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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
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    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
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    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

    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
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    Unrelated

    Let me introduce you to Roberto Ferri.

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

    The Perils of Literal AI

    I went to Hong Kong twice in the early 00s, and the second time I decided to have one of Hong Kong’s legendary tailors clone me a copy of my dad’s vintage 1940s Hart Schaffner and Marx tuxedo. (spoiler: it came out great)

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 1, 2023
    • AI, Art
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    Forced Error

    I am forced to edit the immortal words of Shelley:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 21, 2023
    • AI, Art
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    In Which I Meme With The Herd

    Mooing and thundering, the trendy set blaze a trail across the grasslands, leaving poop, witticisms, candy bar wrappers, and empty Perrier bottles…

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 7, 2023
    • AI, Art
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