The Blog Monster Meets Nessie

 

I worked from home today, and on my morning break Travalon and I went down to the dock. Look what we saw!

You don't usually see one pelican by itself, but it was swimming around just off our dock. When we came out onto the dock, it flew away. Then we saw some blue-winged teals.

In the distance there were some northern shovelers.

Tonight Travalon and I went to the crystal shop on State Street for their customer appreciation party. They had free vegan food (perfect for a Friday night in Lent) and little gift bags that contained a crystal sticker, a couple of small crystals, matches, and a tea light candle. We did buy some more crystals, and Travalon bought a very cool journal, since (like me) he goes through journals pretty quickly.

Last night I tried Dall-E3 to create more artificial intelligence blog monsters. It's now part of Chat-GPT (in French, "Cat, I farted"), and the blog monster it came up with is similar to the ones Canva came up with, blue and cuddly-looking, but even cuter. I have some ethical issues with this, because surely AI stole a real artist's vision for a monster, but I have to say that AI was incredibly consistent. Here is the result of the cue: "Draw me a blog monster."

Then I tried, "Draw me a blog monster saying 'Blog!'"

The monster seems to have lost a tooth, but otherwise it is the same as the first one. I had heard Dall-E3 has more trouble if you give it a more complicated prompt, so we came up with, "Draw me a blog monster playing the bagpipes while sailing on Loch Ness." And this is what we got.

This is actually quite amazing. Still the same monster, although for some reason it has now acquired a nose. It's not actually sailing but rowing; still, that is a small quibble. I like the Loch Ness monster in the background - it looks like the monster is summoning the monster! That is the power of music. Having taken a boat ride on Loch Ness myself, I can confirm that it is this beautiful, with mountains around it. The only thing that's missing (and it would make the picture too busy to add it) is the ruins of Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness, and fair enough, we could be facing the other shore. So all my readers who are too shy to draw their own rendition of the Blog Monster can feel free to send me a prompt to get AI to draw this blog monster in some ridiculous situation. Let's see if we can confuse Dall-E3.

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