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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

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

Christmas entities

By Janelle Shane On December 22, 2021 - 2 min read

When you think about it, Christmas can get pretty weird. There's the classic Christmas story of the Bible, and then there are all these extra entities that aren't in the book but which become somehow part of Christmas. And some of them are quite unsettling. There's the immortal flying reindeer

A screenshot of the AI Weirdness 2021 Advent Calendar, with one of the doors highlighted

An AI advent calendar

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2021 - 2 min read

When I was a kid I looked forward to opening advent calendar doors in December, although the pictures behind the doors were pretty forgettable. A bell. A snowflake. If you were lucky, a squirrel. So I thought I'd see if I can generate something a bit more interesting, with the

A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

By Janelle Shane On December 22, 2018 - 2 min read

This seems to be a year for AI experiments centered around Christmas movies. MIT Technology Review [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/] generated some titles and plot summaries (I would probably watch The Christmas StorK) and Botnik Studios [https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/1074700267046756353] has been using predictive text

Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On December 20, 2017 - 4 min read

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way that brains learn to solve problems. They’re used for face recognition, self-driving cars, language translation, financial decisions, and more. I mainly use them to write humor. My process starts with a dataset - something that the neural

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Victorian Holiday cards by AI

AI Advent Calendar 2022

Christmas entities

An AI advent calendar

A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

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