Monthly Archives: February 2024

NAGging feeling

Posted on February 29, 2024 by phb256

Today’s Daily Create asked us to play with the Net.Art Generator. Maybe I should have read the home page, but instead I clicked the Create button as soon as I found it. Moments earlier I had been thinking about AI-generated … Continue reading →

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Bot you see is bot you get

Posted on February 27, 2024 by phb256

When we were kids playing hockey in the driveway, we used to blast this song out of the window and chop our sticks on the pavement in time with the beat. Of course, we were too young back then to … Continue reading →

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A frank warning

Posted on February 26, 2024 by phb256

I wondered about the ethics of working with Bob, so I looked up a list of public domain movies and saw that Suddenly, the old Frank Sinatra assassination classic, was on the list. I downloaded it and skimmed through looking … Continue reading →

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I’m kinda glad he doesn’t look at the camera.

Posted on February 24, 2024 by phb256

I was glad to see someone successfully took on the Talk to the Bot assignment. A few others tried but couldn’t get it to work. As I watched the voice-over with avatar part of the video, I wondered what would … Continue reading →

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Week Seven: “Ask not what AI can do for you…”

Posted on February 23, 2024 by phb256

Propaganda. N. From the Latin propagare, meaning “to go viral.” A communication intended to influence or persuade, to further an agenda, usually through an emotional appeal rather than a rational one. What is your character’s position on AI? Aggressive Technologies? … Continue reading →

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A word on uploading videos

Posted on February 23, 2024 by phb256

It looks like a few people have uploaded videos to their Wrodpress media libraries. It is probably better to upload to Youtube or Vimeo instead, and embed videos in your posts from there. If you go into cPanel and look … Continue reading →

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AI and Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows …

Posted on February 21, 2024 by phb256

This week in ds106 we revisited our goals for the course. Everybody feels they are on track, and a few people added some revisions. I expected more changes and redirection due to the somewhat chaotic nature of how we do … Continue reading →

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“Ah, the poetic wonders of destruction and turmoil”

Posted on February 16, 2024 by phb256

Botmaster Michael Branson Smith mentioned the AI Rap Battle Generator the other week, and after playing with the Wav2Lip script a bit, I had the thought, “What if Dr. Oblivion battled Bob Ross?” And thus we have the rap battle … Continue reading →

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This is your brain on the radio

Posted on February 13, 2024 by phb256

We had a bunch of interesting radio show ideas this past week, including: talk show news show day in a life work together to take over the city work together to defeat Dr. Oblivion AI pros & cons AI propaganda … Continue reading →

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(I can’t believe I forgot to put in a title!)

Posted on February 12, 2024 by phb256

I hadn’t done a video analysis in a while, so I thought I should give it a try. I wanted something AI-related to work with. My first thought was Blade Runner, since I had a copy from the library, but … Continue reading →

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