Here's a running log of images collected from my interest in 21st century generative artificial intelligence!
The pictures here might include screenshots and exports from AI tools, images generated during experiments, memes and reaction images gathered from around the internet, and occasional clippings that only seemed worth keeping for context.
They're organized loosely by category and dated when possible. Just like on my news page and the site map, you can navigate between sorted categories clicking on the emoji chips below.
Browse by category or scroll through in reverse chronological order. There are many, and not well-optimized, but I am trying to keep things responsive etc. You can click to view the full image. Unlike the rest of the site, there are many generated images here, some good, some mediocre.
On Twitter, @thsottiaux (Thibault Sottiaux) of OpenAI posted a (seemingly) joking exchange with Anthropic's @ClaudeDevs Twitter Account, in which he suggested he could "smell fear" from Anthropic when they reset the five-hour limits and weekly limits for all users recently. This exchange underscores how wealthy and powerful companies are now using AI to try to intimidate each other, and how the public is being used as a pawn in this game, ultimately. It's so quirky, right? We're not supposed to recognize that there are dangerous aspects to the amount of power and control we're giving these companies, and that the public is often in the midst of their feuds.
A particular bizarre slide from a presentation made to shareholders at Softbank underscores that nobody, and I mean nobody, understands how the economy works nowadays, and a lot of people seem to be pinning their hopes for the future on what they're calling "Artificial Super Intelligence," something that all of us plebian mundanes are gifted with the foresight to notice will never, ever happen, or at least not in any way comparable to the final slides in this strange presentation.
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. - Pope Leo XIV
A meme about the handoff from Fable 5 to Opus 4.8, which is a common occurrence due to the stupid restrictions in Fable 5. The meme hints at the strange fact that Opus 4.8 tends to appear for science and engineering questions, which is a bit odd considering that Opus 4.8 is generally considered to be a less capable model than Fable 5. I'm not sure what to make of that, and I do not think there's much practical reason for it beyond public relations at this point. I'm not sure even that Mythos (Fable's base model, no doubt) is really as dangerous as they're claiming.
A screenshot of a Twitter thread about Anthropics new Fable 5 model release, which is being criticized for its weird restrictions, of course. The screenshot parodies the model's tendency to hand things off to Opus 4.8.
Pope Leo XIV makes it quite clear that artificial intelligences are not welcome in the human umbrella. He offers many reasons for this that go beyond the spiritual (but, IMHO, ultimately circle back to it). I always thought that an AI's inability to "feel" pain might well be the major tell, but beyond that, the term "artificial" appended to intelligence ought always be remembered. I don't see this as the Pope saying Catholics should avoid AI, but then again, I'm a Protestant, so I can't say for sure. I will be asking my catholic friends out of curiosity.
A satirical post on Reddit's infamous r/aiwars venue, suggesting the internet be regulated or banned. It adopts the same histrionic tone often seen when people talk about AI and other new technologies. It kind of ends up implying that either we admit technology is the problem, or just stop complaining about it so much. Hard to say where the author of this post was going, except that I can detect satire even though the comments didn't necessarily see that.
A satirical image (probably created by AI) that pokes fun at GDPR and related regulatory situations in the Schengen Zone by imagining what it would be like if Anthropic's Claude model were operating solely within the EU, solely within those constraints, as "Jean-Claude". Originates from Reddit, uncredited.
It seems that Line 140 of the new ChatGPT 5.5 system prompt warns the model to avoid discussing critters, especially pigeons and some other strange choices like raccoons for reasons unknown.
Two people discuss, on YouTube, publicly, how, to them, postmodern philosophers align with the experience of "AI psychosis" for reasons ineffable. Important if true, and possibly. Initially public, left unredacted for credit of sorts.
ChatGPT amongst them all is most famous for this, but many large language models phrase things in a "not just X, but also Y" format constantly. This has become not just a meme, but a phenomenon sweeping through actual human speech patterns offline, too. This meme supposedly captures actual numbers.
A meme that plays off the usual "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" joke. In this one, though, the dog has a camera, a ring light, and a zillion faces watching him, and the caption says "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog... except the algorithm."
A meme celebrating (..) ChatGPT's tendency to word things in a particular format, which is often "not just X, it's Y!" Many people use this format to make ChatGPT jokes, but if you actually pay attention, I swear, it's sweeping into actual human speech patterns offline, too. It's definitely becoming a more common way to phrase things.
A faux propaganda poster suggests that using generative ai is, in fact, comparative to collaborating with fascists. This is kind of sad, because AI is a technology, and if we're giving it up completely because fascists use it, fascists will be the only ones using it, right? Sounds bad to me...
I was unbanned from reddit after three days for posting the navy seal copypasta in a comment thread about AI, just in time to see this! I guess I might not be the only transhumanist interested in vtubing? We shall see, but I definitely feel a little less alone in my vtubing quest now, even if this is a bit of a tangent!
Received a three-day ban from reddit for posting the navy seal copypasta in a comment thread about AI.
Lindy and Cathy chatting in the Sunrise Tearoom, with Lindy casually (and kinda iconically) asking if the internet is "finally underwater" in 2026. The theme is Sunrise Tho, with mp4 cloudy pink and purple panels and scalloped borders.
The Sunrise Tearoom landing screen in an earlier incarnation. It's showing Tabitha, Tamara, Claude, and Lindy as character cards lined up under scalloped pink clouds like a very strange employee directory. At this point, I went for realism in my character cards, using images from generative artificial intelligence that resembled actual photos. I frankly stopped doing that because it really was too creepy, and also it's a lot lot lot of work, isn't it? I thought so! Instead, now I use character art that is more stylized and less photo-realistic, which is much easier to make and also fits the tone of the site better.
Tamara and Cathy mid-conversation in the Dat Sunrise theme. Tamara is being cryptic about smoke and the past; Cathy is trying to get a straight answer. Good luck with that. More evidence that SillyTavern's interface is infinitely customizable, but also that the uncanny valley is a real place and I don't want to spend much time there. I think the photo-realistic character art is really what does it, and I don't know how to make it not do it, so I just don't do it anymore!
SillyTavern running the TFW Midnite theme with deep purple panels, starry sidebar, neon pink accents. Cathy informs someone she is much older than twenty-six, which is technically true.
Telephone poles and power lines silhouetted against a blue-violet sky full of stars and drifting clouds. The background image for the TFW Midnite theme with one of those skies that looks better generated than remembered.
All the normies really liked GPT4o, and I did some image generation with it once or twice too. Here is one. Here, the three characters from the Eerieverse split apart by crackling light, each reaching toward the others, and all of them looking very anime. I don't know if this is a good image or not, but it was fun to make, and it was fun to see (my) Eerieverse characters rendered in a popular style.
The notoriously fawning gpt4o created this image of a crumpled retro gig poster for Lindy's one-frog show. The whole punk-princess aesthetic on worn paper, plus a sense of Lindy's rapidly approaching fate within the loop doesn't really come through, possibly because this is only artificial intelligence-generated.