AI Weirdness (Page 18)

The cake is covered in a sagging marshmallowy coating that might once have had sleek robotic curves.

AI cake fails

By Janelle Shane On August 18, 2021 - 5 min read

AI cake fails are unlike any cake fails I've seen before. What do you get when your cake is being generated by something that's seen lots of pictures labeled "cake" but has never had a cake or experienced physics? CLIP+VQGAN are two algorithms

quote tweet this with a selfie, but with somebody invisible Photoshopped in next to you.

Quote tweet with your favorite neural net

By Janelle Shane On August 13, 2021 - 3 min read

You know those games that go around on platforms like Twitter, where people share pictures of themselves looking like the leader of an underground resistance, or search google images for their name + fantasy armor or somesuch? I assume that if you successfully start one of these games, fame and fortune

A painting of stone columns, redwood treetops, and humanoid stone pillars

My favorite nonexistent painter

By Janelle Shane On August 06, 2021 - 3 min read

People have noted [https://twitter.com/moultano/status/1418256870259580934?s=20] that when using giant internet-trained AIs like CLIP+VQGAN to generate images, you get much nicer-looking images if you include an artist byline. Here's "Internet Infrastructure" And here's "Internet Infrastructure

An AI-generated room with a confusing, sprawling piece of furniture in it.

Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?

By Janelle Shane On July 23, 2021 - 3 min read

Like other ambiguous [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-art-of-asking-nicely/] image-generation [https://www.aiweirdness.com/why-is-generated-furniture-so-cursed/] prompts [https://www.aiweirdness.com/internet-grab-bag/], asking for "a gothic wardrobe" had the AI hedging its bets. In CLIP+VQGAN's

Two chairs with seats of thick knotted pieces of wood and backs like carved pillars.

Generated furniture: cursed, but beautiful

By Janelle Shane On July 16, 2021 - 4 min read

Beetle kill pine is a popular wood in Colorado, salvaged from trees killed by pine bark beetles. While the dead trees stand before harvesting, a fungus colonizes them, giving the wood interesting blue-grey streaks called spalting. It's a really pretty wood. But AI apparently thinks "a

AI cake fails

Quote tweet with your favorite neural net

My favorite nonexistent painter

Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?

Generated furniture: cursed, but beautiful

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