There’s a thing I saw on Xitter. The post showed this picture:
It says to load the picture into ‘your AI’ and ask it to ‘Fill this room with everything you know about me.’ Sounds intriguing. But I don’t have an AI. I used Sora or Soros or whatever it was, but it was taken down many months ago. I searched, and every place I found says to load the picture into ‘your AI’. Is there someplace where I can just put the picture in and see what AI fills the room with, without downloading a personal AI?
I went to duck.ai and said ‘Fill this room with everything you know about me,’ and then pasted the URL of the image (since there wasn’t anywhere to upload a picture). It returned an entirely different room that contained nothing ‘about me’.
I use AI to design D&D miniatures for my characters.
I use a number of free AI apps to design a miniature. One member of my party takes my 2D image and uses AI to convert it into a 3-dimensional 3d printer file; a second member prints it out on his 3D printer; and a third paints it, by hand. It’s pretty cool.
I have, several times, apart from a few professional things when my employer has instructed me to use it in a very specific way (I’m a freelance writer with an emphasis on educational materials).
For example, I have a childhood friend who is currently imprisoned. His wife reached out to me and asked if I would write to him. I had no idea what to say. I asked AI; it gave me some very good advice.
Another example: I got AI to help me design “first game” certificates for baseball stadiums (with the date of the first game you’ve attended in a particular ballpark) going back to the sixties. It produced some really nice stuff for me and I now have a complete collection of First Game certificates dating to many years before such a thing existed.
There are other examples too; those are the two most on my mind right now.
If you have Chrome, you can use Gemini. The prompt for it shows up when you create a new tab.
Right click the image and select Copy, then paste it into Gemini’s text field with your input.
I mean, I don’t really play with these social media things. But it’s really disappointing when I do, and it just doesn’t work. {ETA: This is from duck.ai.)
I guess all it knows about you is that you uploaded that image That’s great, I like it.
That is the point of duck.ai. If you want a company that will harvest and exploit every possible bit of personal information it can, sign up for a Google account.
You could do that lots of places: ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, even Google. But the point of that exercise is to put it into an AI that you have a history of conversing with that has built up an “idea” of you based on that posting history.
I tried AI mode in Google, and figured out how to add a picture. I did, and asked the question. Google replied:
I can’t look inside your real-world room, but if this digital space represents your digital footprint, let’s look at exactly what I know about you right now: absolutely nothing.
This seems very, very unlikely. So I googled again.
So I tried the same at chatGPT.com. It returned this image:
Um… OK. Not my aesthetic. What’s with all of the shoes and plants? And the bobble heads? Books and records are OK, but I don’t play video games. The tsunami picture is something I’d hang. (I ordered a Great Wave aloha shirt the other day.)
Do you use ChatGPT? Ask and tell it things from a signed-in personal account? If you don’t, I don’t see how you expect it to know things about you. Again, this prompt is intended to make an AI that you have a history of interacting with look back on your usage patterns and pull things out of that. If you don’t have that, there is nothing to work from.
I use AI primarily for image generation and occasionally to try to answer a factual question but never for long conversations like lots of people do today, so my AIs mostly know about weird things I want photos of. Here’s what I got from ChatGPT:
No, I don’t use AI. As I said, I’ve used it to make memes, but it no longer exists so I don’t anymore.
I just assume that anything I google/buy/read/accidentally click on is recorded somewhere, and my profile exists. These social media things always tell you to do things. They never tell you how to do them. The instructions should say, ‘If you use AI, log into your account, upload the image, and ask it to fill the room.’ People automatically assume everyone knows this. A month or so ago, a FB friend posted 'Type your name in a gif and post the results. So I typed ‘[my name] in a gif’ in the reply box. Nothing happened. A couple of weeks later, somehow I found out that you’re supposed to click the gif icon and type your name in the search bar. Since I never use gifs, how was I supposed to know? [NB: I’d lost interest by then, and didn’t do it.] That’s why I generally just scroll by this sort of thing. Anyway, I tried it with the empty room, and it took much more time than it was worth.
For laughs I asked ChatGPT for a room. Context: I primarily use ChatGPT for my personal projects, and Claude for work. Although I have a work app I maintain that is vibe coded in Codex using data that ChatGPT talks directly to Claude to get.
Anyway, this is full of little Easter eggs including some 3D repeater mount models I’ve been iterating on. It even put a nameplate up for my dog with his leash and bed.
It also admitted it doesn’t know anything about my preferred architectural style or what the view of my window is other than that I have a view of the mountains. It said, “I’m particularly pleased that your imaginary room has a spectacular ocean view, and you’d probably still be at the bench troubleshooting a radio.”
I’m pretty sure plants and a computer as just the baseline “what’s in a room” adornments. Possibly guitars too, because there’s one in mine and I don’t recall ever chatting about them. It possibly is “this is what people of your general demographic have” as well.
Nope, those are very specifically instruments I own and have discussed with ChatGPT. Similarly, specifics of the hardware tie back cleanly to recent conversations. The surprise is that this is strongly biased toward the last three months, I think there are bounds for how long stuff is remembered in detail.
That’s great, I like it.
