Actually, I used to hang out at Affinity [aff] because sometimes there was interesting far-ranging discussions and art, and creativity. I started here at Pharyngula, when it was still under ScienceBlogs (I still have the mug!) and came to enjoy the rough-and-tumble crotch-kicking and religion-bashing. I still track there, but I have found that, in the last year, my ability to stay awake is seriously compromised, and the wars of religion are just a waste of time. In fact, I often catch myself thinking that the right-thinking people of the world were too busy pounding on theists to deconstruct the burgeoning fascist dictatorship that was growing in the wings.
That’s all beside the point, as usual.
While I was writing my posting about AI, last night, I had a minor brain-fart and immediately texted myself a message not to forget it. [Text messaging, with its ability to scroll back weeks or days is a total life-saver, as is camera roll. Now, when I take something apart, I religiously photograph all the steps – even if it was something I made – because if I get distracted for a few minutes, I’ll forget what I took apart from where.] There’s a meme going around where you ask GPT for an image, and then keep asking it to get more and more ${whatever}. This can be quite fun, to watch the AI come up with representations that are more and more disconnected from reality. You know, like creativity, except “remix all that stuff in your head, harder, GPT!” for some of you.
I’m sure that’s not an original way to conceptualize a blog, and I broadly hinted in that sort of direction in my prompt, but it only took GPT literally, a second, to create that, whereas if I had pestered one of my human artist friends they would have told me to fuck off and use AI, or wait ’till next year.
So, the meme’s model is to keep asking the AI for more and more extreme versions of ${whatever}
Yessssss!! That’s some Facebook-style “engagement” Actually, it’s interesting that GPT decided to use Facebook’s color scheme.
I am not a fan of the feng shui form of “social science” that purports that moods can be influenced by color palettes, but clearly this audience is primed to lose their shit in that particular shade of blue and white.
Now it’s starting to look like some of the other blogs on the internet, especially when “the usual suspects” are on parade.
Hm. Parade…
Hm
So much for the friendly coffee-shop atmosphere. Now it looks like the US House of Representatives, minus Kid Rock.
And they all lived happily ever after!!
the mariachis are reverse ICE, picking up stray commenters when they become too weak, and hauling them off in the elephant basket.
by the way, really glad to hear you’re getting good habits for using tech to help with your disability. some people would not be able to form those habits. hell, i don’t know if i could.
At least there still appears to be a functioning civil society to maintain wheel clamping enforcement. Probably run by the (awesomely popular) Forest Riverites?
I only saw one older woman and no women with short hair, there are no women at all in the final scenario; guess they’ve all died from complications after back street abortions or during pregnancy.
I found the elephant request amazing, particularly since I’d just seen this result from a prompt to ChatGPT: “Create a photo of an empty room with absolutely NO elephants”. You’ll have no problem guessing where it goes wrong.
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68451
There aren’t any knives, history books, code, or F-35s in this image. Anywhere.
:)
In addition to the lack of women noted by Jazzlet, the world imagined by the AI is so very white.
Why are people suddenly dressed like Colonel Sanders when the mariachis show up?
The wasteland populated solely by old white men in grey suits and one person pushing a grocery cart seems pretty spot on though.
Way too white.
Hmmm.
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That was fun!
Bébé Mélange@#2:
by the way, really glad to hear you’re getting good habits for using tech to help with your disability. some people would not be able to form those habits. hell, i don’t know if i could.
Thanks! I guess I should admit that I had to do some swirling around the drain for a while, before deciding that I either needed to end it, or deal with it. Since ending it would mean no more pizza or fun projects, I decided that can wait. It’s really, really, really grievous, though, how much I have been slowed down. But, again, I suppose I should just be grateful that I’m retired and have the means to take care of myself.
In the last picture, on the middle left, there is an animal with what looks like a donkey’s body and ears, and an elephant’s trunk.
Deliberate or inadvertent political commentary?