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Thought maybe I should do thispipedoesnotexist, but of course it's been done: https://thispipedoesnotexist.com/ https://thispipedoesnotexist.com/
by omnicognate 5y ago
Thought maybe I should do thispipedoesnotexist, but of course it's been done: https://thispipedoesnotexist.com/ https://thispipedoesnotexist.com/
- gpvos 5y agoWould be nice to have an actual pipe-generating AI.
- SamBam 5y agoI believe Windows had a screensaver that did that decades ago...
- teh_klev 5y agoBack in the day, ~1995'ish I was a tech supporting Windows NT4 (amongst many other things) and I had a customer with a beefy dual processor server living on premises in a closet. For some unknown reason NT would slow down and overall performance was a bit rubbish. It turns out that the customer had turned on the pipes screensaver and it basically soaked up all of the CPU time. Fortunately my customer was more agreeable to disabling this compared to this similar story from those days of yore: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Fat-Pipe https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Fat-Pipe
- adonovan 5y agoUnfortunately the Dall-E demo (openai.com/blog/dall-e) doesn't have useful deep links nor let you choose free-form prompts, but if you modify one of the existing text prompts to "a snail made of faucet", it generates some pretty realistic pipes--the plumbing variety--that I'm pretty sure do not exist. Examples: https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_23.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran... https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_25.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran... https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_15.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran...
- gpvos 5y agoFascinating how the replies are about the plumbing pipe variety, while the link above is clearly to the smoking type, which was what I meant. I guess you can use this one to generate that though.
- thanatos519 5y agoBrilliant!
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoIt’s literally loading the same image every time.
- omnicognate 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoMy favourite mouse mat ever was from Blackwell's Bookshop. An oval mouse mat with a beautiful illustration of a mouse sitting on a mat, with "Ceci n'est pas un mousemat" as the caption. https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/157766793165878650 https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/157766793165878650 Apologies for the pinterest link; not many photos of this. And even this one is (like mine was) discoloured from decades in the light.
- Biganon 5y agoIs that term used in Québec? Why not "tapis de souris"?
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoIt's a "franglais" joke.
- na85 5y agoWell in France on se stationne dans un parking, but in Quebec on se park dans un stationnement. C'est la vie.
- Julesman 5y ago
- tasha0663 5y agoWhat pipe? That's not a pipe.
- zoover2020 5y agoFound the American.
- drusepth 5y agoOr someone who recognized the pipe from the original artwork that includes the line: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" / "This is not a pipe". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
- galgot 5y agoWhen one knows the other dirty meaning of "pipe" in French, one can wonder if Magritte had a dirty sens of humour.
- INTPenis 5y agoOh that must be where the Swedish "pippa" came from. The Swedes were after all enamoured with french culture and language for a long time.
- apocalypstyx 5y agoUnfortunately, the joke misses (or misses me) a bit. But it does seem like there is a critical distinction between 'this is not a pipe' and 'this pipe does not exist'. The original targets the distinction between the image and the 'reality', the difference between the map and the territory and our linguistic/perceptual confusions as to such. In this case however, this 'pipe' does exist. It can't be said to exists in terms of reference to an object outside of the image, but the image itself is as extant as any image. We could argue about issues of permanence---what happens when I turn my device off and the data representing such in memory and on the screen evaporates?, etc---but likewise the universe (at least according to current scientific understanding) is likely to 'evaporate', so in that regard the 'real' world is just as permanent as the image on a screen that is only a temporary electrical phenomena interacting with human perception. Maybe I've missed something or am overthinking it. (And yes, it's just a joke website, but if a joke can't lead one to spiraling into existential despair at the nature of existence, what's the point?)
- omnicognate 5y agoAh, but "pipe" doesn't refer to the picture. That's not a pipe. It refers to an actual pipe. That doesn't exist. :-) Edit: TBH I'm not sure why they put that picture of a pipe there, just a bit of decoration I suppose. :-D
- tetsusaiga 5y agoIt's a reference to a famous surrealist painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images My artist girlfriend shared this with me once, and I'm happy to be able to pay it forward. haha
- omnicognate 5y agoI know, I posted the same link elsewhere in the thread :-). Just trying to think of ways the domain name can work.
- mbb70 5y agoThis is Not A Pipe That Exists, which returns some AI convolution of many pipes with some heavy weighting toward the Magritte pipe would be ideal for me.