Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

Gave a neural net some examples from @mondomascots and it responded with some deeply weird mascots.

The Brando, a guesthouse in Tokyo, is represented by Garapon-kun, a shy yet terrifying Jack-in-the-box that likes to play with balloons.

Makuo, a sea anemone from Kagoshima, can see the future. His antennae are mittens, but he has eight toes on each hand.
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/the-mascot-of-ai-weirdness-is-a-cyborg?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

I tried to generate images of candy hearts using Ryan Murdock's CLIP+BigGAN method.

The results were less sweet than I had hoped.
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/curse-your-valentine-with-these-candy?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

Decided to try GPT-3 at the task of generating candy hearts. They are not candy hearts you'll see in the store. https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/okay-gpt-3-candy-hearts?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

"Leaning Tower of Pizza"

I used @advadnoun's Big Sleep program to steer BigGAN into generating weird images for me, using CLIP for feedback. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it failed hilariously.

https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/searching-for-bernie?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

In which I revisit some AI Weirdness posts from 2020 that inspired humans to do delightfully weird stuff
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/ai-weirdness-in-2020?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

Not only can DALL-E generate some pretty amazing pictures, but someone at @OpenAI put some very ai weirdness-worthy prompts in the demo. These are so much fun.

https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/the-drawings-of-dall-e?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

“That Time It Rained for Two Million Years”
“When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas”
A lot of stuff has happened in 4.5 billion years.

I prompted GPT-3 with epic @EonsShow episode titles to see what the next billion years might hold.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/638857733189320704/the-epic-history-of-the-earth

Got GPT-3 to generate new Christmas carols.

Here is "Mild is Rudolph". Are you not cheered and comforted?

https://aiweirdness.com/post/638130829107806208/alternate-rudolphs

I gave a set of 2020 headlines to the neural net GPT-3, whose training data cut off in October 2019.

Having never seen 2020, it tried to predict what headlines are next on the list.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/637497177623724032/2020-headlines

GPT-3 generates reviews for the tiny neural net char-rnn's chaotic recipes.

GPT-3 is apparently trying to produce reviews that could plausibly be written by whatever weird humans are visiting this mangled recipe website.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/636407379424100352/a-big-neural-net-reviews-a-smaller-neural-nets

So I managed to get GPT-3 to generate new Victorian handkerchief flirting codes.

I hope you find them useful for adding subtext to your next zoom call
https://aiweirdness.com/post/635599715510239232/post-human-flirting

Since we all aren't busy enough, I used GPT-3 to generate new to-do items from DaVinci's notebooks.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/634684907050909696/what-to-do-with-your-time

This AI has never heard of #Blaseball but when I gave it the list of existing teams, GPT-3 predicted that these teams will come next.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/633411394686042112/splorts-teams

The neural net GPT-3 has seen enough Halloween costumes in its general internet training that to get something unusual, you have to ask it for a twist.

I asked for high-visibility costumes for viewing in the age of covid, and was not disappointed.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/632054728359051264/high-visibility-costumes-for-distanced-viewing

Made a neural net version of one of those color memes.

Tag yourself!
https://aiweirdness.com/post/631518572673449984/what-color-are-you

Wondered what would happen if I gave this prompt, a permanent message designed for a nuclear waste site, to something oppositely ephemeral, a neural net trained on a snapshot of internet text from October 2019.

This post is not a post of honor.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/630526925551616000/this-blog-is-not-a-blog-of-honor

Are you not terrified and repulsed??

I prompted GPT-3 with some human proposals for marking a nuclear waste site, in a way that will still be forbidding millennia from now.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/629516384194461697/a-10000-year-warning

Rather than collect 1000s of supervillain bios, train a neural net on them, and style-transfer them all to be about AI, I just had GPT-3 generate the resulting blog post.

I collected my favorite AI supervillains and illustrated them.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/628791398606471168/ai-supervillains