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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A retro-futurism/synthwave skyline backdrop with warm neon colors. In the foreground, evoke the vibe of various music artists and genres discussed in the blog post: Paula Abdul, Bing Crosby, The Who, Flock of Seagulls, Nirvana, Metallica, The Clash, Marilyn Manson, and Skinny Puppy. The overall aesthetic should have gothic undertones, featuring elements like dark clothing, mysterious shadows, and a slightly eerie atmosphere to capture the eclectic and diverse music tastes described. Image generated by DALL-E

Just the beer light to guide us

I recently realized that I like a lot of different types of music. Okay, yes, if you know me, you know that’s not a grand discovery. But. What I mean is that, I like — have always liked — contradictory and conflicting styles of music. Again, perhaps not a shocking revelation. What I really mean […]

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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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Create a 16:9 widescreen image for the novel 'Are You Awake', accurately depicting the main characters in the virtual world of DreamSpace. Lorelei Hawthorne, the protagonist, is a senior software engineer with a contemplative expression and short hair, reflecting her focused and pragmatic nature. She is shown in a state of inner conflict, torn between her work responsibilities and her curiosity about the virtual world. Beside her, Liz Bennet, a young femme lesbian developer with long hair and a stylish attire, is portrayed with a longing expression, indicative of her desire for a relationship with Lorelei. Include representations of AI characters, especially Nova, to symbolize Lorelei's engagement with DreamSpace. The setting is a surreal technofantasy landscape, embodying the novel's themes of technology, magic, and romance. The image should capture the emotional dynamics and potential romantic tension between Lorelei and Liz, set against the backdrop of the novel's fantastical world.

Ma.tt sent me

Well, not actually. But he did post this, and I figured, since I drafted and then scrapped a long Thread about where I ended December with regards to the novel I am writing, I figured this would be a good excuse to write a blog about it instead. So, where am I? I didn’t hit […]

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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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ChatGPT + DALL-E, finally

ChatGPT + DALL-E, finally

My very first post in this series tried to see what I could do by combining the language processing of ChatGPT to generate prompts for DALL-E (complete with quirky keywords that make sense to robots (I guess) but not humans). The disappointing answer at the time was that ChatGPT didn’t know about DALL-E, and therefore […]

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ChatGPT: I will get back to you…

Since OpenAI introduced Bing Search as a beta feature in GPT-4, a thing I’ve noticed recently is ChatGPT saying things like “I will get back to you with that information.” Excuse me, what? If you’ve used ChatGPT and understand a bit about how it works, you would understand the problem here. There is no context […]

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