{"id":15244,"date":"2021-08-16T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15244"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:11:52","slug":"ai-rotting-fruit-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/16\/ai-rotting-fruit-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"AI &#038; rotting-fruit horror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heh\u2014I was amused to hear generative apps&#8217; renderings of human faces\u2014often eerie, sometimes upsetting\u2014described as turning people into &#8220;rotten fruits.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This proves to me that in the insane array of ML models, the only way to control human movement and not turn them into rotten fruits, is to couple the models with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/styletransfer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#styletransfer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/aiart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#aiart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/generativeart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#generativeart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FctQxwL2xn\">https:\/\/t.co\/FctQxwL2xn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pinar Demirdag (@pinar_demirdag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pinar_demirdag\/status\/1423314266002710528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This reminded me of a recurring sketch from Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s early work, which featured literal rotting fruit acting out famous films\u2014e.g. Apocalypse Now, with Francis Ford Coppola sitting there to watch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bad Fruit Cinemas Apocalypse Now\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Pq2ASZV11E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t know what this has to do with anything\u2014except now I want to try typing &#8220;rotting fruit&#8221; plus maybe &#8220;napalm in the morning&#8221; into a generative engine just to see what happens. <em>The horror&#8230; the horror!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh\u2014I was amused to hear generative apps&#8217; renderings of human faces\u2014often eerie, sometimes upsetting\u2014described as turning people into &#8220;rotten fruits.&#8221; This reminded me of a recurring sketch from Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s early work, which featured literal rotting fruit acting out famous films\u2014e.g. Apocalypse Now, with Francis Ford Coppola sitting there to watch: No, I don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15271,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244\/revisions\/15271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}