That's an intriguing possibility, I had not thought of that!
Given the perfect focus at both extremes, and given that the boat lines on either side of the fish do not agree with each other, I'm assuming this image is AI-generated. The machines often have trouble keeping backgrounds consistent across a large interruption (like this fish).
But then again, the words on his shirt look sane.
I get the fiction part, but where's the science?
Gotta sneak it in the side... let's try "who can build the largest/most diamonds from atmospheric carbon".
At least they got one scene on the halo, otherwise it would have been a haloless halo.
Those flush tracks look so safe compared to the standard death pits.
...and call people in by shouting: "Walla Walla house on fire".
Probabalistic meals, huh? So... in the same scoop you might get unidentifiable ancient protiens along with some raw-and-inedible stuff.
You seem to have created a pocket universe where it is both night and day simulatenously.
I'm confused... wasn't there a big stir about green bubbles being the lowly Android peasants?
Do people actually get upset if you forget their name?
If so, does that mean people actually remember a persons name & face after only one encounter?!
If not, why do we pretend they will be upset, and try to hide the fact that we forget an unfamiliar name?
How to combat creeping firefox enshitification?
I deal with a lot of VMs for varying purposes, and it seems frequent that my purpose for opening firefox is derailed by some kind of nag. For example, I frequently get the "you haven't used firefox in a while" in vms that I rarely use firefox and have to go disable the "meta refresh" option in the "about:config".
Now, I've started seeing this one... it's not even one of the passive banners but a full-page stop-the-world w/ semi-transparent background and right-click prevention.
Before I invest too much time trying to figure out how to disable these, or templating profile options en-masse, or the like... I thought I might ask... is there a way I can tell firefox that I only want it to only be a web-browser? i.e. an effective tool and not an attention sink or exciting video-game-like challenge of exploration and closing popups and suggestions while trying to remember why I launched it.
Somewhat relatedly, there is some kind of irony with firefox prominently offering to copy a URL without tracking for other sites, but when it is their own ad (however benign it might seem) that they disable right-clicks and load up on the trackers. The above button links to:
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-devices?utm_source=spotlight-default&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_campaign=migration&utm_content=new-device-in-your-future&entrypoint=device-migration-spotlight-experiment-v2&utm_term=aboutwelcome-default-screen&as=u
I'm here to discuss your car's extended warranty
dall-e v3 w/ minor post-generation mods. Prompt: A robotic solicitor knocks on a home's closed front door with his right fist knuckles. The robot is dressed in a suit which has a large corporate logo on it and holds a tablet in his left hand.
If someone were to call you a "full stack" developer, would that feel like a complement or an insult?
I know managers love that term, but I think I've come to hear it as an insult... Sorta like being called an unprofessional "jack of all trades" budget handyman that does everything mediocre...
If they charge by the image, and there is any expectation that AI image-generators might produce garbage results, then AI providers are incentivized to make you pay for their experimentation
without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you'll just roll the dice and try again.
Isolation Island
This is my attempt to recreate an image from one of my friends who is an artist. After generating the image, I modified it in gimp to better capture the feel of the original artwork.
dall-e 3 prompt: A pale human figure abstraction sits atop one of the floating islands hugging his knees facing right. The islands have round tops, crumbling dirt below, green grass on the top, and they float in a spacial void of black, blue, and purple. Some of the other floating islands are also flat-topped with grass, but some are just lifeless asteroids. There are no planets and no sun.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked computers...
dall-e 3; prompt: "The Linux computer system that every nerd can only dream of owning."
The old-guard
dall-e 3; prompt: "Photorealistic. A futuristic alien stands before you holding a spear-like weapon in a non-threatening manner."
Power overwhelming
Workflow: I asked gpt-3.5 to describe in meticulous visual detail a single panel from "BLAME!" where Killy is firing his gravitational beam emitter (GBE) in only one paragraph. I think I used the phrase "as if to a blind person" because it kept wanting to give me a narrative. I then handed that paragraph to dall-e-3 and got this image.