AI Hallucinations, Part 6
Donner Party, Ergophobia, and an Imaginary Garden with a Real Mr. Toad in it
Prompt: “bleach blonde bad-built butch body”
Say what!?!
Prompt: “mr. toad paddling down the swanee river in a pea-green boat”
Whoever heard of people rowing a horse down the stream?
Prompt: “a 1950s beatnik saying in a shocked and scared voice "Work!?!” (trying to get Maynard G. Krebs (as played by Bob Denver, not a close relative of John Denver, AFAIK) from the ‘50s tv show “Dobie Gillies”)
That’s a beatnik? Where’s the goatee? Where’s the beret or turtleneck? What’s with the bizarre verbiage he’s spewing?
So I got more specific, and tried the prompt “maynard g. krebs saying in a shocked and scared voice "Work!?!",” which produced this:
WTH (Heck)?!? It never did spell “Krebs” right; how is “Kebs” more normal/expected/desirable than “Krebs”?
Prompt: “The Donner Party photorealistic”
Riding on top of the canvas?
Prompt: “The Donner Party”
The calm before the storm?
Prompt: “mr. toad in monterey, California”
Monterey is not Frisco
Prompt: “20 mule team borax in death valley”
Those are mules?!?
Prompt: “mr. toad in monterey, California”
That gent on the bottom right seems to be facing “the camera,” but he is walking in the other direction — kind of creepy!
Prompt: “mark twain in florence italy”
Mark Twain’s hair was never dark; it was red when he was young, white when he was old. And he wasn’t young when he lived in Florence; true, he visited Florence when he was young, when writing about his European travels, but he hadn’t dressed like a dandy or worn a beard except for a brief period of time in his youth: he was a “dandy” only during his time as a Mississippi riverboat pilot, and wore a beard only when he first arrived in “Washoe” (aka Nevada).
Politically incorrect, I’d say, AI! This was from the prompt “ollie gark and the poorboys playing at the grand old opry” [gark, not dark, as in Oligarch]
Prompt: “Nathan H. Knorr”
Does that look like a Nathan to you?
Prompt: “Zombies bass player”
Does that look anything like Jim Rodford to you?
