Notices by Janelle Shane (janellecshane@wandering.shop)

The terminal B Tattered Cover at Denver Airport has six signed copies of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You!

New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will-apologize-for-anything/

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

It's the return of coconut fluff rings and phempherbly ice!

This time you're looking for monito sauce.

https://www.404media.co/email/b168f71f-296f-4800-82a3-fd8dcf84cc68/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Made up ingredients from char-rnn, 2016:

https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-neural-network-invents-fancy-16-03-12/

I asked chatgpt4 to have dalle3 generate "a cross section of a gourmet chocolate with each layer labeled."

https://www.aiweirdness.com/chocolates-labeled/

Asked Dalle-E to generate a set of labeled flightless birds. Not sure this is up to the standards of scientific illustration (or anything practical, really) but they're kind of delightful.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/learn-the-birds/

Many uses of large language models are dubious. This one has no redeeming value whatsoever.
https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/

This reads like the first act of a Ted Chiang story:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/someone-has-finally-beaten-nes-tetris/

Dec 1 (AI-generated food(?))

Dec 2 (Dalle3 generated)

Dec 4 (Dalle-3 generated)

Dec 3 (AI generated food ...maybe?)

Dec 5 (dalle3 generated advent calendar)

Dec 6 (dalle3 generated advent calendar)

Dec 7
the longer you look at ai generated images the worse they get

Dec 8 (dalle3 generated food or mold or yarn)

Dec 10 (dalle3 food or possibly pot pourri)

Dec 9 (another dalle3 attempt at food)

Dec 11 (dalle3 with another attempt!)