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An AI-generated advent calendar

In the spirit of utter holiday weirdness, I have made an interactive AI-generated advent calendar!

Image descriptions by GPT-3, illustrations by Pixray.

Go try it out!

The calendar itself, and descriptions of all the images behind the doors, are at the link above. This is a still screenshot showing "AI Weirdness Advent Calendar 2021" and some of the closed doors.ALT

So I’ve been experimenting with Pixray Swirl, which was originally a mod of Pixray that would let you generate swirling pixel art according to an internet-trained neural net’s interpretations of your requests.

I found parameters that let me take epic journeys instead.

Here’s “Apocalyptic landscape by Lisa Frank”

A landscape with burnt-out towers, burnt-out houses, and flames. The color palette is pastel, there are rainbows everywhere, and huge purple quadrupeds stalk the landscape among the occasional skull. ALT

And “Straight trail leading into a jelly landscape made of jello”

A vivid green and red landscape with wobbly jelly-like bushes and a straight trail leading into the horizon between brown mountains. The camera immediately veers away from the road and into the mountains, which have lots more jelly formations and, eventually, a giant jam jar.ALT

(it is kind of hard to steer, and the AI totally disregards any information in the image itself like a path, in favor of zooming in on the exact coordinate you specify.)

I like this one, “The misty volcanoes of dinosaur country”

A green misty landscape scrolls by. Each pointy triangle is either a smoking volcano or the head of a old-timey iguanadon-looking dinosaur. Often the features oscillate between the two. The perspective is all over the place.ALT

(the exact line and scaling between dinosaur and volcano is itself a bit misty but that’s okay)

TryPixray Swirlyourself!

For more, check out the post at AI Weirdness!

Neural net generated food items to enjoy

Pixray generating “View from the end of the Thanksgiving Table”

Demo here: https://pixray.gob.io/text2pixel/

Pixelated scene with brown and orange balls of food (with the occasional green and yellow) on white tablecloths. A crowd of people look on in the background, and the landscape falls away to rolling hills with autumn leaves. It is both comforting and highly disconcerting.ALT
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