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Botober 2024

Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October!

Botober 2024, art prompts generated by very tiny language models 	1.	Collide Loopstorm 	2.	OMG Power 	3.	Evil Gold 	4.	Song of the Booty 	5.	Great Flake 	6.	Popchop 	7.	Deathmop 	8.	Fuzzy Night 	9.	Holy ship 	10.	Distracting Sphere 	11.	Tart of Death 	12.	Hold Mouse 	13.	Sprange 	14.	Womp mittens 	15.	Snuggle features 	16.	Cabled sins 	17.	Bogma 	18.	Ruinstrees 	19.	Hellbrawk 	20.	Scarlet Chaos 	21.	Grandma’s Spritches 	22.	Low Fuzzy Feats 	23.	Bars* 	24.	Hallowy Maples 	25.	Hobbats 	26.	The Snawk 	27.	Garbage Plant 	28.	The Shark Knight 	29.	Cinder Frankenstein 	30.	Handy Panda 	31.	Goddass

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.

Me: Please generate a magic eye 3D stereo image of a dolphin. ChatGPT: Generates a highly detailed image in psychedelic colors and repeated patterns - with the dolphin not hidden in a 3D stereo effect, but plainly, immediately visible. ChatGPT's caption: "I've created a magic eye 3D stereogram for you. If you relax your vision and look through the image, you should be able to see a hidden 3D image of a dolphin. Enjoy discovering it!"

I've seen people try making Magic Eye-style