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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

Bonus: There was no 2020 Botober?

Trolling chatbots with made-up memes

ChatGPT, Bard, GPT-4, and the like are often pitched as ways to retrieve information. The problem is they'll "retrieve" whatever you ask for, whether or not it exists.

Tumblr user @indigofoxpaws sent me a few screenshots where they'd asked ChatGPT for an explanation of