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Four very strange Victorian-esque Christmas cards, with leaping artichokes, dancing seahorses, and sledding poops.

Victorian Holiday cards by AI

By Janelle Shane On December 25, 2022 - 3 min read

I'll admit I don't understand Victorian holiday cards - why would Christmas be best illustrated by a pipe-smoking kangaroo in a dressing gown painting a portrait of a cigar-smoking stork? Or what would lead someone to give their loved ones a card with a crowd of sparrows marching with flaming

The word "fart" written 251 times, rated as 99.98% fake by the GPT2 detector

Apparently I am a robot

By Janelle Shane On December 10, 2022 - 2 min read

As AI-generated text is getting better, it's getting easier to pass it off as human-written. That's not to say it's as good as human-written. Its goal is to sound correct rather than be correct, so it has a well-known tendency to confidently make stuff up [https://www.aiweirdness.com/galactica/

Three advent calendars with illegible numbers and inscrutable illustrations

AI Advent Calendar 2022

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2022 - 3 min read

Please enjoy this advent calendar, generated and illustrated with the help of three machine learning models (GPT-3, DALL-E, and Midjourney) Full door descriptions 1. Eggnog as far as the eye could see 2. The fantastical lion of Mor-Bollox 3. Saturated Red Turkeys. 4. Blue reindeer (they're bouncing) 5. Candy Cane

galactica confidently asserts that the maximum output power achieved by a laser made entirely of cotton balls is 1.39 W.

Galactica: the AI knowledge base that makes stuff up

By Janelle Shane On November 21, 2022 - 5 min read

It seems like it's every couple of months that a big tech company releases a language model that's supposed to do amazing things. The Allen Institute for AI's Delphi [https://https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/] , whose authors said it "demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning" would judge anything

molecule.lab, frozen.forest, and dinosaur.pocke

AI-designed Mastodon communities

By Janelle Shane On November 14, 2022 - 2 min read

I've been using Mastodon as a social media platform for a few years, and one thing I like is how you can join themed communities. For example, you can join mastodon.gamedev.place if you want to hang out with people who build games, or oslo.town if you want

Victorian Holiday cards by AI

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