by Chris McGinty
A little while ago, I surmised that Nathan was using an AI art program to make thumbnails for his blog posts. I’m still in a semi-anti-artificial-intelligence-state-of-mind (SAAISOM). I will likely never use that acronym again. I don’t like that, somehow, it’s being used for the things that humans enjoy doing, but somehow humans are still doing the things we don’t like doing.
Anyway, it occurred to me that maybe there could be a use for this tool. I asked Nathan to send me a random AI picture, so I could try to write a blog post around the picture. He sent me a few of them. I haven’t looked at any of them yet. I’m about to grab the first one right now for this link hub introduction.
I don’t like him. He’s better looking than me.
A while back, Nathan and I worked for a while on a board game called “Rise of the Rockstar.” I feel like this could put Jason Chalker out of work. I’ve expressed to Nathan that I still want to use real artists for our games, but I guess now we have to worry that the real artists would just use AI to create our art anyway, so Nathan and I will have to just learn how to draw. That’s all there is to it.
Now, I’m thinking that normally when I do this kind of blog posts that I will take a lot more time to examine the picture and find multiple angles by which to discuss it. This is the basic idea though. Write an introduction, reveal the picture (to myself and the audience), and then find a number of things to say about the picture, like this: This guy is definitely the Ace of Coins in my Rock ‘n’ Roll Tarot Deck: Emo Edition.
By the way, I have a belief about holes in clothing. You have to earn them. You buy the jeans new and then you wear the fuck out of them until they develop holes. You don’t put the holes in them yourself, and you especially don’t buy them with holes in them. I guess is kind of like being SAAISOM, except for clothing holes rather than artificial intelligence. You have to earn the holes, and you have to earn the talent.
Seacrest out. (The guy in the picture looks nothing like Ryan Seacrest. Maybe the love child of Adam Lambert and David Cook.)
Here are the random AI picture blog posts I’ve written:
I look forward to this…