ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
#selfpromo again! :)
Woowoo!
The Klara Trilogy is done! https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/the-klara-trilogy-is-done/
#AIArt somewhat, #midjourney
#AIArt #selfpromo
A pre-announcement until I can get to a proper computer (Jury Duty, amirite?): all three parts of the Klara Trilogy (story by me, art by me and #midjourney , narration and videography by Karima Hoisan) are now on the YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeRIZzYcpxSfVqEsM_GlxxBdKS-isdJuf
#Midjourney pretends to prove the Pythagorean Theorem! Endearingly! #AIArt
Little Imaginary Diagrams https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/little-imaginary-diagrams/
Just hit my 25,000th #MidJourney image. #AIArt #GetALifeEhWhat
#AIArt geekery
I think we've maybe figured out the #fingers thing.
The current AI tools ( #midjourney and all ) can deal relatively accurately with quantities of one or two, occasionally three.
Most things that we care about in images are either one or two (heads, eyes, wings, headlights), or a larger number that we don't care about being accurate (tree limbs, feathers, grass).
The commonly-appearing things that we care deeply about the number of, and that come in numbers greater than two, are... fingers.
The network can deal with (almost always) producing one nose and two eyes and two legs, etc. If we ask it for a dozen eggs, it might do eight, or fifteen, but that's fine, at least it doesn't look horrifying.
But six or seven fingers? Ewwww! It immediately looks horribly wrong.
(And when it does three arms or legs, because two is also a little challenging, that's also ewww.)
So there ya go, simple explanation... :)
AI Art
Gotcher new YA Urban Fantasy Action Heroine right here... #midjourney #AIArt
AIArt legal stuff mostly
I posted! Yet more on #Midjourney and general #AIArt issues of #copyright and so on.
Some light infringement? https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/some-light-infringement/
I posted! Mostly comparing nine different pictures of Hemingway's Paris in the rain, produced with various different versions of the #Midjourney engine. #AiArt
Hemingway, by Midjourney https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/hemingway-by-midjourney/
Legal aspects of #AIArt
I wrote a tiny piece:
https://paper.wf/ceoln/ai-art-tools-the-way-s-forward
based on a longer and chattier blog entry I did awhile back, on the possible way(s) forward for the fraught question of the #copyright issues around #AIArt tools like #midjourney and #StableDiffusion . Comments and discussion most welcome!
Some stuff I've been doing in #Midjourney lately. #AIArt
Free Desktop Wallpapers! https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/free-desktop-wallpapers/
The Devil is a Bunny #midjourney #AIArt
When only the very best will do: SSHTNNY SMIRIING! #midjourney #AIArt
Prominent Delirium Cultist #midjourney #aiArt
Oops hm! Trying again!
In Eden #midjourney #aiart
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/497250385849107707
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
