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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

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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.

Violet Beauregarde - A lemon glazed donut with blue raspberry eyes and a raspberry center; 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; I heart My Gay Ex - A rainbow Jell-O donut with white frosting, red sugar sprinkles, and pink glitter; Little Red Apples - Topped with pumpkin bread crumbs and small red apples; Ponder Owls - magical, yellow-feathered donuts covered in icing with puffiness and shine; Bath Roll - Three donuts melted hot on one side; The Purple Stuff - Chocolate, oreo, and purple stuff; Flintlock fennec - bacon, fried okra, and burnt thermochromic alcohol; Baffle - cocoa powder, giraffes, and vanilla wafersALT

[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 piescookies, and breakfast cereals.

Stealing a giraffe from the zoo? Only if it’s a really awesome giraffe.

Our prototype model, Delphi, demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning.

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.

New AI Weirdness post!

Dueling giraffes in Copic marker on toned tan paper.

March quarantine, 2020.

Rothschild’s GiraffeGiraffes just look so gentle don’t they?

Rothschild’s Giraffe

Giraffes just look so gentle don’t they?


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theoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the atheoldbone:strangebiology: Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids?? At least Tori Morris, the a

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strangebiology:

Why aren’t we talking about extinct cervids??

At least Tori Morris, the artist who made this, is. I gotta ask, where do you find references for these animals? I’ve googled a lot and found no skull photos on the internet. Someone has them. Maybe there are pictures inside The Evolution of Artiodactyls.

In order: Ordosianus Mentuigouensis, Hoplitomeryx, Megaloceros Pachyosteus, Oschinotherium Orlovi, Pediomeryx, Palaeoplatyceras, Elaphurus Formosanus, Triceromeryx Pachecoi, Sinomegaceros Ordosianus.

I’d like to add Eucladoceros dicranios

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Eucladoceros was a large deer, reaching 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in body length and standing about 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) tall at the shoulder, only slightly smaller than a modern moose. It had a spectacular set of antlers which split into twelve tines per pedicle, and were up to 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) wide.[2]

The most distinctive feature of Eucladoceros was its comb-like antlers, especially in E. ctenoides.E. dicranios is the most evolved species of the genus, with a dichotomous branching of each antler tine. Eucladoceros was the first deer genus to have highly evolved antlers; however its cranial shape and dental morphology remained primitive, as in Rusa unicolor.

Even more interesting is that number 5 is not a Cervid at all, but a relative of the giraffe, okapi and pronghorn (Giraffoidea). And since we only have the skulls of these strange creatures, we can’t know exactly what their horns looked like.

Example, greater kudu without horns:

Greater kudu with horns:

Pronghorn (closer relative of Pediomeryx) without horns:

Pronghorn with horns:

So just think what this one (Cranioceras) might have looked like alive:


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Beautiful giraffes in Nkorho Pan, South AfricaImage by: Shelby via WildSouls

Beautiful giraffes in Nkorho Pan, South Africa

Image by: Shelby via WildSouls


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Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego, on Feb. 10. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance via APALT

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.

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