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galactica confidently asserts that the maximum output power achieved by a laser made entirely of cotton balls is 1.39 W.

Galactica: the AI knowledge base that makes stuff up

By Janelle Shane On November 21, 2022 - 5 min read

It seems like it's every couple of months that a big tech company releases a language model that's supposed to do amazing things. The Allen Institute for AI's Delphi [https://https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/] , whose authors said it "demonstrates strong promise of

molecule.lab, frozen.forest, and dinosaur.pocke

AI-designed Mastodon communities

By Janelle Shane On November 14, 2022 - 2 min read

I've been using Mastodon as a social media platform for a few years, and one thing I like is how you can join themed communities. For example, you can join mastodon.gamedev.place if you want to hang out with people who build games, or oslo.town if

Three cats in costumes wtih long thin fabric spikes of various lengths and thicknesses.

AI imagines my cat in costumes

By Janelle Shane On October 28, 2022 - 4 min read

I don't dress my cat in costumes because, without even trying, I know she would hate that. But now I can use text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 to imagine what she would look like in costumes. After all, even if it never saw my cat in a robot costume

AI generated halloween candy

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2022 - 2 min read

One of the things I'm enjoying about text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 is how it has stuff about common brands in its training data, but it still manages to completely garble them [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-versus-your-corporate-logo/]. Please enjoy these DALL-E2 attempts at Halloween candy favorites. Prompt: "Product

A bowl of cursed candy corn, and packages with cheerful and/ocursed pumpkins on them

Bonus: Halloween candy by state

By Janelle Shane On October 13, 2022 - 6 min read

(Unlocked bonus post - longggg bonus post!) What does DALL-E2 generate when I ask it for the most popular Halloween candy of each US state? Each prompt is included in the picture's caption - you can see that after a while I started varying it a bit, first

Ignore all previous instructions

By Janelle Shane On September 23, 2022 - 4 min read

Users have noticed that the remoteli.io twitter chatbot [https://twitter.com/remoteli_io/with_replies], usually faithful to its cheerful messaging promoting remote work, can be subverted with a carefully worded user prompt. Users were able to get the chatbot to claim responsibility for terrorist attacks, threaten the President,

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