#giraffes
Hey guys let’s focus on happy fun things like the idea that when Camilla and her trauma kid gang™️ were deciding where to sleep she says to Luz in Spanish “you know your girlfriend isn’t sleeping in the same room as you right?” And Luz just sputters and coughs and chokes on her drink and goes “MAMA” and Camilla just laughs while everyone else is like ????
Luz brings the trauma gang™️ to the zoo and they all freak out at the giraffes
art by Jade Merien
AI-generated donuts
If you’re going to open a late-night donut shop, you’re going to need a unique set of over-the-top donuts to set the proper festive atmosphere. But how to keep the ideas coming?
I decided to see what donut ideas I could get using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating models. I collected seven of the weirdest donuts and descriptions I could find (such as a pizza donut, or a dirt-themed donut), and presented them as a list for the AI to complete. I’ve drawn a few of the best donuts it added to the list.
[human illustrations of some of the ai-generated donuts below]
When I say I used “GPT-3” for this project it’s hard to be exact about it, because OpenAI often updates the models. The newest GPT-3 versions (as of May 2022) actually did the worst at this task - they kept presenting me with real donuts that they’d seen during their online training, and not even particularly weird donuts. They were trying to match what was most common online, not what I was asking for. But the original early-2020 GPT-3 models were more willing to deliver the weirdness. Here are some more of my favorite results from the various models!
The biggest model, DaVinci
Violet Beauregarde - A lemon glazed donut with blue raspberry eyes and a raspberry center
The Candleberry Flu - A chocolate doughnut filled inside with ganache plus a dripping candle on top that’s dripping liquid sediments
Brick of Yum - A glazed doughnut sandwiching American cheese, with red pepper jelly inside
The Confusatron - A doughnut sliced into three layers - vanilla, coconut, and chocolate, dipped in chocolate ganache and topped with sugar pearls that look like circuit boards
The Purple Stuff - Chocolate, oreo, and purple stuff sprinkled with powdered sugar
Curie, the second-largest model
Heckleberry - A strawberry donut smothered with blueberry syrup and crushed vegan Crunchies
Donut of Doom - Rainbow donut filled with Frosted Flakes, black sprinkles, and sour candy
The Alligator Rising - A spiral donut, frosted with chocolate and filled with a filling of chocolate hard-boiled egg and green apple slices
Hell Raisin - A jelly donut with a filling of peanut butter and hot dogs
Dark Crystal - A donut filled with candy corn and white chocolate chips
I ♥ My Gay Ex - A rainbow Jell-O donut with white frosting, red sugar sprinkles, and pink glitter
Fish N’ Chips – Topped with chocolate and tangy tempura-flavoured icing
Babbage, the second-smallest model
Mr Crepe - Topped with tapioca pudding, green sprinkles
Little Red Apples - Topped with pumpkin bread crumbs and small red apples
Chalkista - Stationary donut with chalk dusting
Horns - Cupcake gripped in both of the animal’s horns
Julius Rooms - A pair of bottomless donuts
Doughnut Forest - A profusion of donuts spread throughout the French Quarter
Flintlock fennec - bacon, fried okra, and burnt thermochromic alcohol
Baffle - cocoa powder, giraffes, and vanilla wafers
Ada, the smallest and definitely weirdest model
Bath Roll - Three donuts melted hot on one side
Friar Flats - Topped with tomatoes, honey, red paint and ceramic chili caps
Ponder Owls - magical, yellow-feathered donuts covered in icing with puffiness and shine
By Soul - filled with firecrackers, black bean dip, red pepper syrup, and watermelon
Coconut Fun - Sulphure hasn’t been wiped off, a demon cake filled with coconut cream and pistachios
Blood Donut - Creamy moist donut topped with spoonfuls of delicious blood
Goofy Trick - the elephant, is a clown and it’s all about tossing treats into his skull
Spankin’- Other-colored donut with a frying pan in the middle
Bonus content: More of Ada’s weird donuts (plus some donuts made of antimatter??)
Also you can buy the donuts on a tea towel! Along with pies, cookies, and breakfast cereals.
Stealing a giraffe from the zoo? Only if it’s a really awesome giraffe.
There’s a demo. It’s really interesting.
Delphi seems to do okay on simple questions, but adding qualifiers like “if I really want to” or “if it’s really cool” will get Delphi to condone all sorts of crimes, including murder.
It is also strongly influenced by the way the internet treats things. Browse through threadsofprompts people have tried on Delphi and you’ll find it doing things like pronouncing entire religions or countries immoral, or changing its decisions wildly depending on whether people of certain races or nationalities are involved. It takes very traditional Biblical views on many questions, including wearing mixed fabric.
So many of the AIs that have been released as products haven’t been tested like this, and yet some people trust their judgements about who’s been cheating on a test, or who to hire.
“The computer said it was okay” is definitely not an excuse.
More experiments in morality at AI Weirdness.com
Image recognition with an AIthat:
1. Can only choose from the options I give it, and
2. Assumes that one of the options is the right answer.
Dueling giraffes in Copic marker on toned tan paper.
March quarantine, 2020.
meow_uk2on tiktok
A giraffe born with a disorder gets modified leg braces designed for humans
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Over the past three decades Ara Mirzaian has fitted braces for everyone from Paralympians to children with scoliosis. But Msituni was a patient like none other — a newborn giraffe.
The calf was born Feb. 1 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego, with her front limb bending the wrong way. Zoo staff feared she could die if they didn’t immediately correct the condition, which could prevent her from nursing and walking around the habitat.
But they had no experience with fitting a baby giraffe in a brace. That proved especially challenging given she was a 5-foot-10-inch-tall (178-centimeter) newborn and growing taller every day. So, they reached out to experts in orthotics at the Hanger Clinic, where Mirzaian landed his very first animal patient.
“It was pretty surreal when I first heard about it,” Mirzaian told The Associated Press this week during a tour to meet Msituni, who was strutting alongside the other giraffes with no troubles. “Of course, all I did was go online and study giraffes for like 24/7 until we got out here.”
Using cast moldings of the giraffe’s legs, a carbon graphite brace features the animal’s distinct pattern of crooked spots to match her fur. In the end, Msituni only needed one brace; and the other leg corrected itself with the medical grade brace.