Fun with A.I. : 3

Here are some more examples of the successes (but mostly failures) I’ve had working with the artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform Grok to create images and videos to illustrate my blogposts. You can see previous efforts here

In private correspondence readers have asked what instructions I give Grok. Here’s an example

Create Images for a fictional story set in England in the 1960s. It is an elite ‘public’ school and in the headmaster’s study a senior male pupil aged 18 wearing grey trousers, a white shirt and blue tie is stretched over a desk waiting to be caned. The headmaster is also in the picture

It is worth mentioning here that Grok is very American and doesn’t understand what a school cane is. If you ask for one, it will inevitably give you what we English call a walking stick. It is much better at producing school paddles (the United States weapon of choice in schools).

I’ve also noticed it prefers to make drawings rather than photographs.

Grok is inconsistent and sometimes it will give you an image and other times, not. If you keep trying (maybe by changing a word or two in the instruction) it might come up with something. Sometimes it will go much further than you asked. Once I have an image, only then do I ask Grok to turn it into a video. I don’t offer further instructions, and I just let Grok have its head.

Here’s an example of an illustration I asked Grok to make. It is a straightforward headmaster facing a senior pupil in his study.

I then asked it to make a video and it came up with this. I did not prompt it on the dialogue.

I asked for an image of a schoolmaster caning a senior pupil in front of the class and Grok gave me this.

The video it then produced was a bit off target, but it did create the basics for an interesting story.

Here’s another take on the caning in the classroom theme.

In the video, the cane is at least a bit on target …

Now we move the action back into the headmaster’s study

And this time the video is bang on target.

One of the frustrations with Grok is that it is inconsistent. It has ‘safeguards’ that it will not breach. Until, that is, it does so... and often of its own accord.

Then, without further prompting, Grok turned this photo into a quite disturbing video.

And to finish, something that I think is hilarious (I hope you find it fun too…)

I started with a cartoon that I’ve had in my collection for years. I don’t know who drew it or where it’s from (if you know, please tell).

 I asked it to reimagine the image as a photograph in a headmaster’s study. It came up with this familiar figure.

 

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