Bugs, features, opportunities

For the panel "AI in Education and Libraries: Taking Privacy, Security, and Equity into Account" Southeastern New York Library Resources Council

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1. Bugs,
   features,
   opportunities
   AI in Education and
   Libraries: Taking
   Privacy, Security,
   and Equity into
   Account
   Scarlet Galvan
   July 28, 2023
   

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2. A note on
   language
   kintsugi brain
   

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3. Deep Dinosaur,
   Chris Rodley, 2017
   

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6. Bugs vs features
   “...trained it [the AI] on a sizable set of unfiltered data from across the
   internet…To be more precise, the man-made unfiltered data sourced
   online introduced the model to the existing biases of humankind. The
   creators acknowledge the possibility of societal biases.”
   Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental
   generation of nudes. Haje Jan Kamps, Tech Crunch, December 12, 2022.
   https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/06/prisma-ai-regulation/
   

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7. The solar
   system made
   of pressed
   flowers
   

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8. Looking inside a black box
   /imagine: generate an image based on a text prompt
   /describe: image-to-text, used to develop text prompts
   /shorten: analyzes the text prompt and assigns scores to each word
   

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9. different cuts
   of gemstones
   arranged by
   color technical
   illustration
   pencil
   

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10. Human heart
    by Lisa Frank
    

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11. Cyberpunk
    flea market at
    night
    

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12. /describe
    a young black woman sitting in a chair with
    glasses, in the style of gothic black and
    white, genderless, claire-obscure lighting,
    writer academia, spiky mounds, detailed
    facial features, sparse and simple --ar 4:3
    spencer, i'm sorry for having so many
    questions about so many things, in the style
    of woodland goth, object portraiture
    specialist, queer academia, black and white
    grayscale, writer academia, norah
    mcguinness, tightly cropped compositions --
    ar 4:3
    

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13. /imagine
    spencer, i'm sorry for having so
    many questions about so many
    things, in the style of woodland
    goth, object portraiture specialist,
    queer academia, black and white
    grayscale, writer academia, norah
    mcguinness, tightly cropped
    compositions --ar 4:3
    

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14. /describe
    unapologetic grit
    i can’t believe how beautiful this is
    -core
    

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15. Room 12, Christopher Manson, 1985
    

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16. /describe
    the house of the dead, an amazing drawing about a room with a large
    number of rooms, in the style of rene magritte, tarot card, microfilm,
    monochromatic realism, industrial angles, bentwood, group f/64 --ar
    31:25
    a drawing on an antique black and white etching, in the style of trompe
    l'oeil illusions, 2d game art, confessional, surprisingly absurd, vibrant
    stage backdrops, numerical complexity, contest winner --ar 31:25
    

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17. The Wounded Angel, Hugo Simberg, 1903
    

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18. /describe
    two boys carrying an angel on their shoulders, in the style of heavy use
    of palette knives, white and beige, rural life depictions, 1860–1969,
    primitivist realism, somber mood, working-class empathy --ar 5:4
    two paintings are shown with angels being carried by two boys, in the
    style of rural america, dark white and beige, working-class empathy,
    quietly morbid, full body, prairiecore, realist detail --ar 5:4
    

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19. /shorten
    Assigns scores to each word in the prompt and highlights the words
    with the highest score. It eliminates conversational language between
    users and the Midjourney bot.
    

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20. Coming soon
    to a platform
    trading on
    your trust!
    

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