Janelle Shane

Teacups with mostly nonsensical messages written in, or sometimes on, the leaves.

Reading tea leaves

By Janelle Shane On July 01, 2022 - 5 min read

DALL-E (and other text-to-image generators) will often add text to their images even when you don't ask for any. Ask for a picture of a Halifax Pier [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-terror-of-the-sea/] and it could end up covered in messy writing,

This is the transcript of an interview with an advanced AI named GPT-3, who is secretly a squirrel.

Interview with a squirrel

By Janelle Shane On June 16, 2022 - 5 min read

Google's large language model, LaMDA, has recently been making headlines after a Google engineer (now on administrative leave), claimed to be swayed by an interview in which GPT-3 described the experience of being conscious. Almost everyone else who has used these large text-generating AIs, myself included,

AI versus corporate logos

By Janelle Shane On June 03, 2022 - 3 min read

I recently started playing with DALL-E 2, which will attempt to generate an image to go with whatever text prompt you give it. Like its predecessor DALL-E, it uses CLIP, which OpenAI trained on a huge collection of internet images and nearby text. I've experimented with

Three weird donuts including the Violet Beauregarde, The Confusatron, and I heart my gay ex

AI-generated donuts

By Janelle Shane On May 29, 2022 - 3 min read

If you're going to open a late-night donut shop, you're going to need a unique set of over-the-top donuts to set the proper festive atmosphere. But how to keep the ideas coming? I decided to see what donut ideas I could get using

Will Orioles eat jelly with ants in it? The Orioles are a professional baseball team in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Baltimore Orioles Effect

By Janelle Shane On May 12, 2022 - 4 min read

Back when the text-generating neural network GPT-2 was released, OpenAI released it in stages, in part for fear that people might use the more advanced models to generate misinformation. Now in 2022 we do indeed have people passing off AI-written text as human, but rather than being

Reading tea leaves

Interview with a squirrel

AI versus corporate logos

AI-generated donuts

The Baltimore Orioles Effect

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