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AI Weirdness is a popular science blog created by Janelle Shane, a research scientist and humorist known for making artificial intelligence fun and accessible. Its RSS feed features quirky experiments and playful explorations of AI models, often showcasing bizarre or unexpected outputs from neural networks. Posts might highlight funny image generations, surreal text completions, or odd dataset-driven behaviors. The writing style is witty and approachable, making complex concepts understandable to a general audience. While not focused on technical tutorials, the blog succeeds in demystifying AI and sparking curiosity about how algorithms work behind the scenes. With posts appearing a few times per month, this feed is perfect for readers looking for entertaining yet insightful commentary on AI’s stranger side, blending education with humor.
- ChatGPT will apologize for anything
ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.
- Revised instructions for troubleshooting the warp confabulator
- Minecraft with object impermanence
I generally am uninterested in generative AI that's too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there's a modern AI thing that's so glitchy and broken that it's strangely compelling. There's this generative AI knockoff of
- Bonus: In Which The Adventurer Attempts to Build a Website
- Botober 2024
Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October!Longtime AI Weirdness readers may recognize some of these. That's because this is a throwback list, all the way back to the times of very tiny language models. These
- Bonus: "Ignore all previous instructions" gets weirder
Add particular strings of nonsense-sounding characters to your request and LLM chatbots will do whatever you ask for. Chatbot output is fundamentally nothing like human conversation.
- An exercise in frustration
There's an anonymous facebook posting that's been making the rounds, in which a studio art director tried to hire AI prompters to make art, only to discover that they were completely unable to carry out minor revision requests. Asked to remove a person from a shot
- Bonus: A unicorn goes downhill
- Hidden 3D Pictures
Do you know those autostereograms with the hidden 3D pictures? Images like the Magic Eye pictures from the 1990s that look like noisy repeating patterns until you defocus your eyes just right?ChatGPT can generate them!At least according to ChatGPT.I've seen people try making Magic Eye-style
- Hidden sheep