and a colossal shadow stirs beneath the waves. The sky is filled with storm clouds and eerie, phosphorescent light from the sunken ziggurat in the depths.

The Lovecraft Test, DeepSeek Edition

The stupidly big news in LLMs right now is that DeepSeek, a LLM built by a small Chinese team that was released a couple weeks ago, performs as well as, if not better than larger, more sophisticated (at least in terms of the dollars and hardware thrown at it) models by OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude) […]

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A dramatic cinematic scene inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's style, set on a stormy cliffside under a pale, glowing moon. A humanoid figure, ethereal and alien, with shimmering fish-scale-like attire and silver hair with tendrils, stands at the edge of a cliff overlooking a tumultuous ocean. The waves crash violently against jagged rocks, and enormous, shadowy, incomprehensible forms rise from the sea, illuminated faintly by eerie green lights. The sky is filled with dark storm clouds and lightning streaks, creating a haunting, otherworldly atmosphere. The perspective is cinematic, with the figure in the foreground gazing out at the titanic, alien shapes in the distance. The color palette is dark, with shades of green, black, and silver dominating. This image is presented in a wide 16:9 format, as if it were a still from a dramatic horror film.

The H.P. Lovecraft Test, round 3

I’ve run this test twice already and I figured it was probably about time to try it again. If you’ve been reading my AI posts (which is all I post anymore), you may remember past incarnations of what I like to call The Lovecraft Test. I ran it very early on with ChatGPT when it […]

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Aging an AI-generated character

Aging an AI-generated character

Historically, prompting ChatGPT (or DALL-E through ChatGPT) for variations or subtle modifications of a single image results in a sort of image degeneration. Not only does the image not get reproduced with the slight variations, but it gets further and further away from what you originally requested. This is something that has been noted on […]

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Rick Astley Ten Ways

Rick Astley Ten Ways

Lately, I’ve been playing a lot with Suno. Suno is an AI that makes music based on your prompts. It’s actually pretty good at it, too. It lacks the ability to edit songs, and the songs it creates will always be based on some formulaic foundation, but so much of popular music is that it […]

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DALL-E prompt: Create a surreal and glitchy scene that visually represents the concept of an AI being disrupted by a simple, repetitive input of 'a a a a'. The image should feature a digital landscape dominated by a large, central figure symbolizing the AI, with its surface breaking apart or distorting intensely in areas where the glitch is most concentrated. Surround this figure with streams of binary code and digital elements that suddenly scatter or warp into chaotic patterns around the 'a a a a' input, which appears prominently in the scene as glowing, floating characters that emit a disruptive energy. The environment should embody a stark contrast between the orderly flow of digital information and the sudden, disordered, and colorful glitch effects caused by the repetitive input. Include visual cues like broken pixels, color aberrations, and erratic digital noise to emphasize the glitchy and unpredictable nature of the bug, showcasing the AI's struggle to process the input logically. This portrayal should vividly convey the idea of an AI encountering a bug that leads to bizarre and unexpected outputs, highlighting the theme of technology behaving in unpredictable ways.

File under: AIs doing Weird AI Shit

Today, a friend of mine who’s largely the person I talk about weird AI shit with mentioned this: “my ai guy” has mentioned several times that sending a bunch of “a a a a” to chatgpt can sometimes make it output training data.. I’m always game to try new weird shit with AI chatbots. This […]

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An imaginative depiction of various creative uses of AI for music generation, set against a backdrop of diverse role-playing scenarios. The scene includes a representation of AI in the center, surrounded by visual metaphors for different playlists it generated for various settings: a Planescape campaign in one corner, a Call of Cthulhu one-shot in another, and a trendy bar in San Francisco. Each area is visually distinct, capturing the unique atmosphere of each setting. Planescape features angels and devils in a surreal cityscape, Call of Cthulhu shows eerie, Lovecraftian elements, and the bar scene is modern and lively. Musical notes and symbols are scattered throughout the image, symbolizing the AI's role in creating diverse playlists for these different narratives.

How good is ChatGPT at making mixtapes?

I’ve previously experimented with trying to get ChatGPT to suggest songs to build a soundtrack for my D&D campaign when it ventured into the territory of Planescape. Planescape is weird. It’s a multiverse-based setting where the intensity of beliefs can actually change the geography of the world. As such, there are the obvious ideological wars […]

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