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Hidden 3D Pictures

By Janelle Shane On April 18, 2024 - 4 min read

Do you know those autostereograms with the hidden 3D pictures? Images like the Magic Eye pictures from the 1990s that look like noisy repeating patterns until you defocus your eyes just right? ChatGPT can generate them! At least according to ChatGPT. I've seen people try making Magic Eye-style

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

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

ChatGPT describes code that draws a pink pony but actually produces a pink pig face

Chatbot, draw!

By Janelle Shane On May 05, 2023 - 3 min read

I'm interested in cases where it's obvious that chatbots are bluffing. For example, when Bard claims its ASCII unicorn art has clearly visible horn and legs but it looks like this: or when ChatGPT claims its ASCII art says "Lies" when it clearly says

Chatgpt: Here's the ASCII art of the word "lies" (generates block letters that clearly read "sip")

What does this say?

By Janelle Shane On April 15, 2023 - 3 min read

Large language models like ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Bard are trained to generate answers that merely sound correct, and perhaps nowhere is that more evident than when they rate their own ASCII art. I previously had them rate their ASCII drawings, but it's true that representational art can be

ChatGPT says "Sure, here's an ASCII art of a unicorn" and generates something that looks like a melting triangular person.

ASCII art by chatbot

By Janelle Shane On March 31, 2023 - 3 min read

I've finally found it: a use for chatGPT that I find genuinely entertaining. I enjoy its ASCII art. (huge thanks to mastodon user blackle mori for the inspiration) I think chatGPT's ASCII art is great. And so does chatGPT. Lest you think chatGPT (here, the March

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Hidden 3D Pictures

The spookiest Halloween scenes

Botober 2023

Trolling chatbots with made-up memes

Chatbot, draw!

What does this say?

ASCII art by chatbot

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