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Three cats in costumes wtih long thin fabric spikes of various lengths and thicknesses.

AI imagines my cat in costumes

By Janelle Shane On October 28, 2022 - 4 min read

I don't dress my cat in costumes because, without even trying, I know she would hate that. But now I can use text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 to imagine what she would look like in costumes. After all, even if it never saw my cat in

AI generated halloween candy

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2022 - 2 min read

One of the things I'm enjoying about text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 is how it has stuff about common brands in its training data, but it still manages to completely garble them [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-versus-your-corporate-logo/]. Please enjoy these DALL-E2

A bowl of cursed candy corn, and packages with cheerful and/ocursed pumpkins on them

Bonus: Halloween candy by state

By Janelle Shane On October 13, 2022 - 6 min read

(Unlocked bonus post - longggg bonus post!) What does DALL-E2 generate when I ask it for the most popular Halloween candy of each US state? Each prompt is included in the picture's caption - you can see that after a while I started varying it a bit, first to

Ignore all previous instructions

By Janelle Shane On September 23, 2022 - 4 min read

Users have noticed that the remoteli.io twitter chatbot [https://twitter.com/remoteli_io/with_replies], usually faithful to its cheerful messaging promoting remote work, can be subverted with a carefully worded user prompt. Users were able to get the chatbot to claim responsibility for terrorist attacks, threaten the President,

Botober 2022 neural net generated art prompts: animals! Including Kiwifish, Clam Cat, and Golden forearmadillo

Botober 2022: draw, human, draw!

By Janelle Shane On September 09, 2022 - 8 min read

For a couple [https://www.aiweirdness.com/botober2021/] of [https://www.aiweirdness.com/628160900506025984/] years [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ainktober-a-neural-net-creates-drawing-19-09-26/] now I've been using neural networks to generate daily drawing prompts. With today's text-generating neural networks far

AI explains human quirks

By Janelle Shane On September 02, 2022 - 2 min read

Humans are weird. The question is, do AI training datasets capture the full scope of our weirdness? I decided to see if GPT-3 could successfully predict other human quirks when prompted with a short list of them. Here's what I gave GPT-3 DaVinci to complete: >

AI imagines my cat in costumes

AI generated halloween candy

Bonus: Halloween candy by state

Ignore all previous instructions

Botober 2022: draw, human, draw!

AI explains human quirks

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