#a shark buying a Mello-Yello at the 7-11

[prdzx]

[therobotmonster]

I've seen people say that the new AI art has lost the charm that its early first-gen incarnations had...

That the "seeing the pure madness of the machine" had gone. But to that I say:

"a shark buying a Mello-Yello at the 7-11, snapshot photograph, 1977"

Generated with Bing Image Generator, 10/9/23

The longer I look at it the more things I notice.

[therobotmonster]

Not saying this isn't AI-generated but Chat-GPT can't evaluate work to determine how it was made, as was demonstrated by academic nincompoop Dr. Jared Mumm.

Chat-GPT invents its answers on the fly based on the most likely word/concept that follows next. It will invent a yes/no answer for you when asked, the same way Dall-E 3 will make you a picture of the mothman or a shark buying a Mello-Yello at the 7-11:

The ability to perform improv is not the ability to recognize improv, at least in machine terms. Using Chat-GPT to search for its own use is pseudoscience, and you should not get used to using that method. You should trust it as much as you trust a dowsing rod.

Even AI detection methods specifically designed to do that job (which Chat-GPT, I emphasize, is not) are unreliable and easily baffled in either direction, assuming they work at all and aren't highly curated showpieces designed for B2B acquisition over actual functionality.

So this is what we in the fiction trade call a lie, a made up story, and not true. In case anyone ever tells you they read it online.

I'm not linking to it because I won't give them the clicks.

[prdzx]