Silly Sunday -Just Chatting

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Visitors coming and going Chez Tidalscribe, but here’s something to think about while I’m busy…

While I was away I was idling away a few minutes on my phone and was surprised to get on ChatGPT. I had no intention of asking it to write my novel for me, but I would just see if it would make a picture of flowers and bees, perhaps a picture of a woman enjoying gardening ( age inserted ) – doesn’t look like me.

How about a beach hut, me at my beach hut, ask for purple hair and round down my age...

She looks fun, but it’s not me.

I’ll ask Chatterbox how to use my own photos… oil painting that looks better than my real garden.

Now my nineties friend wants a painting of her garden and thinks I’m very clever… I tell her AI is the clever one.

This is fun, could be addictive…. I have so many photos I could transform into art.

Or I could become an avatar. This really is addictive, I could turn all my family into Avatars, all my local scenes into an art gallery…

BUT of course this is dream land and it comes with guilt. We’re all using electricity and The Cloud is not really fluffy white and Artificial Intelligence uses a lot more power and water for cooling… Not to mention the ethics of presenting ChatGPT’s words as your own. Chatting to real people, it seems people are using ChatGPT for all sorts of useful things; asking it questions instead of Googling information, writing reports…

The above is all I have done on ChatGPT, using my own photos, except the one of me…

A real drawing by a human boy, Alex.

Have you used ChatGPT, if so how? Is it any different from all the other tools we use on line to create our blogs etc?

43 thoughts on “Silly Sunday -Just Chatting”

  2. Haven’t used ChatGPT. I have tried Ideogram for creating images, though. On the whole, I haven’t been impressed, although I did use one for my music blog. I think I’m limited to two prompts (of 4 images each) per day on the free service. Not very exciting, really. And certainly not addictive.

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  3. Don’t you find, though, that when you type something into these AI engines, you never quite get out what you are expecting?
    I therefore think that there is a long-term role for humans – to be able to ask a question precisely enough that an AI engine can then be put to work to do something useful.
    I’ve only really used midjourney to create images. They’re pleasant enough but I soon got fed up.
    https://www.deviantart.com/misterbumpuk/gallery/88371398/ai-artwork

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  8. I used Nightcafe and Leonardo for image generation for about a year. I found most of the results to be flat, missing that spark of life in photograhy or “real art.” My biggest issue with AI is that because it used human produced words and images as its base, it contains and used all human frailties. It lies, it creates its own reality, it is full of prejudices, and it has opinions.

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  9. I used ChatGPT to write a story so I could compare it to my own human-brain version. It took the AI only seconds, while I beavered on mine for at least a week, on and off. But the AI story was kind of corny.

    I have used WordPress’s AI to create a couple of images for blog posts, and Canva’s AI to make portraits of some of the characters in some of my books. I am tempted more by the image capabilities, but recognize their limitations–a kind of false prettiness, and in the case of portraits, a sameness, especially for female faces. So I’m not likely to use AI all that much, and never again for writing.

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  10. I love the way you are using ChatGPT, Janet! I recently (within the past month) started using ChatGPT, and have found it to be a really helpful tool. I have used it for such things as (1) determining the best times to take certain medications, and what foods to avoid with certain medications; (2) Find detailed research references while looking into an event from 1975, such as newspaper reports, interviews, etc.; (3) Confirm false information being shared in a You Tube video; and (4) translating Russian writing on a porcelain plate, by simply taking a picture of the plate – it also told me how many were made, and what the value of it is! I have also played with photos, just as you were describing! My favorite was asking it to transform a picture of me into an ancient Egyptian woman, and it made me look Egyptian, for sure, with an emphasis on looking “ancient”! Ha! So, yes, I am enjoying using ChatGPT. It provides much deeper assistance than a simple web search.

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  11. I am so impressed with those pictures! I’ve never succeeded in making a picture with ChatGPT. Does the free version do that? I shall have to give it a try.

    I do use ChatGPT. AI is here to stay and I think it’s better to know something about it. I have used it for research and it’s very useful for outlining and making sense of a shed load of random notes for a blog post. It also helped greatly with structuring the three presentations I had to give this summer. I was trying not to spend too much time preparing them so that I could get on with penning my next book. There was still a lot of work to do to lick the presentations into shape, though!

    I have found it’s crucial to know your subject and fact check thoroughly, though, because AI does come up with a fair bit of nonsense… And like you, I am conscious of its huge consumption of resources. I would suggest just Googling things like opening times for your local takeaway and saving the AI for something more momentous.

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  12. My son introduced me to chatGPT but I haven’t really explored it. Partly because I am not sure how useful it might be so why bother? I think he also set up Google to use AI to answer questions and that has been quite useful – I get a summary rather than having to visit several websites but I am wary of how accurate it is.

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    1. Not old fashioned, a true creative. When photography was invented they probably worried people would stop painting. Lots of people seem to use it for reports and references, but who would want a refence that was not genuine human opinion!

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  14. Although I like your new Gravatar image, I am resisting AI fiercely. The few examples of inserting myself into AI images looked nothing like me, and I am becoming increasingly concerned about people using AI to write blog posts and create images that they then pass off as their own. Then the final nail in the coffin was when Keir Starmer praised ‘advances in AI’. When politicians are using it, it’s almost ‘Game Over’.

    Best wishes, Pete.

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  15. Janet, I have played around with ChatGPT a bit as I was curious about how it would “respond” to certain tasks. It has been surprising how quickly it has “learned” in my opinion. Of course, any keyword or question search I do these days online comes back with an AI summary of what I’ve asked, and I have at the very least found them to point me in the right direction…if it hasn’t provided what appears to be a totally complete answer. I love Alex’s (real!) drawing!

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  16. Yes Pete, few of us understand the bigger picture and just throw in ‘advances’ and ‘wonders in cancer treatment’ . Still, my blog has created plenty of comments so we bloggers are thinking more carefully than our leaders!

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