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Midjourney Monday: Meet Honoré Daumier

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Daumier

This French artist (1808-1879) is perhaps best known for his caricatures, but he was also a capable painter, and I guess he must have painted a bunch of images set in the early ninteenth century, because you can prompt Midjourney with his name and various Jane Austen characters and get something halfway plausible:

Yes, I know Austen said that Jane Bennet was the one who liked green, but these sure look like Lizzy and Darcy to me.

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So, Novelcrafter…

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In late 2023/early 2024, well before I started writing the space regency, I was trying to brainstorm it on Sudowrite using the free starting credits, and…didn’t get really anywhere with it. This was I think my first experience with AIs other than the image generator Midjourney, and that probably had more to do with my lack of success than anything in particular about Sudowrite. So, I got curious about Novelcrafter, partly because I heard good things about its abilities to store and organize world-building notes, and partly because it could integrate with the Claude AI family, which I use fairly heavily on the free plan; mostly for dictation cleanup and sometimes brainstorming. So, I opened an account on Novelcrafter and one on Openrouter.ai, because it was one of the options for bringing an AI into Novelcrafter, bought a few credits on Openrouter to pay for the AI usage, and imported the space regency (now at 16000 words) into the free trial of Novelcrafter…

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For the People Who Complain that Claude AI is Too Much of a Sycophant

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Here’s Claude’s response to the latest round of dictation cleanup I brought him, yesterday evening:

I mean, give me a break, Claude, I recorded that while driving home after an uncomfortable medical appointment (nothing serious, just uncomfortable) in excruciatingly hot weather (also known by its street name, “summer”) with the car AC going full blast.

(Please note that in this particular chat, Claude is completely turned around about Chloe Fortebat’s last name. I don’t find it to be worth the trouble of correcting him in this particular instance, it’s just a bit of find/replace when I take the text back to my word processor and do additional editing.)