Category: AI
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Who Is This
Who are they? As anyone who follows this blog knows, I’ve been becoming increasingly obsessed with generating AI images with a certain style (black and white engravings). I’ve even started selling some of them on T-shirts. The picture above fascinates me: who are they? If you can tell me something more about this person […]
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AI as DM
art by The Mycoleum Continuing my experiments with AI, I have been trying to get a computer to act as Dungeon Master, running a roleplaying game in response to my prompts. The results have been interesting, but for all the wrong reasons. In this post I will use the following conventions: My messages to […]
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GPT-4: give up, go home
“Generate an artpunk OSR scenario” The players are members of an underground art collective known as the Velvet Revolution. They’ve just landed a commission from the wealthy and eccentric art patron, Baroness de Vries, to create a masterpiece that will shock the city to its core. The catch? The Baroness has given them just […]
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Becoming Borg
The kind of elf you’ll find in any Wizards of the Coast book, but AI-generated Once again a post from Monsters and Manuals about AI has prompted… thoughts. I agree entirely with this statement: The real ‘threat’ posed by AI is not that it will replace us, but that we will come more closely to resemble […]
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d∞ Caltrops
Because I can’t stop tinkering with AI, I asked it to “Write a random OSR RPG table in the style of the d4 Caltrops blog“. Oh boy! d20: Dungeon Hazards A pit filled with venomous snakes A room full of acidic fog A room with a magical trap that teleports the party to another plane […]
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Further Encounters in AI
OpenAI have just added a new model, text-davinci-003, to their GPT-3 text generators. It is supposedly much higher quality than previous models, so I decided to generate some random encounters and some nanodeities using the same prompts as before. I also, for shits & giggles, decided to ask another AI to make pictures of the […]
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The Mycoleum
My friend James Burt and I are producing a “Mycelium Parish Newsletter”, a round-up of what’s been going on in our corner of the UK counterculture over the last year (James explains in a little more detail here). Our underground network of threads has birthed some fairly significant mushrooms recently, including the books What Remains? […]