Aight, Part 2

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Artificial Imaginary FTW!

FTW, or "For the Win", was common Internet parlance for years, but I realize that I haven't heard it so much recently. Maybe it's a generational thing, and new phrases have replaced it. To my knowledge, the phrase comes from "The Hollywood Squares", which was popular in the late-90s with Tom Bergeron. It had made a comeback a decade earlier with John Davidson, but that was before the sudden rise of the Internet in the average home.

As with the first image from yesterday, which was already posted before I even begun work on this image, I will unlikely ever be able to reuse these characters except as a stock image. I could manipulate it in small ways. If you look at Michele's left ear (viewer's left), you'll notice that the hair around the earring is a little off. That's because she only had one earring, so I duplicated the other and colored in the hair around it.

These characters are definitely easier on the eyes. Speaking of eyes, Ken still came up with glasses. I was going to make a circumference joke but nothing good came to mind.

Giving Michele the math-y punchline about the square root of -1 amused me, so I went with that.

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Aight

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I can't count the number of things wrong with this, especially with those fingers.

I got to play around with "Text to Image" in Adobe back on Election Day during school professional development. And I'd already played around with the Bing AI image creator. I got the idea to do Mike and Ken in a classroom. The results were horrible even before I decided to add Michele into the mix. There was one somewhat decent image of her but the two guys were terrible, and then I lost it because I got logged out or something.

I'm starting to believe that these image creators don't like negatives, such as "no glasses". Mike has glasses, so everyone has glasses. Similarly, I tried an illustration with someone having angel wings but "no halo", and the angel always had a halo. And sometimes the non-angel had wings.

It'll get better in the coming years, and it'll be all over the place. The mosre generic an image, the easier it'll be to create. If I wanted planets circling a black hole, I could probably get some cool images. And if I needed random people, no problem. But describing my characters? That didn't go well.

I might do this again from time to time, making the AI a part of the joke. If I can't actually draw something, I can stick to stick figures or charts and graphs or simple shapes.

So what do you think of these characters? Yea or Nay? Use them again?

Actually, I probably couldn't use them again even if I wanted to. The odds of recreating anything similar are pretty long, so I'd be stuck with this single image as a Greek chorus commenting on other things.

I also write Fiction! You can now order Devilish And Divine, edited by John L. French and Danielle Ackley-McPhail, which contains (among many, many others) three stories by me, Christopher J. Burke about those above us and from down below. Order the softcover or ebook at Amazon. Also, check out In A Flash 2020, by Christopher J. Burke for 20 great flash fiction stories, perfectly sized for your train rides. Available in softcover or ebook at Amazon. If you enjoy it, please consider leaving a rating or review on Amazon or on Good Reads.

Come back often for more funny math and geeky comics.