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    As you possibly recall, I suck at writing fiction. So I enlisted the help of ChatGPT.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 1, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
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    John Ringo In The Crosshairs

    This is an entire posting elaborating on a comment I made over at pharyngula, regarding whether AI “creativity” poses a problem for great artists.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 15, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 32 Comments

    A Stolen Meme

    I am stealing a meme from pharyngula [phar] high tech industrial spy IX-103 responded to a question with:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 12, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 18 Comments

    More From The Marilyn Files

    When I started noodling with midjourney, I used Ronald Reagan and Marilyn Monroe as prompts, because I figured there were lots of pictures of them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 10, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 17 Comments

    Right Wing M&Ms, From Midjourney

    Over at Pharyngula, special jackbooted operative raven floated a dangerous idea: [pha]

    I suppose Tucker Carlson wants one of the M&Ms to wave a Swastika flag around or carry an AR 15 rifle or something. The right wingnut patriot M&M.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 1, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 16 Comments

    Training Day

    The obvious answer to getting better looking hands from a generative AI would be to give it a few examples of good hands.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 30, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 17 Comments

    Warhammering

    I haven’t gotten bored of the AI generated art, yet. There will almost certainly be more.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 24, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 13 Comments

    Goat Rodeo

    Someone over at dkos described the republican controlled house as a “goat rodeo” and I immediately decided to steal the term. It has way better visuals than that old stand-by “clusterfuck” and I don’t want to think about what that would even look like.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 21, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 14 Comments

    All My Base Are Belong To Me

    Fallout 76 has been occupying a fair amount of my time. In fact you could say my life is split evenly between crafts and gaming. If you had asked me a year ago what my ideal life was, I’d say it was this.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • December 15, 2022
    • Art, Gaming
    • 24 Comments

    The Hot Cut

    Hot folding damascus is one of the quintessential parts of the process, and it’s always a bit fraught.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • December 13, 2022
    • Art
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