Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

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/

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/

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/

What fascinates me about generating images with CLIP is that it CAN generate depth and realistic textures, but only if you know how to ask for them.

"A herd of sheep grazing on a lush green hillside" alone

vs with "amazing awesome and epic" added
https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/the-art-of-asking-nicely/

The problem with taking startup advice from a text-generating neural network is even the advanced ones know more about what sounds good than about what actually works.
https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/ai-doesnt-understand-scale/

In which a neural net prompted with NOAA's Atlantic Basin Storm Name Pronunciations guide further erodes the already tenuous link between English spelling and pronunciation
https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/hurricanes-and-how-they-are-pronounced/

Make your move while the AI-generated Bachelorette contestants are still available!
https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/fun-facts-about-fun-guys/

Generate buzz with these AI food truck concepts.

Remember, GPT-3 scanned most of the internet during training so it knows what's popular!
https://aiweirdness.com/post/651804014415118336/ai-generated-food-trucks

Botsplaining: turns out it's much easier to get a neural nets to sound confident than to actually be correct.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/651171970623455232/botsplaining

It will never fail to amuse me how terrible AI-generated jokes are.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/650539219288227840/ai-writes-star-wars-jokes

I used GPT-3 to generate new Disney villains.

I, too, rebel against the mandatory sasquatch dress code.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/649898164683472897/new-disney-villains

I used GPT-3 to generate wiki-style articles about Disney princesses, and uncovered the secret powers and items of Snow White
https://aiweirdness.com/post/649266848537427968/the-next-disney-princesses

Being vaccinated does NOT mean it's okay to ask neural nets to participate in meme formats about pandemics that didn't exist when their training data cut off in Oct 2019. You will get memes that make no sense. Be smart.
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/being-vaccinated-does-not

I used a few GPT-3 variants to generate April Fools pranks suitable for playing on oneself at home.

For the format they had to rely on pranks they'd seen during their internet training. Curie, the 2nd largest variant, sounded the most pranklike.
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/pranks-you-can-do-at-home

I assumed that if GPT-3 generated pickup lines, they would be terrible because they would be something like human pickup lines. Instead, they are terrible for more delightful reasons.
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/gpt-3-tries-pickup-lines?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

Obsessed with CLIP+FFT, which uses CLIP, an internet-trained image-judging AI, to steer a deep dream-like image generator.

It'll do what you ask, but it will do it excessively.

"Frodo Baggins delivering pizza through the mines of Moria"
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/lucid-deep-dreaming