These New Yorker Cartoons Do Not Exist

I trained LookingGlassAI on 100+ New Yorker Magazine comic panels. Enjoy the results in this thread. I like how cubist some of these cartoons turned out. Like those one-line drawing exercises.

These Birds Do Not Exist

I trained an AI on public domain bird illustrations from old books. Ornithologists and birders, I'd LOVE it if you were able to still ID some of these weirdos. I'll share some of the "normal" results first, the ones that kinda sorta look like real birds. Since birds often appear in the context of flowers, leave, and branches, there were often some odd blends of all three. I'm surprised it didn't occur more often, to be honest. It's pretty good at knowing leaves and wings go together. The beaks and heads give it trouble though.

In this thread: I trained an AI on interior design photos. None of these photos had any humans. And yet these ghosts haunt my outputs. A small percentage of the outputs were dark, spooky living rooms. AI seems to misunderstand that some rooms are dark because it's night while others just have dark walls. The result is a liminal lighting from the nether zone.

We're in Rochester!

That's... A lot of historical archives. This might take a minute.

Thread: Common instances of passive voice in rules text that can be clearer with more direct voice.

But first: Why do we so often write rules in passive voice? Outlining the "laws" of our game feels like a very formal position with an of aloof authority. Avoid that voice. "THE PLAYER"

Question any instance of "the player" in a sentence. If you are addressing one player, address them directly in the first sentence of the paragraph and use "you" thereafter.

"If you are the first player, you may X, Y, then Z. If you X, see next page."