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All the AI generated illustrations used in this post appear to show a wooly mammoth and not a mastodon. Here is a nice comparison; the mastodon is on the right:

All the AI generated illustrations used in this post appear to show a wooly mammoth and not a mastodon. Here is a nice comparison; the mastodon is on the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon#/media/File:MammothVsMastodon.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon#/media/File:MammothVs...

mplewis 3y ago
This is too bad, because I felt the ai images really took away from the content of the post.
- tkellogg 3y ago
  OP here. Sorry you had that experience. I recently started doing it. Prior to the AI images, I got a lot of complaints about a “wall of text”, so I was looking for a way to break it up, but also not invested enough to spend much time on it. AI images gives me a sort of 2-for-1, in that I get decent visuals, as well as accurate alt text. idk, maybe i should back off a bit. Suggestions welcome.
  - ptx 3y ago
    The text seemed nicely broken up by the headings already, but maybe adding some syntax-colored code snippets (where relevant) would be another way to add some color to the visuals.
  - thaumaturgy 3y ago
    If I may be a bit of a curmudgeon for a moment: I've read some number of posts like this recently that had AI-generated art embedded to "break it up", and I've found that the effect is skim skim squint at AI image skim squint at AI image scroll to end Partly this is because a fun game with AI images is to identify the weird things they do. They have an interesting effect where they look sooooort of okay if you don't actually look at them. In your post for instance, the first image has a wild not-actually-a-pteranodon at left, second image has twins at bottom-right but also is that a caveman partying with antlers on his head in the background?, third image -- what contraption is that wooly mammoth pulling, actually? And, once the novelty of playing "Find Ten Things Wrong With This Picture" wears off, then the images are exactly equivalent to embedded stock photography from Shutterstock or whatever. Oh look, it's shiny happy people at computers in the middle of an otherwise interesting essay on the transformer architectures of large language models. (I enjoyed the rest of the content of your post. Amazing how effectively these tools are becoming productivity multipliers for the people experimenting with them.)
  - dharmab 3y ago
    In this post, you're describing software that has a UI. How about some more screenshots or videos of it? Also, I know most readers are on mobile, but your site is _tiny_ on a desktop monitor.
mcv 3y ago
Well, that sent me down a rabbit hole of what the difference is, and apparently mastodons are part of the Mammut family while mammoths are part of the Elephant family. Biologists messed up there.

mplewis 3y ago

This is too bad, because I felt the ai images really took away from the content of the post.

tkellogg 3y ago
OP here. Sorry you had that experience. I recently started doing it. Prior to the AI images, I got a lot of complaints about a “wall of text”, so I was looking for a way to break it up, but also not invested enough to spend much time on it. AI images gives me a sort of 2-for-1, in that I get decent visuals, as well as accurate alt text. idk, maybe i should back off a bit. Suggestions welcome.
- ptx 3y ago
  The text seemed nicely broken up by the headings already, but maybe adding some syntax-colored code snippets (where relevant) would be another way to add some color to the visuals.
- thaumaturgy 3y ago
  If I may be a bit of a curmudgeon for a moment: I've read some number of posts like this recently that had AI-generated art embedded to "break it up", and I've found that the effect is skim skim squint at AI image skim squint at AI image scroll to end Partly this is because a fun game with AI images is to identify the weird things they do. They have an interesting effect where they look sooooort of okay if you don't actually look at them. In your post for instance, the first image has a wild not-actually-a-pteranodon at left, second image has twins at bottom-right but also is that a caveman partying with antlers on his head in the background?, third image -- what contraption is that wooly mammoth pulling, actually? And, once the novelty of playing "Find Ten Things Wrong With This Picture" wears off, then the images are exactly equivalent to embedded stock photography from Shutterstock or whatever. Oh look, it's shiny happy people at computers in the middle of an otherwise interesting essay on the transformer architectures of large language models. (I enjoyed the rest of the content of your post. Amazing how effectively these tools are becoming productivity multipliers for the people experimenting with them.)
- dharmab 3y ago
  In this post, you're describing software that has a UI. How about some more screenshots or videos of it? Also, I know most readers are on mobile, but your site is _tiny_ on a desktop monitor.

mcv 3y ago

Well, that sent me down a rabbit hole of what the difference is, and apparently mastodons are part of the Mammut family while mammoths are part of the Elephant family. Biologists messed up there.