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    Here’s an Easy Buck

    Anyone who wants this is welcome to it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 14, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 9 Comments

    The bot

    As you possibly recall, I suck at writing fiction. So I enlisted the help of ChatGPT.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 1, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 33 Comments

    A Really Good Paper

    I paid a brief visit to my old friend Gary McGraw, who used to work in computer security with me, but has switched to focusing on AI applications in that field. He’s my “go to guy” when I have questions about AI, and I was surprised that his view of ChatGPT3, etc., is that they are toys.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 22, 2023
    • AI, Reviews of Things, Science, Things That Delight Me
    • 13 Comments

    John Ringo In The Crosshairs

    This is an entire posting elaborating on a comment I made over at pharyngula, regarding whether AI “creativity” poses a problem for great artists.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 15, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 32 Comments

    A Stolen Meme

    I am stealing a meme from pharyngula [phar] high tech industrial spy IX-103 responded to a question with:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 12, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 18 Comments

    More From The Marilyn Files

    When I started noodling with midjourney, I used Ronald Reagan and Marilyn Monroe as prompts, because I figured there were lots of pictures of them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 10, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 17 Comments

    Right Wing M&Ms, From Midjourney

    Over at Pharyngula, special jackbooted operative raven floated a dangerous idea: [pha]

    I suppose Tucker Carlson wants one of the M&Ms to wave a Swastika flag around or carry an AR 15 rifle or something. The right wingnut patriot M&M.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 1, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 16 Comments

    A Thought Experiment

    If everything you read on the internet was written by AIs, would you care?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 1, 2023
    • AI, Reviews of Things
    • 12 Comments

    Training Day

    The obvious answer to getting better looking hands from a generative AI would be to give it a few examples of good hands.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 30, 2023
    • AI, Art
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    The AI Singularity

    I’ve been struggling with a problem: “what happens if someone tells an AI to ‘code a better version of yourself?’ and – whoosh – the singularity happens?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 28, 2023
    • AI, I don't even know how to categorize this one, Philosophy, Science
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