Still playing around with AI, for the first real time ever. Consider it research. I'm getting professionally involved with an endeavor that is heavy on artificial intelligence so I'm having to see what the thing is capable of doing, exactly.
(I'm adamantly sticking to my policy of NO writing blog posts with AI. If you see something written here and it's not otherwise stated, you can be assured that it is absolutely entirely written by me with my own gray matter.)
Yesterday I experimented with having ChatGPT compose a poem about the Orks from Warhammer 40,000 (the faction that I play whenever I do a game of 40K). You can, errr... enjoy the results here. Tonight I went further, so after upgrading to the subscription I started playing around with image generation.
The results are, ummmm... interesting.
Here's the one I'm most proud of: a dachshund sitting atop a Harley-Davidson motorcycle...
But here's the first one that I did off the top of my head: Ronald McDonald running from zombies...
Then there's this: a Dalek from Doctor Who holding a can of beer...
And finally we have what I tried to make it be the Joker fighting a xenomorph from the Alien movies, but it came out looking more like they're dancing...
Looks so easy but trust me, this is much harder than it seems. I tried to generate a picture of Jed Clampett from The Beverly Hillbillies shooting at a giant deranged bunny rabbit. That had some wildly off results. I then asked ChatGPT to "Generate an image of a hillbilly" and it refused to do so, saying that it would violate its policies. How does...?!?
No. Nevermind. I'm sure it's some ridiculous reason for that.
Don't know if I'll do more of these but at least now you have this peek into the disturbed mind that is Robert Christopher Knight's :-D
Edit 05/22/2024 1:30 PM EST: had some downtime today and I'm feeling extra creative so here are some more.
Bruce Campbell fighting off badgers with a chainsaw...
Two dachshunds in the style of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...
I would pay cash to see the movie with General Lee fighting Aliens! This is great Chris! Do more please!
ReplyDeleteGee, I dunno. This is a neat gimmick but I don't want to use it TOO much. I still don't want to use AI at all if possible. This was more or less just a "one-off". But we'll see if inspiration hits again
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, there is MUCH potential in a film about Baden Powell fighting zombies. He could use that as inspiration for when he writes the first scout handbook. Maybe he fights them in South Africa before the siege. Who's going to say it couldn't have happened? Chris you should make this your next screenplay :)
ReplyDeleteSolomon Grundy you have a point there. Several years ago there was a novel and subsequent book titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It was exactly what it said it was, LOL. There's no reason why Baden-Powell couldn't also fight the undead.
ReplyDeleteI may have to take a stab (pun hideously intended) at this.
Dalek with beer:
ReplyDeleteIN-TOX-I-CATE!! IN-TOX-I-CATE!!
Uggh! Please do put some distance between you and AI. I think you've got some funny ideas and I do like some of these but don't overuse it. AI art is anything but real art. It always looks too shiny and gauche. And please 100% do not make money from it. I think we know you Chris that you wouldn't do that but please take care that there are real artists who can do better than a computer ever can and they deserve the patronage.
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