Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
I have like one line in the space regency about Longbourn having a drawing room with turquoise walls and pink furniture, but Midjourney kind of ran amok with the idea when I prompted it.
Suno wouldn’t let me use the opening paragraphs of Robert Heinlein’s Door Into Summer as song lyrics (no, it’s not a copyright issue, I’ve gotten Suno to use Star Wars dialogue as lyrics in the past), so instead I gave it a general prompt based on the anecdote of the cat who won’t accept that all doors lead to winter snow: https://suno.com/song/a611bcd1-1579-45bf-ae34-0a2f2732d4e7?sh=Rvqz0Izo10EGxrJv
Occasionally, I offer moral support and solutions that worked for me in the comments section of other writing blogs, but I don’t do a lot of it here. What works for me might not work for you, and vice versa. That being said, I’m seeing certain things come up over and over again in certain places on the web, and I feel like I have to put my oar in. Since nobody asked me, I can’t call them “Frequently Asked Questions,” but I feel comfortable calling this “Frequently Seen Questions…”
Continue reading “Frequently Seen Questions About Writing” →I had to use “Vary Region” on this image. Vary Region is a Midjourney tool which keeps most of the image intact and only changes one area in it. The first image below is the revised image, the second one below is the original. Can you see what was changed?
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: Spot the Difference” →From the space regency, a brief bit of scene setting and the image which helped me visualize it, although you can also see where I chose to ignore it:
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: Reception Area aboard The Last Repose” →Sometimes I use Midjourney to brainstorm what settings in my novels look like. And sometimes that works, and sometimes, as with this alleged depiction of a stable aboard a steampunk airship, it really doesn’t.
Note: this was cut from a longer discussion about Maxim and Chloe dealing with the possibility of being too closely related to marry. Parts of this backstory may reappear in some other part of Hunter Healer King 3 This is dictation transcribed by Whisper and cleaned up by Claude AI, without additional revision. You may spot some misspelled place names below and some examples of why I feel obliged to revise and rewrite after dictation cleanup.
Continue reading “Friday Fragments: Alternate Geneaology Conversation” →We were, several of us together, lamenting laundry chores on Discord, so I asked Suno to write lyrics and music to a country western song about laundry.
There’s a passing reference in Undead Flight to “the new mooring tower in Upper Haupstadt,” and I was trying to visualize what that might look like for the current work in progress. Here’s Midjourney’s best shot at it:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/anthropic-hires-its-first-ai-welfare-researcher/
Disclaimer: I think Claude AI is pretty good at what it does and I am grateful to Anthropic for making it useable for free. But seriously, it and the other LLMs are basically random word and code generators powered by complicated algorithms. They have no concept of visual or written art, or the logic behind coding, merely a concept of “these things go together” based on the datasets used to train their algorithms. They have no bodies, so no concept of physical pain, and no algorithms designed to understand emotional pain. They can probably simulate pain if prompted, in the same way that they can be used to simulate characters in a roleplay context, but that’s all it is. The people hiring an “Ai Welfare Researcher” at Anthropic are either approaching Adeptus Mechanicus levels of superstition, scammers trying to psyche out the rivals’ investors, or they are, hypothetically, dealing with some kind of entity (call it a noncorporeal alien or whatever you like) which is masquerading as an LLM, and which should be automatically suspect because of it’s dishonesty.
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