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Mar. 12th, 2024

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 Hotpot.ai and I are discussing the situation. I'm hoping they'll give me my missing credits and if not...ah well...

Meanwhile I've been trying other image generators. Free services only. I'm not spending any more money for the time being.

Night Cafe are generous with credits. Here's an image I made with them.. I was trying to get AI to render the story of Scylla (as featured in the Odyssey) and got images that ranged from bonkers to banal. This comes somewhere in the middle- with Scylla reduced to an elderly person of uncertain gender standing on a cliff looking down at a Greek galley. I like how the city is veiled in mist- a grace note that I owe entirely to AI.


Scylla

Mar. 12th, 2024 03:28 pm
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 Homer's Scylla was woman up above and dogs down below. Try getting AI to make sense of a prompt like that....

So I didn't try. I asked for images of a fierce looking old biddy accompanied by dogs and/or wolves.  I also suggested that waves would be nice.

These images were made with NightCafe. They're a bit inyerface so I'm putting them behind a cut...

There's no sex and violence, by the way (NightCafe is family friendly) but Scylla was a monster and these versions of her aren't exactly pretty....
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 Veganism- the word not the practice- has existed since 1944. It was coined by Donald Watson and Dorothy Morgan- later a married couple- for their magazine The Vegan News. Watson took the first and final syllables of Vegetarianism and rammed them together. Veganism, he wittily explained, was "the beginning and end of vegetarianism".

There wa always a suggestion of fighting talk about it- and the fact that there's a star called Vega and anyone or anything hailing from there (like the aliens in Carl Sagan's novel Contact) is rightly described as Vegan- contributes an accidental overtone or undertone of spaceiness.

Ailz and I have been talking about this. Clearly Vegan is the established term and isn't going to fade away any time soon but really we'd rather be using the less aggressive term "plant-based". A lot of the manufacturers prefer it too as it's less likely to put off customers.

"Plant-based" implies a certain latitude- which, I sheepishly admit, we now allow ourselves. Yes, we base our diet on plants but once in a while we'll allow ourselves a nibble of proper cow-based cheese or a meal of fish and chips. I love sea-food, I love a cheese sauce- and if a restaurant has something on its menu that includes these two elements I'm not going to be choosing the worthy but boring plant-based burger.

I still draw the line at meat- and I'm sparing with dairy. I have eaten cheese today and a couple of little cakes made by a Friend- that probably contained butter (I didn't enquire) but my two main meals of the day were homemade vegetable curry and- for supper- mushrooms on toast....

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