That would be a great name for a web app programming language. It would have very long-term memories and a really aggressive garbage collector.
More midjourney cthulhu mythos:
Midjourney and mjr: “cthulhu is made of gingerbread with frosting decor”
Look at those adorable toesie-woesies!
Then I started thinking about translating this stuff into real physical objects. I see there are several AI art generators that output 3d geometries. I don’t think they are “there” yet, because the geometries rely very heavily on texture mapping instead of actual polys. To 3D print, you want polys. But at the rate the field is maturing, that’ll probably be an option to midjourney sometime next week.
Midjourney and mjr: “a beautiful cloissone pin of cthulhu”
And this is one I definitely would wear as a cloak pin, if I had a bronze and silver 3d print of it:
Midjourney and mjr: “a celtic knotwork style pin of cthulhu”
I was telling a friend about some of this crazy art, and she said, “well have it do a rendering of a mortician’s bathroom” (she’s a mortician) I went simple and used a prompt consisting only of “the mortician’s bathroom.”
Midjourney and mjr: “the mortician’s bathroom”
I bet you could make that, and sell it for a lot. Sand-cast the outer shapes in aluminum, with thick stained glass, oh yes, oh yes. I’m gonna say that, with the sand-casting and mold-making necessary, it’d cost about $50,000. It’s doable.
Last but not least, the mood I’m in:
Midjourney and mjr: “the ronin walks a narrow path into the dark woods”
These are so wonderful. I particularly like the Celtic knotwork one – it would be fun to bring that one to reality. I can see versions of it with small rubies hanging off the lower three tentacles.
I am imagining the ronin is bringing along (strapped to his back) his own small troupe of fireflies, very wise when one is going into the dark woods.
Some of the processes wouldn’t go away when you killed them. They just sleep for a while and then respawn when you least want them.
I would also make a comment about the documentation driving people insane but trying to understand how real web frameworks work tends to do that anyways.
I could see either pin making a great kilt pin to keep it from going all flappy up front.
I like them all but I love the cloak pin, and the mortician’s bathroom.
Midjourney and mjr, “Cthulhu, cute, happy, playing with a pogo stick”
The cloak pins are lovely. Cute Cthulhu also also appears to have subtle Celtic knot or Mendi pattern work on its head?
I think it’s pogo stick needs a few more tentacle rests, but it would be adorable as a tree ornament. Santa Cthulhu?
@2
Try to read some Texas Instruments SoC manuals, especially the one for OMAP3.
Midjourney AI and mjr “Santa cthulhu spreads nameless dread and good cheer.”
What’s in the box? You don’t want to know. But it’s your christmas present.
I just asked midjourney for cthulhu christmas ornaments and it has been kicking back a surfeit of amazingly cute and creative stuff including one cut from paper. I’m not going to post them all here but they’re easily post-worthy.
Midjourney and mjr: “cute christmas cthulhu creche with baby worm in the manger and 3 nameless terrors”
I would pay money for that if I could get a version for my mantle
Midjourney and mjr: “cthulhu christmas tree ornament”
Midjourney and mjr: “horrifying and scary cthulhu christmas tree topper”
Over here at FTB, we’ve begun the war on christmas early.
No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you
Reginald Selkirk@#11:
Have you been reading my mind? I’ve just been having midjourney imagine a bunch of scenes from computer games. It’s doing remarkably well. I’ll doubtless post a few.
And now I have to go ask it “imagine microsoft windows 32”
@12: I wonder how much computing power it takes for an AI to mimic a 386 processor.
@Reginald Selkirk:
“Imagine a version of msdos written by abdul alhazred”
@12:
Ha! I thought when I read that they’d just released Midjourney version 4, given that there must be plenty of source data available now, how accurate it would be if you tried queries of the form “X in the style of Midjourney version 3”. Which leads obviously into wondering what would happen if instead you asked “X in the style of Midjourney version 5” and whether that is how Midjourney version 5 will come into existence.
The Santa Cthulhu decorations are great, I like the crèche scene too. However, the Cthulhu tree topper seems to be converting the tree into a tentacled eldritch horror.
@5: The pogo stick seems to lack foot pedals, which I guess is OK since the Cthulhu lacks feet.
@14
That would be … MSDOS.
Then again, parts of Amiga OS had shades of it, particularly the stuff written in BCPL with its weirdo pointers…
Fascinating article on how AI is going to ruin the internet… https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/06/internet_ai_gpt_ios/?td=rt-3a
@19: I’m not convinced that (a) we’ll notice the difference, or (b) it hasn’t happened already.
Either way, it only accelerates the death of the ad-funded model of the internet, which I think on balance is probably a good thing.
@sonofrojblake:
Ah, the great enshitment.
As long as it collapses the ad economy I suppose it’s worth it. But it’s “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” stuff.