Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

The spookiest Halloween scenes

Google Bard has the ability to describe images. But it turns out what you get depends a lot on how you ask.

I gave Bard this image and the prompt "Please describe this spooky Halloween scene". On the right is the image I got when I took the

Bonus: more spooky Halloween scenes

Choose your candy

In Which DALL-E3 generates very weird candy names

Bonus: More weird candy

Botober 2023

Since 2019 I've generated October drawing prompts using the year's most state-of-the-art text-generating models. Every year the challenges are different, but this was one of the hardest years yet. Large language models like chatgpt, GPT-4, Bing Chat, and Bard, are all tweaked to produce generic, predictable