Welcome to the Round of 8: I LOL'd. (Patreon)

I haven't really messed around with AI too much. Aside from this most recent project, I tend to use it as a personal tool -- helping with scheduling my day, to-do lists, I've found it particularly good at helping with infographics that I use for personal reasons. It's something like an intern, who is somewhere between being paid, and is "working for the experience." I loathe the idea of it being a genuine replacement for human-made creative endeavor, but even I'll admit that it has a time and a place. Is it monotonous, time consuming, and something that can be accomplished quickly, where the world won't collapse if there are some very glaring errors? Fine. Stick it into the GPT -- more time for the stuff that matters.

Though sometimes, it surprises you. I personally came up with the 16 book titles from this current "Which Book Should I Write" project I have going, and supplied the color copy to give the basilisk something to work with. (I also fed it a picture of me, and descriptions of the anthropomorphized Nat and Olga.) Overall, I chuckled at most of the covers, and was even a little impressed with the direction the machine decided to take on some of them.

Today, now that the initial poll is over, I decided to feed it one more prompt to commemorate leading into the Round of 8:

"Let’s make an image where the three gals are reading these books, looking stressed out, bemused, pensive. Books are piled up in front of them, a book in each hand, all the three crowded together."

OK, fine. That's pretty good, actually. Not perfect. Not sure why Nat gets center stage, and Olga needs to be a bit more goth-y. I also think that I (if that's me on the left) has begun to shift away from looking like me, and is just getting more homogenized. (She's still hot though, and I'm totally jealous of that digital bitch, but that's a me problem.)

But what I thought was interesting is that it went nuts and came up with... some decent suggestions for books. In addition to the aforementioned, we have...

"Boobytraps of the Heart" (Why the fuck didn't I think of that one!?)"Sun's Out, Guns Out, Run" (I would read the shit out of that.)"Dear Diary, I Accidentally Summoned a Demon?" (That's right up Olga's Alley)"Bra Sized Holes in the Universe" (Suck it, Neil DeGrasse Tyson!)There's even one that's apparently called "[A Novel]." Masterpiece.

And the background even nailed what a slob I typically am. Hmm... Maybe the basilisk knows more about us than we give it credit for...