
Absurdity Day
National Absurdity Day is celebrated on November 20th. It is an unofficial “fun” holiday, encouraging people to be aware—and celebrate—the illogical and nonsensical aspects of everyday life.
If AI is essentially a prediction machine—grasping for the most likely next pixel, word or letter—how can it possibly create anything new? I am not going to answer that question …

National Absurdity Day is celebrated on November 20th. It is an unofficial “fun” holiday, encouraging people to be aware—and celebrate—the illogical and nonsensical aspects of everyday life.

Die große Kröte war keine echte Kröte. Das musste sie auch nicht sein. Sie war die Art von Wesen, die in den nach Spinnweben riechenden Ecken kindlicher Albträume lauern. In den nur vage in Erinnerung gebliebenen Warnungen alter Geschichten. Sie erzählen alle vom Gleichen: Dem Gefressenwerden.

AI – of course AI – says, GPT is revolutionizing image generation, particularly with the release of state-of-the-art models like GPT Image 2.0: It promises near-perfect prompt adherence, advanced visual reasoning, and the ability to generate and accurately render complex text directly inside images.

Sorry if I seem fixated on this … could you do another version in the style that YOU like best? No matter how outlandish it might seem, don’t even bother if I understand it – just let rip about Lost Places from “AI Claude’s” point of view, will you?

Could you rewrite its just a little and make it more neutral this time, less theatrical and philosophic, delivering the facts with maybe only a minimal hint of irony, barely noticeable at best — thank you

Could you write me blog post about why we find Lost Places so intriguing and to what lengths people go to see one and what the most far-out Lost Places currently are? Please …
Style: Intrigued, doing some guesswork now and then, not giving the impression that for EVERYTHING

Certainly not artificial—yet distinctly humanoid. There are some genuinely interesting trends, alongside a number of rather clichéd visualizations—many of which can be found on this very website. A glance at the NightCafé homepage reveals hundreds of highly polished, yet often formulaic images. It raises an interesting question: is this aesthetic

Oh the many ways I’ve tried to tell my Image Creator, that cars on a road usually go in different directions – in one lane they come up towards the viewer, in the other we usually see them from behind because they are … AI does not seem to know

Glossy but Faulty: The Illusion of Perfection At first glance, AI-generated images dazzle with their polished aesthetics—vibrant colors, intricate details, and styles that mimic famous artists or futuristic visions. Yet, the closer you look, the more flaws emerge: distorted hands, unnatural lighting, or surreal landscapes that defy physics. The pursuit

Monkey Day, celebrated annually on December 14, is an unofficial global holiday dedicated to appreciating monkeys, apes, and other primates. It is widely used by activists and wildlife organizations to raise awareness about primate conservation, protest the exotic pet trade, and advocate for ethical animal rights. If you disapprove of zoos,