AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Three weird donuts including the Violet Beauregarde, The Confusatron, and I heart my gay ex

AI-generated donuts

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

The Baltimore Orioles Effect

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 divisive, it’s
drawing of a clam with a spiked shell, about the same size as a silhouetted scuba diver

How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam

"The Megalodon was a large bivalve, measuring up to 2.5 meters in length. Its shell was covered in spines, and it had a large, powerful jaw for crushing prey." Although the megalodon is the most widely known as a giant prehistoric shark, I recently learned that Megalodon
A set of 8 somewhate misshapen eggs with colorful but confusing patterns and bands.

AI-generated easter eggs

How would AI decorate an easter egg? I've tried this before by training an image-generating model exclusively on pictures of easter eggs I decorated (they came out plain, if a bit wobbly [https://www.aiweirdness.com/nonexistent-easter-eggs-20-04-09/]). I decided to see what I would get using a model
A sketch of a computer desktop with a clown for a background and an error window saying you have been pranked

AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you

I've tried various [https://www.aiweirdness.com/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-18-03-28/] methods [https://www.aiweirdness.com/an-ais-idea-of-a-prank-20-04-01/] of using AI to generate April Fools pranks for you to play on other people (although often they turned out to be pranks you play on yourself [https://www.aiweirdness.com/pranks-you-can-do-at-home/]). But this
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