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Playing with Openart.ai
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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Trying to get it to generate pictures in the style of Edward Gorey. It's mastered (?? - somewhat) the style, but is having difficulty reading my prompts. For example, all images were generated from variations on the prompt: "A group of police officers chasing a masked bandit down the street at night, in the Style of Edward Gorey." I added a cat to one image. Results as follows:
Anyways, interesting, but not quite what I'm looking for...
More AI Nonsense
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
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On Facebook, perpetually trying to engage me with groups it thinks I'd like.
Like "Owl Lovers".
Captioned "Great Photograph", which it would be, if there were some subspecies of 6 legged owl in the Sahara Desert.
Pretty sure there isn't.
But you see this more and more, "Dream Homes" - which don't exist, or "Archeological Mysteries" that aren't, and AI is proving a remarkable tool at generating photo-realistic documentation of non-events. And who has time to fact-check everything?
This is where we're heading, where the past, present, and future are all one big confabulation, impossible given the bots writing the content, the increasing gullibility of people that are too busy and distracted to care, the inability to process and sort the increasingly huge volumes of information, of which only a diminishing fraction is true...
His Girl Friday
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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1940, Cary Grant. On the recommendation of a friend, curious, in that I've never watched a film like it, but I wasn't enamored. Although I had to laugh at the props, I own all of them, my last best life was definitely sometime in the 1940's...
Bears on Baker...
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- Category: Images
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On Facebook, all the time, postings of the Baker Street Bears.
Last night, leaving the liquor store, about to cut down the alley to avoid the homeless and what do I see?
Zoomed in:
So, skip the alley. Home, later, pop out for a cigarette, left phone upstairs charging, the same bear, big, now moseying up the alley, comes within 5 feet of me, then turns around, goes over the stairs quickly and is off...damn, missed a good photo.
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