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Author: Phil
Comic: Israel, Palestine, Titanic
I used ChatGPT 4.0/Dall-E 3.0 to create this image back in March 2024. My god. The idea was simple enough… make Israel look like an iceburg that the titanic was running into. Damned if I could get Dall-E to do it. Usually the map of Israel was way off, or the titanic was pointed the… Read more
Comic: American politics Oct 2024
I have been trying for some time to create comics with Dall-E and it has been _frustrating_! The idea of this comic is to represent Kamala Harris as a bridge… she is a unifying force in many different ways. Trump is represented as a megaphone. I wanted the bridge to go from California to New… Read more
Comic: Roman Republic, 6th century BC
Back in the spring of 2024 I listened to an episode of the great podcast, The Rest is History, where they talked about the emergence of the Roman empire and had this great bit about how the Romans were so ruthless in their imposition of power that if they were resisted, they killed everyone including… Read more
Why Pessimistic Blog?
It’s an interesting time to be alive, and like many of us, I’m trying to understand what is going on. These are things I think about but don’t know as much about as I’d like. I’m using AI – large language models – to help me explore these issues. Please join me on this journey! Read more