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guppiecat ([personal profile] guppiecat) wrote2023-12-12 12:15 pm

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As you all know, I like new technology and old natural history. I took a bit of time yesterday to combine these together so we can play a game. (I expect I will do there periodically until I get bored with the game.)

Without searching, based on the text below, what do you think early explorers were describing?

Prompt: Can you draw a creature that emits a black and cloudy Liquor to disturb the cunning Angler; the Truth whereof I could never observe; only what was more certainly miraculous, its monstrous Figure: The Body was of a duskish Colour, all one Lump with the Head, without scales; it was endowned with large Eyes, and had long shreds like Gorgon’s Hair, hung in the manner of Snakes, bestuck with snail-like Shells reaching over the body; under these appeared a Parrot’s Beak, two Slits between the Neck are made instead of Gills for Respiration … the Inky Matter is bred in the Stomach.

GPT/Dall-E:
DALL·E 2023-12-12 12.11.20 - A creature with a monstrous figure, emitting a black, cloudy liquid to thwart anglers. Its body, including the head, is a single, scaleless, duskish-c



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MidJourney
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Google Bard failed to generate any image at all and just gave me a white square.
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[personal profile] minnehaha 2023-12-14 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Extend to 1890 or so, and you've invented steampunk.

K.