Janelle Shane

An AI-generated room with a confusing, sprawling piece of furniture in it.

Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?

By Janelle Shane On July 23, 2021 - 3 min read

Like other ambiguous [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-art-of-asking-nicely/] image-generation [https://www.aiweirdness.com/why-is-generated-furniture-so-cursed/] prompts [https://www.aiweirdness.com/internet-grab-bag/], asking for "a gothic wardrobe" had the AI hedging its bets. In CLIP+VQGAN's internet training, those words might go with pictures of clothes in styles

Two chairs with seats of thick knotted pieces of wood and backs like carved pillars.

Generated furniture: cursed, but beautiful

By Janelle Shane On July 16, 2021 - 4 min read

Beetle kill pine is a popular wood in Colorado, salvaged from trees killed by pine bark beetles. While the dead trees stand before harvesting, a fungus colonizes them, giving the wood interesting blue-grey streaks called spalting. It's a really pretty wood. But AI apparently thinks "a chair

Generating images from an internet grab bag

By Janelle Shane On July 09, 2021 - 2 min read

Still amazed by this: Here's CLIP+VQGAN [https://aiweirdness.com/post/655607559221379072/the-art-of-asking-nicely] (trained on internet photos and their accompanying text), prompted two different ways: "A car driving down a desert road in monument valley" A car driving down a desert road in monument valley"

The art of asking nicely

By Janelle Shane On July 02, 2021 - 5 min read

There are upsides to working with a neural net that trained on a huge collection of internet images and text. One is that, instead of ominous grey geometric blobs [https://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways] when it doesn't understand your prompt (there is a free interactive demo of

New AI short story! The Skeleton Crew

By Janelle Shane On June 26, 2021 - 2 min read

illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo> "There was so much she might not hear, being located so far from her body, relying on cheap headphones. It had never mattered before." I have a new story out in Slate Future Tense! The Skeleton Crew [https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/

Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?

Generated furniture: cursed, but beautiful

Generating images from an internet grab bag

The art of asking nicely

New AI short story! The Skeleton Crew

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