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A collection of mostly chipmunks, one acorn, and two lumpy froglike things

How to disappear a platypus

By Janelle Shane On August 04, 2022 - 3 min read

I was testing DALL-E 2 to see if it would be subject to some common incorrect assumptions about the sizes of things. For example if you asked people what size a kiwi bird is, they tend to assume it's a smallish bird, maybe around the size of a

Three guinea pig horse toys, stocky with guinea pig faces and guinea pig markings.

New AI-generated horsies

By Janelle Shane On July 22, 2022 - 2 min read

Recently I've been experimenting with DALL-E 2, one of the models that uses CLIP to generate images from my text descriptions. It was trained on internet text and images, so there's a lot it can do, and a lot of ways it can remix the stuff

Teacups with mostly nonsensical messages written in, or sometimes on, the leaves.

Reading tea leaves

By Janelle Shane On July 01, 2022 - 5 min read

DALL-E (and other text-to-image generators) will often add text to their images even when you don't ask for any. Ask for a picture of a Halifax Pier [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-terror-of-the-sea/] and it could end up covered in messy writing, variously legible versions of "Halifax"

A set of 8 somewhate misshapen eggs with colorful but confusing patterns and bands.

AI-generated easter eggs

By Janelle Shane On April 14, 2022 - 3 min read

How would AI decorate an easter egg? I've tried this before by training an image-generating model exclusively on pictures of easter eggs I decorated (they came out plain, if a bit wobbly [https://www.aiweirdness.com/nonexistent-easter-eggs-20-04-09/]). I decided to see what I would get using a model

A wooden structure on stilts, with a slatted railing and huge crossbeams

Remember those wooden playgrounds? AI doesn't.

By Janelle Shane On January 07, 2022 - 4 min read

I remember when my hometown got one of these giant wooden playgrounds. It must have been in the early 90s and a kid could get lost for hours in there. Or injured or full of splinters or chromated copper arsenate I guess, which is why you don't see

A screenshot of the AI Weirdness 2021 Advent Calendar, with one of the doors highlighted

An AI advent calendar

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2021 - 2 min read

When I was a kid I looked forward to opening advent calendar doors in December, although the pictures behind the doors were pretty forgettable. A bell. A snowflake. If you were lucky, a squirrel. So I thought I'd see if I can generate something a bit more interesting,

A vivid green and red landscape with wobbly jelly-like bushes.

Playing with Pixels

By Janelle Shane On November 19, 2021 - 4 min read

Here's "Ice Cream Planet Swirl", as generated by Pixray. Full prompt: Ice Cream Planet Swirl #8bit #pixelart. Colors are chocolate, minty green, and cream.Pixray uses CLIP, which OpenAI trained on a bunch of internet photos and associated text. CLIP acts as a judge, telling Pixray

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

By Janelle Shane On October 08, 2021 - 3 min read

What do you get if you instruct an AI to turn a house into the most haunted house in the world? What if you ask it for the LEAST haunted house? How does an AI know what "haunted" looks like, anyways? I did some experiments with CLIP+VQGAN

Several lumps of olden cake covered with generous dollops of creamy frosting.

Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

By Janelle Shane On October 01, 2021 - 4 min read

There's this baking competition I really like, and one of the elements in every show is what they call the Technical Challenge. In the Technical Challenge, Great British Bakeoff contestants have to bake something they may never have seen before, based solely on a brief description and a

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.

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How to disappear a platypus

New AI-generated horsies

Reading tea leaves

AI-generated easter eggs

Remember those wooden playgrounds? AI doesn't.

An AI advent calendar

Playing with Pixels

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

AI is based on math so it is correct

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