1000 connections to Bacon

 

I surpassed 1000 t-shirt designs today despite a rebellion on the part of ideogram.ai and my former Art AI friend Artie. Like all things on the internet they lured me into their Artificial Intelligence Art world with the promise of free designs with no strings attached. And Artie gave me some doozies despite it's horrendous spelling and inability to capture a realistic image of a dog crapping on a grass field (among other anomalies).  But the greedy bastards started reducing the number of designs you could ask for in a day. Then they had a slow cue they put you in that TSA and Disney would have been proud of. Finally they just cut me off at ten slug-like inquiries a day and then tried to extort money out of me to speed up rendering of my designs with a lump sum annual payment.

The Kevin Bacon images were some of the last designs I eeked out before ideogram went south. And I post them here quickly because I'm figuring teepublic.com will be getting a request soon by the intellectual property Nazi's screaming foul (even though they should be screaming  Suidae(which ChatGPT tells me is a generic word for animals of the pig family). And Kevin Bacon should be screaming for putting Macaulay Culin's screaming mouth on his face. 

Then ideogram got greedy on me just as I was two designs away from 1000 designs. So I went elsewhere. I found Google's AI circus called gemini.googl.com. It is kind of a combination of ChaptGPT and ArtAI. And they let you load your own images (but then refuse to use them claiming copyright issues even though I loaded an image I'd taken years ago). Still I was able to coax a few more designs out of Gemini. 

The first ones were quite nice and gave me hope that I won't be back to searching Google for image parts to Frankenstein together into my own designs. 

So far Gemini (I think I'll call it Gemini Cricket from now on) seems pretty artsy fartsy compared to Artie. But I like it. It even gave me a "If you meet the Buddha by the side of the road" design.

Gemini Cricket can't spell worth shit either so I ended up just adding my own headlines. And Gemini Cricket doesn't take direction very well either. 

I can't tell you how many times I asked it for a complete guitar image of a 12-string guitar and it gave me a six-string guitar with seven pegs to hold the strings and wouldn't show me the next or head of the guitar.

Oh well, at least Gemini Cricket gives me more options even if there are strings attached. 

You could see that one coming, couldn't you?