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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 by J*

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 internet training, those words might go with pictures of clothes in styles

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 chair

The art of asking nicely

By Janelle Shane On July 02, 2021 - 5 min read

There are upsides to working with a neural net that trained on a huge collection of internet images and text. One is that, instead of ominous grey geometric blobs [https://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways] when it doesn't understand your prompt (there is a free interactive demo of

AI doesn't understand scale

By Janelle Shane On June 24, 2021 - 4 min read

One of my favorite ways to mess around with text-generating AI is to see what it does with new games that didn't exist on the internet back when its training data was collected. OpenAI's GPT-3 models were trained with data that cut off in late 2019

Hurricanes and how they are pronounced

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2021 - 2 min read

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its planned hurricane names years in advance, and includes a pronunciation guide [https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/aboutnames_pronounce_atlc.pdf] for each name. An excerpt from NOAA's 2026 Atlantic Basin Storm Name Pronunciations: > Arthur AR-thur Bertha BUR-thuh

Fun facts about fun guys

By Janelle Shane On June 04, 2021 - 3 min read

The neural net GPT-3 has seen a lot of dating profiles during its internet training. But has it seen the Bachelorette contestant variety of astonishingly pedestrian dating profile?

AI-generated food trucks

By Janelle Shane On May 21, 2021 - 3 min read

One way to generate buzz for your new food truck: a unique theme or gimmick. But with new food trucks popping up everywhere, how can you ensure that your idea is creative enough? Lindsay Diamond [https://neurdy.com/] suggested a possible neural net solution. So as a demonstration, I wrote

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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

The art of asking nicely

AI doesn't understand scale

Hurricanes and how they are pronounced

Fun facts about fun guys

AI-generated food trucks

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