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Artificial Intelligence

Paint Along With Frida #1: Getting Started

Looking at the AI chatbots (ChatGPT) it was very apparent that they were pretty good at ideation and could generate creative output if prompted in fine detail - i.e. a reasonable 3,000-word short story could be generated from a mere 2,000-words of prompting.

Image generation is quite a different matter. First off, it is slow, really damn slow. Working with square 512px images, it can take 30 steps (or iterations) to create something that starts to look decent - with each step on my moderately powerful PC taking a second and a half. Add some upscaling and it's definiately 'have a cigarette or cup of coffee while it works' territory.

Secondly, you don't get to have a drawn out conversation setting the full context, like you do with the generative text AIs. You get a couple of prompts (one positive, what you want, and one negative, what you don't want), maybe 100-words and see what you get.

It's remarkable how, with such limited


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Gigs

Manorlogz

Three poems filmed by 4frontTV for their Manorlogz project. They don't seem to have been active now since 2013 - I hope they have saved their output somewhere as it would have been a great archive; this was a most excellent project.

Devotee was broadcast on Christmas day kind of like an alternative Christmas message.

Far Too Many was my very first performance poem, so I'm particularly pleased to have such a good video recording of it.

Plaything was apparently a little too risque for their tastes!

Manorlogz:Devotee Manorlogz

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