emortalcoil

Random note: It takes (me) about 6 hours to manually braid a cord that's about 35" long. Disregarding cost of material and assuming minimum wage for labor, that means the cord is theoretically worth about $90. Somehow, I don't think anyone is going to pay that kind of cash for a bit under a yard of cotton cord, even if it is hand-made. Especially since it's probably possible to buy something similar machine-made at about a tenth of that price, if not cheaper. What then, is the point? The point is that I like making things. And I believe this is a better use of my time than doom-scrolling on social media, which, for me, would probably leave me with little more than nausea and a headache.

GIGO....if a generative AI search engine uses the entire internet as its data set, expect that the answers it gives to any question posed will have *something* wrong about it. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/

The experiments with AI continue: Almost always when the DA AI is asked to build something with a human in it, the person ends up with extra fingers/toes if not an extra arm/head/what have you. Or the proportions are glaringly off. Turns out it does the same thing with animals. The prompt for this image is "Friendly dog holding a huge stick". For the moment, forget about the fact that the jaw seems to have the stick *behind* it on the right side...I'm not sure what's going on with that left foreleg. It's like a small, extra paw is growing out of it. Of course, the AI should be given credit for trying to show the dog holding the stick in this. The same prompt also created an image that interprets "holding" either has "levitating" or "stuck to the holding entity with super glue...or something":