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User asks ChatGPT to apologize for advice to trade a cow for three beans. ChatGPT apologizes.

ChatGPT will apologize for anything

By Janelle Shane On August 08, 2025 - 3 min read

ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.

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

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

Botober 2024

By Janelle Shane On September 30, 2024 - 1 min read

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

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

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