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Via MAI-Image-1. A silhouetted figure explores a crystalline landscape filled with towering refractive spires, glinting in the light of a binary star. Tones of cyan, pink, and gray combine tentatively, as though suggesting opalescence.
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Via gpt-4o. Two figures, one gigantic, on the horizon, the other smaller, nearby, staring at one another. In pinks and purples. The landscape is broken with loopy holes in many of the plants and structures presented, as though they were hollow.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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#aiart prompt 1073: Stranger in a strange land. Wide shot, some distance from the subject. Bizarre; alien; unreal.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They each, generally, depict a silhouetted person standing amidst a surreal, alien landscape. The first image has pinks, yellows, and blues; large, fan-like coral structures tower on the horizon against a cloudy sky. More coral towers, with closer mega-mushrooms. The foreground contains some intriguing looping plants. The stranger is standing on one of many globular structures, evocative of a brain’s folded membranes. The sky is dominated by a planet and several moons. More coral growths, and perhaps some cabbage-like plants in the foreground. Spiral clouds in the distance.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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MAI-Image-1 rather failed at the mixed context. We’ve got a very chrome knight standing guard in an impressive medieval setting. Great! His armor, and its reflectiveness, is similar to Dall-E’s interpretation of bad, low budget schlock. He’s wearing a large, slightly winged helm. Where the image fails is his weapon: a rather bog-standard pike, albeit one that rather resembles a jousting lance. No attempt made at interpreting the “laser” portion of the prompt.
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Via gpt-4o. This knight is standing in front of a more open interior space: a few other courtiers can be seen, blurred, in the background. His armor is much more muted, darker, matte, and realistic than the chrome suits generated by Dall-E. Which would suit a more realistic, modern film striving for accuracy, where Dall-E’s more accurately represents bad, low-budget, inaccurate mid-century schlock. In any event: his armor is shiny, but not overly so. Plus, he’s wearing a somewhat conical helmet over his shaggy hair. His weapon best represents a “laser pike”: a physical, metal shaft, a small emitter at the end, and then a red blade about a foot long. The blade looks a bit bent off true wrt the shaft, but points for being a pike, at least.
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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#aiart prompt 1072: A brightly lit court: a knight wearing extremely shiny, chrome, plate armor, stands watch with a laser pike; he has shoulder length hair and a handlebar mustache. In mid-century, slightly desaturated technicolor; low depth of field.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. Generally, they struggle to realize the sci-fi aspect of the prompt, though fail rather admirably; otherwise, reasonable interpretations of the setting and subject. The first knight holds what looks like an ornate zweihander: chrome pommel, a red laser blade; a hand grip in chrome, and a main blade in cyan. Silly and impractical, but fun. The character somewhat resembles 90s era Cary Elwes. This knight stands in front of two groups of seated, tuxedoed men. The device he wields seems to have a secondary shaft separated from the main grip shaft. The secondary shaft appears to end in a mace head that might have some laser emitting potential. This fellow also has a rather massive chain-mail neck guard above the plate armor. Shiny reflections! The two previous knights’ “laser pikes” didn’t really cast light; the device this fellow wields, however, reflects off his immaculate chrome armor. It’s more of a laser sword, though. He seems to be holding a helmet in his left hand, nestled in the crook of his elbow; he holds the weapon in his right, across his chest. He gazes at the camera, challenging, as though wanting you to acknowledge how badass he thinks he is. The “court” here has a massive, vibrant red carpet, which contrasts with the weapon color. Another sword-like weapon, with a cyan blade. There is some reflection in the armor, but less than the third image. Like the third, this knight appears to be challenging the camera. He’s standing in front of a raised dais, in front of the steps leading up to it. More medieval court vibes than the previous images.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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MAI-Image-1, *ahem*, decided to interpret “stray” in a much less conventional fashion compared to the other two models: a man in a hooded jacket sits on s chair on a balcony, looking outward. A nearby power transformer pole snakes wires out toward nearby buildings. This feels a bit closer to street level.
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Via gpt-4o. A darker, quieter scene: less claustrophobic than Dall-E; more of a traditional, modern urban environment. A few neon signs, but not overpowering. The cat, in silhouette, sits on a railing, though not on the outermost part of the balcony.
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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#aiart prompt 1071: Night, a mid-level balcony in the projects; wires and cables crisscross the air between buildings; neon and holographic signs advertise useless schlock. Heavy snow falls, muting and dimming perspective. A stray sits, contemplating the view.

#Caturday
These four images generated by Dall-E 3. They generally show an air gap between tall buildings in a dense urban environment, decked with bright neon signs. Snowy. Each has a cat sitting on a balcony. In this one, the balcony is on the lower right, the cat sitting on the balustrade. Similar to the first. The balcony is closer, and appears larger, though we do not see any of the unit to which it is attached. This puts the cat, slightly larger, slightly right of center. Further away from the balcony, but more directly above it. The cat is more silhouette in this image, backlit by the bright air between the buildings. The cat is sitting on the balcony, itself, here, rather than on the balustrade. Further back from the edge, too. The image appears to be taken from another balcony overlooking the scene.
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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This incredibly dark image created by gpt-4o. A few abstract, three dimensional shapes—sort of extruded and slightly twisted trapezoids—in the described colors, but very dark, hard to discern from the surrounding dark.
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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#aiart prompt 1070: Dark gray, black deep brown, a hint of dull crimson: shapes emerge, segueing from the darkness.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They are all rather abstract, showing circular/oval overlapping objects disappearing into the surrounding dark in the colors described in the prompt. This has a bit more curvature, and is a bit brighter. A sort of abstract, layered swoosh. Almost an abstract representation of flame, surrounded by smoke. Nice layered dimensionality. Darker curves and loops.
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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A slightly more abstract image by MAI-Image-1. It appears to be a studio, possibly a bit melted. There’s an extremely large speaker on the left—like in the beginning of Back to the Future—and a couple of synths and keyboards on the right. The air is filled with cyan arcs of electricity, suggesting oscilloscope visualizations; a large arc covers the center of the image, running diagonally from bottom left to top right. The image otherwise has pink/purple lighting accents.
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Via gpt-4o. A sort of electronic album cover, with the text, center top, “SING THE WIRE”, in a magenta gradient. A male guitarist on an electric guitar, long haired, wearing glasses and a denim jacket, plays near some stacked audio equipment. He’s highlighted in a pinkish glow. The overall image has a sort of pink/purple/blue 80s sci-if vibe, complete with a glowing grid-line floor in those colors.
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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#aiart prompt 1069: Heavy on the bass and reverb; synths for days! Sing the wire electric.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They generally depict a live stage performance of one or more rock musicians in fanciful settings. In the first, a slightly demonic figure kneels, head thrown back, absolutely shredding an electric guitar. The stage he’s on is littered with effects pedals, synthesizer equipment, speakers, and other such devices, connected by a web of cables. The background shows a massive fantastical tower during a thunderstorm. Close up of a mail guitarist with long hair singing into a microphone, near a synth. His attire looks as though it were out of Horizon: Zero Dawn: full of feathers and turquoise tribal weaves. Inexplicably, a shoal of fish fly through the air on the left. A long haired guitarist jamming while sort of mantling over some stage hardware. He appears to be wearing tight fitting pants and a t-shirt. The background, amidst numerous flashes of electricity, shows an alien landscape with spherical growths and spires. A large sphere—perhaps a moon?—hangs in the sky on the upper right. About five musicians on raised platforms extending out into the audience, staggered into the distance; the background musicians are playing guitars, while the foreground artist is on a keyboard. The stage nearby has numerous synths and audio equipment. The sky is split: on the left, a bright orb of yellowish light; on the right: a psychedelic series of fanciful spirals.
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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These four generated by Dall-E 3. They are a bit more abstract and inaccurate wrt depicting a hexagonal grid. The first has what appear to be translucent cubes with gilt edges, stacked upon on another; these are predominantly cyan at the bottom, amber toward the top. A spherical object with mostly hexagonal facets, lit from within. The top of the object is cyan, the bottom amber. Edge lit cubes stacked haphazardly on each other. Their cores are black. The top and central cubes appear in amber; these are predominantly bottom left and right corners are cyan. A top down view of a (mostly) hexagonal grid stretching to infinity, with gilt edges. The cells at the bottom, closer to the camera, are cyan; these transition half way up to amber, which continues to the top. The top of the image is very blurred.
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Via MAI-Image-1. A hexagonal grid of a dark, matte material, framing faceted inset glass chunks, randomly arranged, in cyan and amber. Predominantly backlit toward the center, with the hexagonal cells toward the edges darker.
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#aiart prompt 1068: Hexagonal grid in amber and cyan; each hex is translucent to varying degrees; backlit; low depth of field; high contrast.
Generated by gpt-4o. A slightly out of focus, close up view of a hexagonal grid in black silhouette. The grid appears to house translucent glass, slightly dirty, within its lattice. Behind the grid, very out of focus, a series of independent lights shining through the grid: these are predominantly cyans on the right, and ambers on the left, although a few opposites are mixed in.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Via gpt-4o. This dragon is a bit more anthropomorphic; it appears to be walking along, wearing a crooked brown fedora and sunglasses. He’s got an entourage of incredibly, derpy fans: four beings: a green-haired fairy, a faun, a sort of house elf from the franchise that will not be named, and a dog or cat, clockwise, starting from top left.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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These four generated by Dall-E 3. They generally show a green and gold dragon sitting on a cliff overlooking a craggy river valley, looking pretty pleased with itself. The first has crossed four paws and neat gold detailing on its green scales. The second’s wings are raised. It looks a bit pensive. Nice backlit glow through the raised wing on this dragon. A ridge of golden spines runs down its back from its shoulders. Totally vibing. Crossed paws, looking pleased. I like this dragon a lot, if it weren’t for the missing hind legs and the abrupt segue to beefy tail. Neat swirly gold patterning on the scales.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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#aiart prompt 1067: He is the most interesting dragon in the world.

#DragonTuesday
Generated by MAI-Image-1. A green and gold dragon, sitting on all legs on some rocks overlooking the ocean; three quarters view, with the dragon looking toward the camera. Its wings are raised slightly. It’s wearing a satchel on the left, a scarf around its neck near its shoulders, and a monocle over its left eye. Very dapper.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Via MAI-Image-1. The background is very nicely out-of-focus, showcasing a distant forested shore. The image is streaked with vertical, gray to black lines of variable thickness.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Via gpt-4o. Very blurry and out of focus. The background suggests two distant forested landscapes, lost in blur. The foreground is covered by black lines, two of which form a sort of V-shape on the left, also out-of-focus.
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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#aiart prompt 1066: A lake and woods; cold lighting; cyanotype; completely blurred and out of focus. Overlaying: random, black, vertical striations; fuzzed and blended.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. Generally, they adhere to the setting described by the prompt, and have an interpretation of the distortion to some extent. In the first, the lake takes up the lower half of the image, and disappears behind a hill. The background has a striated tree line, reflected down into the water. While some of the trees are distorted here, most of the noticeable streaks occur within the reflections within the water. The water itself is textured with what appear to be fallen leaves. Similar to the second. The lake looks like it might be covered by gauze. A large conifer, growing from off-screen, dominates the near foreground on the upper left. Streaky trees above, but the real magic is dark black lines below, reminiscent of a graph of electric current in a noisy electronic device, as on an oscilloscope.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Via MAI-Image-1. More photorealistic, with reflections in the water. Nicely generated mountains in the background. The stone head, properly hovering, is a composite of at least four partial heads and necks fused together; there’s the implication that this continues all around. Each has a full face, with glowing cyan eyes.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Via gpt-4o. A much more painted, and warm, image. This stone head has a neck, and is also noticeably hovering, which the Dall-E heads didn’t. It’s cleaved into two faces, one looking to the left, the other right.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM