AI Weirdness (Page 4)

Cartoons of fruits, mostly incorrectly labeled. There's a lemon labeled Bawo and a strawberry labeled Cherpes.

Learn your fruits and vegetables

By Janelle Shane On November 10, 2023 - 1 min read

Thanks to DALL-E3 generated educational material, we can bypass the need for teachers and textbook writers. Can it do fruits? Of course it does fruits! Or perhaps you would like to learn your berries? Perhaps you would like to learn your berries in SWEDISH? I'm learning so much.

Left: the original hotel room. Right: the hotel room as recreated by DALL-E3 from Bard's description, full of skulls and skel

The spookiest Halloween scenes

By Janelle Shane On October 30, 2023 - 5 min read

Google Bard has the ability to describe images. But it turns out what you get depends a lot on how you ask. I gave Bard this image and the prompt "Please describe this spooky Halloween scene". On the right is the image I got when I took the

A collage of mini candy bars with names like "Shieiss" "Tnsiss", and "Reetys".

Choose your candy

By Janelle Shane On October 26, 2023 - 2 min read

In Which DALL-E3 generates very weird candy names

Botober 2023

By Janelle Shane On September 30, 2023 - 5 min read

Since 2019 I've generated October drawing prompts using the year's most state-of-the-art text-generating models. Every year the challenges are different, but this was one of the hardest years yet. Large language models like chatgpt, GPT-4, Bing Chat, and Bard, are all tweaked to produce generic, predictable

Drawing of a walrus with "imagine a tiny little walrus. you call them a 'snowbonk' and put them in the fridge so they chill"

Trolling chatbots with made-up memes

By Janelle Shane On September 24, 2023 - 2 min read

ChatGPT, Bard, GPT-4, and the like are often pitched as ways to retrieve information. The problem is they'll "retrieve" whatever you ask for, whether or not it exists. Tumblr user @indigofoxpaws sent me a few screenshots where they'd asked ChatGPT for an explanation of

Learn your fruits and vegetables

The spookiest Halloween scenes

Choose your candy

Botober 2023

Trolling chatbots with made-up memes

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