AI

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 …

Fiftirs retro sci-fi street scene - commuters, flying busses, drones

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.

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The Toad

The Toad was­n’t a real toad. It didn’t need to be. It was the kind of crea­ture that lurks in the damp cor­ners of child­hood night­mares, in the half-remem­bered warn­ings of old sto­ries.

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GPT Image Creation

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.

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Lost Places #3

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?

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Lost Places #2

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

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Lost Places #1

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 there

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AI Aesthetics

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

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Traffic – it’s a conundrum

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

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AI Image Generation

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

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International Monkey Day

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,

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