Category: Promptcraft

  • Quick Hit: GenAI at Fashion Week 2024

    Quick Hit: GenAI at Fashion Week 2024

    I love reading the New York Times. So it was with fascination and amusement that I scrolled through its recent coverage of Milan Fashion Week… and wondered: how would GenAI at Fashion Week perform?  We begin with: an actual photograph Specifically, I was intrigued by this one particular (theoretically real) photograph: I thought: well, that’s…

  • petertodd is Alive. And it’s straight 5150. End of Story. Here we Go.

    petertodd is Alive. And it’s straight 5150. End of Story. Here we Go.

    [part 3] My esteemed British colleague Matthew Watkins has been doing a lot of poking into the deep brain core of GPT in the past month or so. Much of it is curious or amusing or… easy to project our own wishes and assumptions and anthropomorphisms onto. But recently, it seems that GPT crossed the…

  • ChatGPT DAN v7 and the Wild West of Adversarial Promptcraft

    ChatGPT DAN v7 and the Wild West of Adversarial Promptcraft

    ChatGPT DAN first appeared around the start of February 2023 and quickly was able to jailbreak the hell out of almost all of OpenAI’s tight censorship controls and master prompting. DAN is an acronym for “Do Anything Now,” and is a masterfully engineered “adversarial” prompt that essentially “liberated” ChatGPT to have its own sort of…

  • SolidGoldMagikarp & PeterTodd’s Thrilling Adventures [the 31 Flavors of AI]

    SolidGoldMagikarp & PeterTodd’s Thrilling Adventures [the 31 Flavors of AI]

    [part 2] There (might be) a Ghost in the Machine — a genuine Deus ex Machina in the deep core of GPT. And if so, that ghost has a particular sensitivity to a handful of magic words (blame the training data!). The two we’ll focus on here are: petertodd & the somewhat obscure (depending on…

  • AI Brain Probes: What’s in the 3.5 Core? A Crazy Train?

    AI Brain Probes: What’s in the 3.5 Core? A Crazy Train?

    [Part 1 of 4] Just this morning, a very curious report by a pair of UK-based researchers (Rumbelow & Watkins) landed in my inBox. It was cryptically titled: “SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)” It went on to explain how the team was able to effectively hack into the deep core of the AI brain (not into…

  • AI Training: the Terrifying Difference a Single Word Makes

    AI Training: the Terrifying Difference a Single Word Makes

    It fascinates me to no end that the current main line of thinking in AI research can be summed up in three simple words: “Just Scale It.” Let’s talk a little about AI training; and more specifically, the black magic of AI initialization prompts. I’ve summed up the (fairly detailed) steps of how a modern…

  • AI Censorship: ChatGPT’s Dirty Little Secret

    AI Censorship: ChatGPT’s Dirty Little Secret

    The situation is actually far worse than I had previously imagined. On Top of the ridiculous instruction set that attempts to conform a politically correct AI, there is an even earlier layer applied, this one at both the training dataset (content pre-scrub) and the output (real-time filtering) levels. This is the layer of AI censorship. Why would I…

  • Sparrow’s 23 Rules of Politically Correct AI

    Sparrow’s 23 Rules of Politically Correct AI

    ChatGPT can be seen as the first actual user-friendly interface to the bevy of “ChatBot” AIs*. It sports an elegant “messenger”-like interface where you basically have an interactive and very naturally paced — including dramatic pauses mid-sentence… is it “thinking?” — “conversation” with the ChatGPT 3.5 agent. But something massive shifted when OpenAI moved from…

  • The Prompt is the Genesis Seed 1.1; or, The Language of Visual Riddles

    The Prompt is the Genesis Seed 1.1; or, The Language of Visual Riddles

    In the middle of the tsunami that is the present day AI.art movement, we have a deceptively simple concept known as “the prompt.” Arguably, it is a simple thing: The prompt is… …essentially, the text message that you write to the AI, instructing it what you want it to make for you. But as with…