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A painting of stone columns, redwood treetops, and humanoid stone pillars

My favorite nonexistent painter

By Janelle Shane On August 06, 2021 - 3 min read

People have noted [https://twitter.com/moultano/status/1418256870259580934?s=20] that when using giant internet-trained AIs like CLIP+VQGAN to generate images, you get much nicer-looking images if you include an artist byline. Here's "Internet Infrastructure" And here's "Internet Infrastructure by J*

An AI-generated room with a confusing, sprawling piece of furniture in it.

Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?

By Janelle Shane On July 23, 2021 - 3 min read

Like other ambiguous [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-art-of-asking-nicely/] image-generation [https://www.aiweirdness.com/why-is-generated-furniture-so-cursed/] prompts [https://www.aiweirdness.com/internet-grab-bag/], asking for "a gothic wardrobe" had the AI hedging its bets. In CLIP+VQGAN's internet training, those words might go with pictures of clothes in styles

Two chairs with seats of thick knotted pieces of wood and backs like carved pillars.

Generated furniture: cursed, but beautiful

By Janelle Shane On July 16, 2021 - 4 min read

Beetle kill pine is a popular wood in Colorado, salvaged from trees killed by pine bark beetles. While the dead trees stand before harvesting, a fungus colonizes them, giving the wood interesting blue-grey streaks called spalting. It's a really pretty wood. But AI apparently thinks "a chair

The art of asking nicely

By Janelle Shane On July 02, 2021 - 5 min read

There are upsides to working with a neural net that trained on a huge collection of internet images and text. One is that, instead of ominous grey geometric blobs [https://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways] when it doesn't understand your prompt (there is a free interactive demo of

AI doesn't understand scale

By Janelle Shane On June 24, 2021 - 4 min read

One of my favorite ways to mess around with text-generating AI is to see what it does with new games that didn't exist on the internet back when its training data was collected. OpenAI's GPT-3 models were trained with data that cut off in late 2019

Hurricanes and how they are pronounced

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2021 - 2 min read

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its planned hurricane names years in advance, and includes a pronunciation guide [https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/aboutnames_pronounce_atlc.pdf] for each name. An excerpt from NOAA's 2026 Atlantic Basin Storm Name Pronunciations: > Arthur AR-thur Bertha BUR-thuh

Fun facts about fun guys

By Janelle Shane On June 04, 2021 - 3 min read

The neural net GPT-3 has seen a lot of dating profiles during its internet training. But has it seen the Bachelorette contestant variety of astonishingly pedestrian dating profile?

AI-generated food trucks

By Janelle Shane On May 21, 2021 - 3 min read

One way to generate buzz for your new food truck: a unique theme or gimmick. But with new food trucks popping up everywhere, how can you ensure that your idea is creative enough? Lindsay Diamond [https://neurdy.com/] suggested a possible neural net solution. So as a demonstration, I wrote

Botsplaining

By Janelle Shane On May 14, 2021 - 5 min read

When I used GPT-3 to generate inscrutable new Star Wars jokes, Lisa Wong asked [https://twitter.com/AllKindsOfWong/status/1390707212004122628?s=20], “Can the A.I also generate the condescending explanation as to why the joke is funny and how I just don’t have a sense of humor? That

AI writes Star Wars jokes

By Janelle Shane On May 07, 2021 - 3 min read

One of my friends sent me some silly Star Wars jokes this week (“Where did Luke get his cybernetic hand? The second hand store.”) and on impulse I decided to see how AI would do at generating more. I decided to use GPT-3, which I knew had surely seen Star

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My favorite nonexistent painter

Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?

Generated furniture: cursed, but beautiful

The art of asking nicely

AI doesn't understand scale

Hurricanes and how they are pronounced

Fun facts about fun guys

AI-generated food trucks

Botsplaining

AI writes Star Wars jokes

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