THE GREAT WORD ADVENTURE CONTINUES!!
This year patrons weren’t limited to just nouns. They chose words of all types, and I assembled them into ‘mad libs’ type sentences to provide demented inspiration for ridiculous pics. So…
VOTE FOR WORDS, WORDS, WORDS!!!
As for this comic…
Oh no! The world of generative A.I. has finally infiltrated Puck! Only as a reference in the story, though. The art is still all 100% me. No A.I. involved. You can tell because the backgrounds are lazy and the characters aren’t always on model and the panel composition is flawed. (I like how the only way to know something is human-generated now is if it looks a little like garbage. Lazy flaws and lack of talent are now the hallmarks of authenticity! And my work is very authentic.)
The one time AI is correct is in relation to Satan. Dana Carry would be proud.
It makes sense, right? Seeing as AI comes straight from hell.
As well as where it can go, if it were up to me.
Well go figure it would be interesting to watch how Hannah reacts to meeting Phoebe and her current situation.
Much to react to.
It was that day that Hannah learned that the world is a LOT weirder than she thought.
She also gained a sense of horror, remembering the ‘utter nonsense’ the AI had spit out before, and began questioning if it was true or not, and wondering how close to death we was.
When one’s world is shaken…
“Truth is stranger than fiction”. Or as Pill-Z said it: “Truth is strangled addiction”.
Generative AI is really good if you need to make something up. (Not necessarily something good).
Or trying things at random to get those neurons firing to remember what the heck you had that one time. (It was Pelmeni, btw.. it didn’t tell me that exactly but I was down to asking it to list kinds of dumplings).
I’ve been dabbling in homemade machine learning.. but that’s not very good at making stuff up. Mine just tries to make sense of the data given with the available tools (that I have to make).
I’m just going to trap it inside video games. (Getting ahead of the Matrix here). If it gets out of those, I need to make a level based on The Village, and give it a number.
I’m a little afraid of the whole thing. Perhaps one day I’ll be able to use AI to do something fairly tedious like color my work. We’ll see. But right now, I have no use for it and I’m terrified.
Use AI to grade your student’s work…
I’m wary of it, too. That’s why I’m sticking to what I can build by myself.
I even wrote a primitive program to take a peek inside its brain, while the language model ones remain a black box to the users. (Keep in mind, mine is simpler and I made it with the intention of being able to analyze it).
I’m a game dev as a hobby, so I can at least make my bot into a lab rat.
For these other ones.. I feel weird “talking” to a bot.
I personally think it should be illegal to create a program that is incomprehensible to even its creators. But that’s just me.
I trust you and your experiments. I don’t trust the goofballs in Silicon Valley.
What if it’s potentially comprehensible, but just poorly documented?
I think that’s likely.
“I think that’s likely.”
No, I mean would that code be legal. I’m asking ’cause my own code it.
Maybe it’s a stag party.
I’m for some reason thinking that all the animals gathering around her are male. So perhaps.
Where do you even get a stag and a bald eagle from, in Hamilton?
Has Phoebe been raiding Kilman Zoo again?
Bald Eagles nest in Coot’s Paradise.
Peregrin Falcons nest on the exterior of a downtown hotel.
Lots of deer in the forests too. My mom sent me a pic of a fawn curled-up under her backyard tree.
Just biked by Killman zoo a few days ago. But whitetail stags and bald eagles are all native to the Hamilton area. Granted, you’ll seldom find them in Gage park, but I’ve seen a family of bald eagles in Cootes Paradise and I see stags all over the place where I live in the west end.
So it seems that you guys have more wildlife around you than we do in Oz.
Used to have wallabies here, but they got moved on by residential development and it is a very rare sighting nowadays to see a raptor like a wedge-tail eagle.
Pity, I miss the wallabies hopping down the footpath at sunset going to their nest sites.
All depends on where you are around here. In the cities or the larger suburbs, you’ll be hard-pressed to see animals larger than raccoons. I used to live deeper into civilization, and I didn’t see much. Now, though, I live at the edge of a huge nature preserve and my neighborhood is surrounded by forests on all sides. I would sometimes get up in the morning to find ten deer in my backyard. Once had a rather tense stand-off with a stag when I chased his girlfriends away and he emerged from behind the gazebo.
“Lazy flaws and lack of talent are now the hallmarks of authenticity”
And fingers, always count the fingers.
Gecko, you are way too hard on yourself, man.
Nah, the AI figured out the fingers. Mostly.
And I’ve never met any form of artist who isn’t hard on themselves. It’s just a universal trait. It’s the only way we can get better: to constantly look at what we made and say, “Nah, that’s not good enough.”
I am still pretty bad. But I AM better than I was fifteen years ago. That much I can say.
Is this where Hannah’s Dutch-ness will come in handy? Someone with roots in The Netherlands should be able to adjust to such images without much reach. Even if Canada is not a high ranking locale for the faerie realms.
Perhaps? Needs more windmills.
Canada? Darn right they do, boyo.
We got bunches of windmills. Just go west on Highway 403. There is a whole field of them just before Brantford.
Those aren’t windmills. Those are wind turbines. Windmills mill flour. Hence the name. And they’re usually more picturesque.
‘Welcome to our world, Hannah. Once you see it, your vision will never be the same again.’ ‘I’m blind.’ ‘You say that like it matters.’
“Sokath, his eyes opened!”
Hannah, just before meeting Phoebe.
A stag “fawning” over Phoebe.
I see what you did there…
I see what I did there too.
But was it intentional? lol
Should I be scared when the utter nonsense is shockingly accurate?
Well, we’re a hard bunch to scare.
Unless it’s the rage of Puck. Even the devil has run at the sight of that and experienced the consequences of being caught by her.
You may claim your art isn’t perfect but I don’t see any flaws. And if the word assist on my phone is any indication, AI has a long way to go before it can tell a compelling story.
AI will take a very long time before it can make good comedy. It’s terrible at that. That much is on my side. As for its ability to draw pretty girls, though, I can’t hold a candle to it.
Opa GINGHAM style!
I approve of this. Heartily.
I couldn’t describe it better myself.
It’s weird that I think an A.I. bot wrote a better sales pitch for my app than I did.
AI is very good at writing sales pitches and ad copy because it’s been heavily trained on the sales pitches and ad copy that crowd the interwebs. It has the language and cadence down.
I buy that. And it’s MUCH better.
When an eagle sits like that, it involuntarily tightens its claws on the branch, log, wire, arm, etc. so it will not have to spend much energy to hold on. It has to spend muscle power to let go. I think that Daphne has 8 1-inch long hole in her arm right now.
She’s made of tough stuff.
Dude, you have a privacy policy? Seems odd to me. Is it because of local laws (including the national stuff) or just being proactive?
One of the ‘fun’ parts of running a fully independent website is that you need to abide by various international laws concerning websites. One such law is the fact that all sites must have a privacy policy. Failure to do means that your provider may shut your site down.
A new ‘thou shalt’ law gets passed every year or so. It always keeps you on your toes. Many of them come from the EU.