AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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The Skypug; Hungry Boats; Mid wonka; Burderous bread cat; Holy Cheesarenda; Moth fairy; A magicial slice; Fall wearing monster; The Godfish

Halloween costumes by tiny neural net

I've recently been experimenting with one of my favorite old-school neural networks, a tiny program that runs on my laptop and knows only about the data I give it. Without internet training, char-rnn doesn't have outside references to draw on (for better or for worse) but
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

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
Drawing prompts for Botober - follow link to see full alt text!

Botober 2024

Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October! Longtime AI Weirdness readers may recognize some of these. That's because this is a throwback list, all the way back to the times of very tiny language models. These
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