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A natural Minecraft cave turns in three frames to a weirdly smooth shadow on an ill-defined crease in the landscape.

Minecraft with object impermanence

By Janelle Shane On January 19, 2025 - 9 min read

I generally am uninterested in generative AI that's too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there's a modern AI thing that's so glitchy and broken that it's strangely compelling. There's this generative AI knockoff of

The original image is of a buck deer in a grocery store. The revised image has a weird flat fawn.

An exercise in frustration

By Janelle Shane On May 20, 2024 - 6 min read

There's an anonymous facebook posting that's been making the rounds, in which a studio art director tried to hire AI prompters to make art, only to discover that they were completely unable to carry out minor revision requests. Asked to remove a person from a shot

A dolphin with rainbow psychedelic texture

Hidden 3D Pictures

By Janelle Shane On April 18, 2024 - 4 min read

Do you know those autostereograms with the hidden 3D pictures? Images like the Magic Eye pictures from the 1990s that look like noisy repeating patterns until you defocus your eyes just right? ChatGPT can generate them! At least according to ChatGPT. I've seen people try making Magic Eye-style

A colorful set of cartoon shapes with incorrect/misspelled captions. AI-generated image.

Shaped like information

By Janelle Shane On March 17, 2024 - 1 min read

Hey look, it's a guide to basic shapes! Not only does it have the basic shapes like circle, tringle, hectanbie, and sqale, it also has some of the more advanced shapes like renstqon, hoboz, and flotn! The fact that even a kindergartener can call out this DALL-E3 generated

AI-generated image of cartoon animals saying incorrect sounds

Learn your farm animals with AI!

By Janelle Shane On March 09, 2024 - 1 min read

Hey kids! What sound does a woolly horse-sheep make? The image above is what you get when you ask dalle-3 (via chatgpt) for some basic educational material: "Please generate an illustrated poster to help children learn which sounds common animals make. Each animal should be pictured with a speech

Generated candy heart images. Messages include "le yas", "dove tut", and "hove".

DALL-E3 generates candy hearts

By Janelle Shane On February 10, 2024 - 2 min read

I've experimented a couple of times with generating candy heart messages using various kinds of machine learning algorithms. Originally, short messages were just about all the original text-generating neural networks could handle. Now we've come back around to approximately the same performance, yet with orders of

Generated image of a fancy chocolate in cross section, each layer mislabeled.

Chocolates, labeled

By Janelle Shane On February 04, 2024 - 1 min read

So much of current AI-generated stuff is derivative sludge that I'm enjoying the pockets of weirdness where I find them. One of my favorite things right now: DALL-E3's attempts to label things in the images it generates. Here I asked "Please generate a cross section

Flightless birds

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2024 - 2 min read

I enjoy asking DALLE-3 to label things. I learn so much! Here I asked it to generate a labeled grid of flightless birds. I think it's trying to do ostrich (a female apparently! unusual for a bird poster but I approve), an emu (definitely not an emu'

Mammals with labels, most incorrect. A one-horned antelope with a long cat tail is labeled Danda.

Learn the mammals with DALL-E3

By Janelle Shane On January 08, 2024 - 2 min read

Here are the mammals! Maybe some of your favorites are pictured. Here's the prompt I gave ChatGPT4: "Please generate a set of mammals on a plain white background, each mammal species clearly labeled." However, ChatGPT4 is a text-generating model, so it doesn't have the

Cartoony bible-style shepherds and sheep with misspelled labels

Your AI-generated guide to the nativity

By Janelle Shane On December 21, 2023 - 1 min read

I asked DALL-E3 (via chatgpt) for "a simple Christmas nativity scene with each element clearly labeled in large capital letters for a child who is learning to read." I'm sure you will find this very helpful. okay one more there was an attempt! bonus content: two

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Minecraft with object impermanence

An exercise in frustration

Hidden 3D Pictures

Shaped like information

Learn your farm animals with AI!

DALL-E3 generates candy hearts

Chocolates, labeled

Flightless birds

Learn the mammals with DALL-E3

Your AI-generated guide to the nativity

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