This is quite amusing. Thanks 
I also often wonder about this as a way to memorialize someone after their passing. Their “digital ghost” can keep on texting with you, sending you fake pics, etc.
I think there was a Black Mirror episode about that?
I could see maybe widowed parents wanting to use it to pretend like the other is still there, until the kid is old enough to understand death…
Anyway, one more mundane but intriguingly useful tool: AI-generated bookmarklets.
A bookmarklet is basically a “mod” to an existing webpage/website, like a little script that gets injected to add new features to a site or override some existing functionality. They used to be popular in the 2000s or so. Now AIs can trivially write even moderately complex ones.
Here’s an example from another thread: Is there a way to get a list of more than the top 24 posters in a thread? - #3 by Reply
That lists all the posters in a given SDMB thread, counts how many times they’ve posted, and points you to all their posts in that thread. It only took 2-3 prompts and a few minutes to make (with Gemini or Claude, I forget). It’s just a random example.
Elsewhere, I’ve used similar bookmarklets to do trivial data scrapes, like looking at a page full of monthly data with prev/next arrows, and having an AI write a bookmarklet to automatically page through all available years and download a CSV of it instead.
The Web is one of the last remaining open/viewable/modifiable forms of software we still have, and bookmarklets are a simple way to exploit that openness. Userscripts would be the more “official”, but more complex, way to do these. Bookmarklets are just drag-and-drop by contrast.
I’m sure this was already mentioned in some fashion but, even if you’re opposed to AI for “art”, image gen and manipulation can be useful for prototyping or brainstorming. Had an idea to put a silk plant behind my monitor to fill the pace and soften the grey corner. Before heading to the store or Amazon, it was trivial to upload a photo into Gemini and ask for a silk plant filling the corner to halfway up the exposed window. Actually it went high the first time but saying “reduce by 33%” got me where I was thinking. Still deciding but this makes it a heck of a lot easier to know what it’d be looking like.
Inna and I are thinking of painting the upstairs living room and, using the technique above by @Jophiel, are using Gemini and asking ‘what does this room look like if it were painted using Sherwin Williams SW1234 colored paint’.
Great idea! I didn’t stop to think I could tell it the brand’s actual color number.
Did it work? How close to the actual paint was its simulation? Can you tell it to do the same with different times of day and lighting conditions?
One more small but helpful thing: It’s pretty good at solving “tip of my tongue” forgetful moments, like “What is that movie / book / story / research topic / device where so and so did so and so?”
For anything moderately well known, this works MUCH better than a search engine or a naive Wikipedia search.
To be honest, we won’t know until we paint it, lol, but it’s pretty close. And yes, you can do different lighting situations.
Bitchin’ stereo & LP collection, man! 
Replace the plant with a horrifying writhing mass of giant silkworms.
In case you want to go in that direction.
Huh. You know, I can’t say that ever came up in my considerations for home office decor, but I can see the appeal. Passive income and all that. And plus, if I get enough of them they might just help block the glare from the window.
I mean, they could make a curtain.
This is not new.
In the short story “Trouble Down at Tudsleigh”, first published in 1935, PG Wodehouse relates the (fictional) story of Freddie Widgeon attempting to woo the attractive April Carroway at a country retreat. Freddie learns that April is a big fan of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and to impress her, he memorizes the text of “The Lady of Shalott”. But knows nothing else about the writer or any of his works.
Things hilariously do not go as planned, but rather instructively, aren’t that much different from the pretentious proclivities and motivations of today! 
This was also the plot of Roxanne with Steve Martin and Darryl Hannah. (And, of course, the Cyrano de Bergerac original.)
Much of the plot of Cyrano de Bergerac (play) - Wikipedia, written in 1897, some 130 years ago, is the same line. Somebody trying to portray someone they are not to woo their intended mate.
ETA: Ninjaed by 1 minute! Swords at Dawn there, Good Sir John. And no ringers! 
ETA2: Gaah!?!. I originally typed 1797, then tried to fix it to 1897, but typoed a second time to 1997. All good now. I think.
Damn, time goes fast. 1997 was 130 years ago?
You think I care about AI? I only posted to stealth brag.
They’re getting all over my turntable. Pass.
Both turntable and AI related, I found an old 1967 ad for my other turntable that’s in the shop and used Gemini to help clean it up and lightly colorize it, printed it at 8x12" for a whole $3.50 at CVS, bought a $9 fake-walnut frame at Amazon and it’ll look nice on the wall
I asked Claude, Sonnet 4.6 adaptive, to run an SEO analysis on our company’s website. It produced a 5-page report, organized what needed to be done from simple fixes to tasks requiring a lot of input/thought, and I sent the report to our web designer, telling her to implement specific solutions ASAP and that I’ll take time next week to do the items which require client input.
My prompt was simple, probably a bit too simple, but it did a decent job. Claude was quite critical of our website (in terms of lead generation), and that’s fine. I did tell Claude to use a nicer tone in the report, lol.
Here was my prompt:
I missed the word “ad” at first and thought you had somehow hooked Gemini up to a 3D printer to help restore an antique turntable. I was both very, very confused and also very impressed.
What did it suggest? Was it just like missing keywords here and there, markup details, or more substantial rewrites?
Did it say anything about optimization for LLMs and not just older search engines?