I try to stay away from both outrage or hype about AI. I’ve muted accounts from agitators both for and against. In the author space, we’re giving it far more attention than it deserves. Especially in places where people are screaming at each other without regard or obvious knowledge about…
No reason. Just because. You can get AI image generators to spit out some amazing stuff by combining words that normally don’t mean anything. You can also ask for stuff like “the meaning of life” and it will give you some images. Invariably those will be of a person seen…
When you ask MidJourney for an old house, it usually gives you a medieval house in the southern German style like the one above. Sometimes it will be ruined and creepy. It’s a nice image but also it gets a little boring after you’ve seen a lot of them. So…
I want to show you how to make a great AI image: what goes into it and that it’s not just a matter of pressing a button and something great comes out. Lately there has been a lot of discussion about AI imagery. Note I do not call it “art”…
This link was doing the rounds on social media, where you can find books used to train AI. Just type your name, and probably one or two books will come up. Mine were the first Ambassador and Return of the Aghyrians books. Both have gone into AI models. Both have…
The robots are coming for us! I swear at some point I will stop using clicheed (AI-generated) images for posts about AI, but I love making robot armies so here we are. You will probably know by now that I’m not hostile to AI, but I’m not terribly hawkish about…
I have a few admissions to make. First, I’m a book cover art junkie. I love book covers, I have way more fonts than I can ever use and way more stock photo credits than I can use. Secondly, I lurk in a lot of cover design groups on Facebook….
