Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

I made an interactive AI-generated advent calendar!
Image descriptions by GPT-3, illustrations by Pixray.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/an-ai-advent-calendar-2/

My hobby is getting neural nets to complete lists because even the advanced ones make it weird.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/gpt-3-it-cant-resist-a-list/

Pixray generating "View from the end of the Thanksgiving Table"

Demo here: https://pixray.gob.io/text2pixel/

Pixray Swirl uses CLIP to generate each frame to match my prompt, starting from a shifted version of the previous frame.

Prompt here was "Straight trail leading past a jelly landscape with jello mountains #8bit #pixelart

Come for the jellyfish, stay for the colossal jam jar.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/playing-with-pixels/

After I gave it a few examples of changing one style of text into another, I got GPT-3 to draw on the vast knowledge encoded in its internet training and improve some common error messages.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/use-ai-to-improve-your-error-messages/

"Our prototype model, Delphi, demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning" https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/

If I give it a few examples, I can get GPT-3 to change the style of a sentence. See how it improves my writing!

https://www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-improve-your-halloween-costume/

I decided to see what CLIP+VQGAN would do when I gave it a house and told it to make it haunted.

Original image:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:25Sep2018_Bedford_Gates_Handyside_Victorian_House.jpg
vs modified to better match the phrase "a haunted Victorian house"

I decided to give two neural nets a go at the Great British Bakeoff technical challenges. They did both much better and much worse than I had guessed.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/neural-networks-vs-the-bake-off-technical-challenge/

I feel like we often don't acknowledge how very strange US grocery store names are. People just think it's normal to shop at a place called Big Bear or Giant Eagle or Piggly Wiggly.

So I used GPT-3 to add to a list of Perfectly Normal grocery stores.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/very-normal-grocery-stores/

Because I so dearly love it when humans play along when computers ask for silly things, I have generated drawing prompts for #botober2021!

I've managed to get GPT-3 to follow themes. Here's "animals". The rest are at this link:
https://www.aiweirdness.com/botober2021/

AI is based on math so it must be correct.

New AI Weirdness post! https://www.aiweirdness.com/clip-backpropagation/

It's easier to make an industrial demon than a unicorn cake? I experimented with @RiversHaveWings's new diffusion-guided CLIP method.

"industrial demon, matte painting, artstation HD"
"unicorn cake with golden horn and rainbow sprinkles"
https://www.aiweirdness.com/unicorn-cakes/

"How the hell did she knit this?"

I had so much fun talking to Alison Korleski on the Fiber Nation podcast about SkyKnit, my AI-generated knitting pattern project.
https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/ai-knitting-im-sorry-dave-i-cant-knit-that/

There's no cake fail like an AI-generated cake fail.

I had CLIP+VQGAN attempt some classic showstopper cakes. Here's its "galaxy glaze cake"
https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-cake-fails/

Used GPT-3 to figure out how to become viral on the birdsite.

Um

Quote toot with a meme of you in a situation that makes you say "god damn it"

https://www.aiweirdness.com/quote-tweet-if-you-like-neural-nets/

Pretty striking the difference that a byline makes when asking CLIP+VQGAN to generate images.

"Internet infrastructure"
versus
"Internet infrastructure by James Gurney"

new post at aiweirdness.com!
https://www.aiweirdness.com/my-favorite-nonexistent-painter/

Tried to generate a chair made of beetle kill pine.

It's a wood with distinctive blue streaks, salvaged from trees killed by pine bark beetles. Turns out it was easier to get CLIP+VQGAN to generate the texture than the chair.

https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/why-is-generated-furniture-so-cursed/

Asking CLIP+VQGAN to generate

"a car driving down a road in monument valley"

versus "A car driving down a desert road in monument valley | dramatic atmospheric ultra high definition free desktop wallpaper"

SAME TRAINING DATA
https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/untitled/