Tag: ai images

AI Images in WordPress.com?

Earlier today I inserted an image into a post using the wordpress.com image tag thing. “/img”. 99% of the time I just paste in a link to an image on Flickr and the post editor embeds the photo through magic or something. The other 1% of the time I pull the images off of my phone. This morning though I used the tag and saw something new. There’s an option to have the built in wordpress.com AI thing generate an image for you.

I figured I’d try it out today. I asked it to generate an image of a Jedi Knight petting a kitten while a blues band plays in the background. Success, I guess?

Let’s try another one. This time I’ll add the instructions before I generate the image… how about this:

Generate an image of a hockey player using his stick to fight off a zombie attack at a fast food restaurant

Let us see the results………

Huh… okay… I guess it decided on its own that one of the zombies should also be a hockey player. Everyone appears to be skating without actually wearing skates, though why they would have to skate at a fast food joint is unknown. Is the guy in the back living or just a newly turned zombie. Also, what’s the deal with the teeth on the zombie on the left? Does the AI think that zombies have different teeth than the humans they used to be? That does not compute.

Okay, so there’s a nice little feature that I will only ever use ironically. Okay. I guess.

One Year

We lost my mother one year ago today. After years and years of dementia she was finally free of all of her physical pain and mental confusion. Would she see it as release the way we hope she would? I have no idea.

I got to spend a little time with my father tonight. He was mostly okay, but he’s having an annoying, persistent health issue of his own that flared up quite a bit yesterday and sent him briefly to the ER. He’s fine, he just needs to do what the doctors tell him to do. When he does, he improves. He just doesn’t do it enough. Insert the frustrated sigh here. 

Now that I am home I have spent the last 15-20 minutes asking Google Bard to generate images of Jedi Knights in goofy situations like being a contestant on The Bachelor, riding a tiger, or watching a baseball game. I feel like I’ve found my new favorite internet hobby.

No music progress today. It’s getting close to bed time and I haven’t accomplished anything. Well… I picked off a few things at work today, which was nice. Just no musical accomplishments, that’s all. There is also a zombie movie that I want to watch tonight so that I can listen to a podcast discussing it on the drive to work tomorrow. 

So many things to do.