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The Middleman

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Beware Google’s AI answers

So, I bought a Synology Network Attached Storage RAID and I was setting it up.  The hard drives were making a rhythmic thumping noise for some reason.  I suspected it may have been because I upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 32GB.  I typed the following into Google to search and see if anyone else had a similar issue:

“Sunology DS1821+ drives thumping like heartbeat with RAM upgrade”

The first response was Google’s AI that said something like “The reason Synology DS1821+ drives thump like a heartbeat when you upgrade the RAM is… (blah, blah, blah something ridiculous that is obviously incorrect if you know anything about computers.)”

The problem was that the AI took what I wrote and assumed it was true.  I didn’t know if it was true.  I was searching google to find out.  Nothing turned up in the search and after a few tests on the hardware, I found that the RAM upgrade wasn’t the issue.

Be careful with AI.  It makes assumptions.  In this case it was easy to spot, next time who knows.  Double check everything it says.

Twisted Lies

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I’m posting this AI art I created today, because I’m thinking about the children in Springfield Ohio who are afraid to go to school because of bomb threats.  We need less lying made-up culture-war nonsense, and more discussion about the future.

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Mysterious Stranger

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Looking back at some of my earliest AI renders and scrounging thru the thousands of rejected varriations, I’ve been finding several interesting pieces.  This was a test image created when Midjourney was developing a “remaster” feature two years ago.  It’s a variation on the second image I ever created, re-rendered using a later Midjourney model… maybe version 3 or 4, I’m not sure.  Of course that newer version is now old and instead of seeing the improvement in the technology I’m looking at this render with new eyes and seeing it for what it is.  I love the texture and contrast of the whole thing so I fixed up the composition and re-did the color correction.

Personally I’m getting less excited by the newest versions of Midjourney.  The development seems to be barreling toward pure photographic realism, losing all the interesting artistic textures.  I’m going to have to try to find ways to add additional prompts to get some of the abstract goodness back in current version 6.1.

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Drippy Seasons

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I didn’t tell the machine to subdivide the frame and create four images that suggest spring, summer, fall, and winter.  It just did it.  That’s the nature of the machine.  It’s like roulette.  Ya get what ya get.

I did ask for it to be drippy…

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A Light Breeze

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I had a different art piece to post today because tonight is the Presidential debate, but I think I’ll leave that one for another day. This image I created is more calm and centered and that’s what I think we’ll need after tonight.

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