AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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Four surreal generated valentine cards with dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and leaping donkeys

Roses are red

I had so much fun getting GPT-3 to generate simple one-line Valentine's Day cards last year that this year I decided to see if I could generate cards with more complicated messages. I focused on the classic "roses are red, violets are blue" rhyme, figuring that
Cartoons of socks: One has violins and prawns, another has robots posing with butter

Novelty Socks by AI

I like a fun sock. The more random the design, the better. What kinds of novelty sock ideas would we get if we used AI as a creativity aid? It turns out they aren't too novel unless the AI is glitchy. I collected 14 examples of socks I
Four very strange Victorian-esque Christmas cards, with leaping artichokes, dancing seahorses, and sledding poops.

Victorian Holiday cards by AI

I'll admit I don't understand Victorian holiday cards - why would Christmas be best illustrated by a pipe-smoking kangaroo in a dressing gown painting a portrait of a cigar-smoking stork? Or what would lead someone to give their loved ones a card with a crowd of
The word "fart" written 251 times, rated as 99.98% fake by the GPT2 detector

Apparently I am a robot

As AI-generated text is getting better, it's getting easier to pass it off as human-written. That's not to say it's as good as human-written. Its goal is to sound correct rather than be correct, so it has a well-known tendency to confidently make stuff
Three advent calendars with illegible numbers and inscrutable illustrations

AI Advent Calendar 2022

Please enjoy this advent calendar, generated and illustrated with the help of three machine learning models (GPT-3, DALL-E, and Midjourney) Full door descriptions 1. Eggnog as far as the eye could see 2. The fantastical lion of Mor-Bollox 3. Saturated Red Turkeys. 4. Blue reindeer (they're bouncing) 5.
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