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    Stable Audio

    Right now, the popularity/interest in stable audio is so high that you basically can’t get to it unless you’re a journalist who has a public relations person making calls for you.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 17, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me, We are Fucked
    • 9 Comments

    Arachnophobia Warning

    If you get the crawlies from microbiota, you may not want to look at this posting.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 13, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 7 Comments

    Brain Fart Inaction

    Over at Mano’s, [mano] there is some discussion of “monster trucks”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 10, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 1 Comment

    A Metric Of Sorts?

    In my last posting, I decided to ask Midjourney AI to generate me a decorator of Robbie Robertson. The prompt I used was: “imagine Robbie Robertson” – that is all.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 13, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 14 Comments

    Danny Boy

    It’s when a vocalist is on the edge, that their voice comes through.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 28, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 15 Comments

    More AI Remixing

    [Content warning: pixels representing paint representing breasts]

    My favorite thing about AI art is that the results are throw-aways. You are not asking a real artist to pour weeks of work and years of skill into something that is, basically, a joke.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 21, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 12 Comments

    Unrelated

    Let me introduce you to Roberto Ferri.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
    • 4 Comments

    Another AI Prediction Coming True

    I remember many times when opinions have flown about AI being incapable of adequately simulating a human. The famous Turing Test is one example, but I remember a decade ago having a discussion with a fellow film buff about the eventuality that game engines would allow machinima to replace human actors.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 2, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
    • 16 Comments

    I Love When AI Go All-Conquering

    Seriously, sometimes we humans and our AI friends completely fail to get on the same page.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 28, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 7 Comments

    Lying to AI

    An AI doesn’t matter, right? It’s just garbage in/garbage out, there’s no moral value to it except what I choose to define. Right?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 8, 2023
    • AI, Philosophy, Politics
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