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Very normal grocery stores

By Janelle Shane On September 23, 2021 - 2 min read

I was reminded recently [https://twitter.com/HardSciFiMovies/status/1438945429878620163] that US grocery stores often have strange names. I grew up shopping at Big Bear and Giant Eagle and thought it was very normal for grocery stores to be named after megafauna. Given a list of real but strange grocery

Botober 2021: plz draw the AI a sluggalope

By Janelle Shane On September 12, 2021 - 4 min read

One of my favorite things ever is when AI instructs people to do silly creative things, and the humans gamely play along. For a couple [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ainktober-a-neural-net-creates-drawing-19-09-26/] of Octobers [https://www.aiweirdness.com/628160900506025984/] now I've used various AI models to generate daily #botober drawing

AI is based on math so it is correct

By Janelle Shane On September 03, 2021 - 3 min read

Since OpenAI released CLIP, trained on internet pictures and their nearby text, people have been using it to generate images. In all these methods - CLIP+Dall-E [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-drawings-of-dall-e/], CLIP+BigGAN [https://www.aiweirdness.com/searching-for-bernie/], CLIP+FFT [https://www.aiweirdness.com/lucid-deep-dreaming], CLIP+VQGAN [https://www.

It looks like a log of rice that's been rolled lightly in rainbow sequins.

In search of a unicorn cake

By Janelle Shane On August 27, 2021 - 4 min read

I've generated a lot of terrible unicorn cakes by this point. Last time I experimented with generating cakes [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-cake-fails/], using CLIP's internet training to guide a couple of image generating methods. Around the time I posted my experiments, RiversHaveWings, who developed one

The cake is covered in a sagging marshmallowy coating that might once have had sleek robotic curves.

AI cake fails

By Janelle Shane On August 18, 2021 - 5 min read

AI cake fails are unlike any cake fails I've seen before. What do you get when your cake is being generated by something that's seen lots of pictures labeled "cake" but has never had a cake or experienced physics? CLIP+VQGAN are two algorithms

Very normal grocery stores

Botober 2021: plz draw the AI a sluggalope

AI is based on math so it is correct

In search of a unicorn cake

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