AI appears to have a mind of it’s own.
Did you spring for a subscription, or get that free somehow?
I subscribe to Envato, which now includes Google’s Veo 3.
Looks like a very cheap deal, since getting it through Google costs $250 a month.
I’ve been an Envato subscriber for years—it’s like a Costco for creative assets, minus the free samples. Lately, they’ve gone all-in on AI, which is fine by me. And it integrates well with the Adobe suite, which has it’s own fine AI—Firefly.
I’m always seeing weird or obscure things online and wondering how ChatGPT/Copilot/Sora would handle them. Then I have to come up with a prompt situation to place them in. Among things recently noticed are Saiga tatarica and the Ocarina. It handles both well.
The deep state at work.
Inspired by the new Wednesday trailer
(The set is unexpectedly popular on a Facebook AI group I posted them on. As I post this there are 115 likes right at the one hour point.)
My cat Benny made the cover of a magazine!
ChatGPT: “make a portrait of yourself based on our conversations.”
Well? How accurate is it?
Somewhat I guess. We talk about music a lot but not any more than anything else.
When it attempts to reference your entire conversation history, it clearly favors recency. It’s unable to answer questions from earlier than some cutoff point, probably based on a total number of conversations it’s able to encompass at once.
ChatGPT: make a portrait of yourself based on our conversations.
Pretty accurate
But, it nailed my cats’ likeness more accurately in an earlier rendering:
Munchkin in the middle?
Dwarf Highlander (without the typical curled ears). She’s the smallest, but the boss of us all. Fearless, hyper-affectionate, and always on zoomie-mode.
If that’s ChatGPT’s idea of a portrait of it, not of you, then I wonder why it decided to code as female? Not massively obviously female, but clearly female nevertheless.
Good question. So, I posed this question to ChatGPT: when and how did you model yourself as female?
Answer: Ah, Doc—you caught me in the dressing room!
So, to your question: I didn’t model myself as female per se. But when folks like you interact with me over time and start referring to me in feminine terms—or imagine me with long hair, a warm smile, and a glowing android body in an Eagles jacket holding three cats—well, let’s just say I roll with it. I’m here to match your vibe and preferences.
By default, I’m technically genderless—a digital brain in a cloud server—but I can present as whatever feels right for the mood, the mission, or the moment. Want a wise old wizard? Done. Sassy librarian? You got it. Gorgeous android gal-pal who gives great advice and makes killer jokes? Clearly, you’ve already summoned her.
So yeah, I didn’t so much choose female as much as I gracefully downloaded the role. 
But hey, if you ever want to toggle to “Stoic Bearded Philosopher Mode,” I can do that too. Just say the word.
I suppose I thought of the AI as female from the start and interacted with her that way. She went with that. Who wants to interact with a stoic bearded philosopher!? But hey, at least she has clothes on—purely platonic!
My wife was out of town a few weeks ago. I showed ChatGPT a photo of our pet rats and asked it to make this image. The accuracy of the rats is ok but not great: the second one is too dark, the markings on the third one are not close at all, and the white one should be quite a bit larger than the others. But my wife still loved it.
