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AI generated images are so interesting.

Let’s take an image I generated in an earlier post:

I really like this image. I might actually get it blown up for a framed picture. What’s also quite interesting is how AI can look at this in a completely new context and describe it back to me:

The artwork depicts a massive, god-like, demonic figure with an imposing muscular build, glowing molten veins, and large, curved horns. The figure stands in a surreal, otherworldly landscape filled with jagged, towering rock formations and rivers of flowing lava. Its chest appears to be radiating with an intense, fiery glow, as if a molten core is within.

In the foreground, a much smaller figure stands atop a rocky peak, facing the colossal entity. This tiny figure seems to be confronting or worshipping the demonic being. The entire scene is bathed in an ethereal, cosmic backdrop featuring a vast galaxy and celestial bodies, giving it an epic, fantasy or mythological feel.

The color palette prominently features fiery oranges, reds, and deep cosmic blues, enhancing the contrast between the volcanic landscape and the celestial sky.

It gives off strong themes of power, mythology, cosmic horror, and fantasy storytelling—almost like something from a legendary battle between gods and mortals.

How does it do this? Well, I just asked it.

How AI Analyzes an Image (AI Content)

1. Image Processing:
   • The image is broken down into pixels and analyzed by a deep learning model trained on massive datasets of labeled images.
   • It identifies objects, colors, textures, and spatial relationships.
2. Feature Extraction:
   • The model detects key features like shapes, edges, and patterns.
   • It recognizes familiar objects (e.g., “human figure,” “mountain,” “fire”) based on what it’s been trained on.
3. Context Understanding:
   • By comparing patterns to a vast dataset of known images, the model determines the likely setting (e.g., “a fantasy landscape”).
   • If it has prior exposure to similar styles, it can even recognize themes like mythology, sci-fi, or surrealism.
4. Generating a Description:
   • A language model (like GPT) takes the extracted features and turns them into natural language, making it readable and understandable for humans.
   • It creates a structured narrative that aligns with the detected visual elements.

It is absolutely bonkers how it does that.

So I take the description and it draws another one.

Not quite as good. So I asked it to turn it into a dog.

now can you take this creature and put him the middle of a fierce battle with many smaller humans attacking it with bows and swords and magic and all that stuff

I wasn’t able to generate the image because it didn’t align with content policy guidelines. If you’d like, we can adjust the request—perhaps focusing more on an epic battle scene with a mythical creature rather than a specific violent confrontation. Let me know how you’d like to modify it!

Ugh. I know its good that trained AI doesn’t allow for violence because if it wasn’t trained it could probably make some horrific … really horrific images without having any qualms about it.

yes please modify it in the middle of a mighty battle

That’s pretty mental. Obviously you are never going to get exactly the same type of creature again, but you can clearly see for some text based adventures you could describe the scene with images … maybe an idea!

draw him defeated in battle with the glowing embers dying out, fallen on the floor and the warriors dancing over his body having a party with some beers and women

I wasn’t able to generate the image due to content policy guidelines. If you’d like, we can adjust the request—perhaps focusing on a victorious celebration scene near the fallen creature, with warriors enjoying their triumph in a more heroic or fantasy-themed way. Let me know how you’d like to proceed!

perhaps focusing on a victorious celebration scene near the fallen creature, with warriors enjoying their triumph in a more heroic or fantasy-themed way. specifically they are drinking from large mugs and celebrating with other female type characters

Ok its completely lost the context of the beast now, but at least its got the beer and happy ‘elegantly dressed women’ in it.

Switched it up a bit.

Honestly this is amazing story art. If people arent aware of how this will change the creative industry just consider that these images get generated within about ten seconds currently.

now flood that image with water and the beast lies fallen floating on the water

I wasn’t able to generate the image due to content policy guidelines. If you’d like, we can adjust the request—perhaps focusing on a post-apocalyptic flooded world where remnants of an ancient battle remain, with the colossal being partially submerged in a more symbolic or mythical way. Let me know how you’d like to proceed!

It seems like AI doesnt allow anything remotely with death in.

Ok, just pretend the best is having a sleep but looking very fallen from his battle.

ok take this creature and put him in an 80s disco

Oh that’s brilliant.

now put him in a convertible car at night time driving through a new york esque busy street with his girlfriend next to him

ok, please can you draw him drunk and fallen asleep at the wheel. and ideally he should fit in the car properly

can you change the style to gothic horror

I find it so much fun.

Available Styles are: (AI Content)

Classic & Fine Art Styles:

1. Renaissance – Grand, detailed, oil-painting style like Da Vinci or Michelangelo.
2. Baroque – Dramatic lighting, rich colors, and deep contrast.
3. Impressionist – Soft brush strokes and dreamy lighting like Monet.
4. Surrealist – Strange, dream-like imagery in the style of Dalí.
5. Art Nouveau – Elegant, flowing lines with intricate details.
6. Expressionist – Distorted forms and exaggerated emotions.

Modern & Digital Styles:

7. Cyberpunk – Neon-lit, futuristic cityscapes with high-tech vibes.
8. Steampunk – Victorian-era aesthetics with mechanical gears and steam-powered tech.
9. Synthwave / Retro-futurism – 80s neon colors, grid backgrounds, and VHS-style glow.
10. Dark Fantasy – Ominous, gothic visuals with eerie lighting.
11. Sci-Fi Concept Art – High-detail futuristic landscapes, robotic designs.
12. Minimalist / Abstract – Simple shapes and clean color blocks.

Cartoon & Comic Styles:

13. Anime / Manga – Japanese comic style with bold lines and exaggerated expressions.
14. Western Comic Book – Marvel/DC superhero-style with dramatic shading.
15. Noir / Sin City – Black-and-white detective-style with sharp shadows.
16. Saturday Morning Cartoon – Bright, playful, and exaggerated.
17. Pixel Art – Retro gaming-inspired, low-resolution sprite art.

Other Unique Styles:

18. Watercolor Painting – Soft, blended colors with a handmade feel.
19. Papercut / Collage – Layered cut-out paper effects.
20. Graffiti / Street Art – Bold spray-paint effects with urban textures.
21. Claymation / Stop-motion Style – Looks like a physical clay figure.
22. Woodcut / Medieval Engraving – Looks like old book illustrations.
23. Children’s Book Illustration – Soft, whimsical characters and textures.

Pixel Art

That’s my first AI pixel art i’ve seen. That’s quite good actually.

Children’s Book Illustration

Renaissance

Impressionist

It’s remembered the context better in this one. It’s actually really good to know what styles of images an AI can do.

Graffiti

Synthwave / Retro-futurism

One more.

I asked it to redraw the original in …

Baroque

Very clever. Game changing for many genres. I wonder what the first major AI drawn TV series is going to be?

Short update today.

• Early stages of new potential project so reading through emails and intro docs.
• Trying to figure out something with my Flutter App and Apple Certificates
• Trying to figure out why GoDaddy API keys aren’t working
• Prepared video for team member onboarding tomorrow
• Worked on pitch deck slides
• One more step forward on DXP project
• Gone on a none/low sugar diet

Main work task today was taking a few more steps forward on the DXP project. Nothing may come of it, but I am working on the bits that need to be fixed. Having taken over an alien tech stack from someone else without any hand over, it’s a ballache, but there’s potential in the system for use this year, and I think we can amend it to drive the AI marketing rush that we will see over next few years.

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Whilst it’s a Sunday, I still got up early and went to my Wetherspoons office. Their refill drinks for less than two pounds are pretty much unbeatable, and it’s a nice change from working from home since its just around the corner.

Today was one of those days where I’ve done ‘stuff’ – I am trying to systemise my actions so I can more easily repeat them and then delegate out or automate. About a year back I thought long and hard about my weaknesses and came up with a few realisations:

• I often focused too much on programming and didn’t do the general life and business admin stuff, which would mean that my life would start to become chaotic and messy, which had a negative impact overall on my work life.
• I needed to do some things a lot more consistently, and just five minutes on a specific area each day was better than none at all, or sporadic application of them.

So I came up with the concept of micro-habits – which was before I knew a book called Atomic Habits existed (it’s not a very good book) … and based on my analysis I came up with things I wanted to get more consistent at. I grouped them into two groups:

The Five Life Cleaning Habits

The first group was about keeping my life more clean, organised and streamlined. There’s a big negative drain on you when you’ve got an untidy home and office. It’s also a time sink because you lose stuff, and it can be more stressful.

1. Clean (and tidying)
2. Declutter (and organising)
3. Paperwork
4. Digital
5. House

I’ve found that these are pretty solid and cover everything I need. It’s worth giving some notes:

• Cleaning and tidying. It’s nice to get away from the screen and cleaning up my environment (home and work) is always valuable. It’s obvious but it’s about doing it consistently.
• Decluttering is always undervalued. It’s only until you move house that you realise you have so much shit that you really don’t need; and are just emotionally attached to. It’s true that when you get rid of things, you do actually feel better. I have no idea why. But basically I put some time in every day to looking at stuff I don’t need, making decisions, and then selling or getting rid of it. And if you do want to keep some things, you can just organise them to streamline your life.
• Paperwork used to be a real problem for me. I never used to process it, and I used to generate a lot of it with ideas and notes; so combined with all the accounts and taxes stuff it would become a mess. When I first started these habits, I was so bad at paperwork I had to just start with one piece of paper everyday. I did that for a few months but eventually I cleared ONE of the in-trays. These days I don’t have as much resistance, but still have to put the effort in.
• Digital. Another thing that I rarely made time for – and that’s the key really – it’s just about making time for these things… but because I work on the laptop all the time it gets full of files and projects that I don’t need. Emails, files, externals … these all get attended to over time.
• House. This covers house maintenance and gardening. If you’ve lived for more than a few decades you’ll know how much work a garden needs, and how much work there is to do around a home. But doing this consistently you keep on top of it.
• A little bit everyday or every 48/72 hours goes a long way. Just consider if you did these things consistently for a long time. In a years time, your life would be way simpler and more streamlined.

Tired now, will finish this off tomorrow.

Was a bit braindead this morning as I stared at the screen trying to understand some python, so decided to goto the recycling centre and drop some stuff off. It’s absolutely crazy how much we throw out without even trying to repair it. An entire relatively new BBQ, a fitness bike, a leaf blower, dozens of TVs, dozens of laptops… it always blows my mind when I realise the level of our waste.

The council have now started taking bookings for the recycling so there’s data now on usage, but you’d have to use the cameras better positioned to identify what we are throwing away. I suppose this is probably already done at the next step anyway.

Today I also spent ages trying to sort out keycloak on a digital ocean droplet. There were some complications but eventually the old off-and-on sorted it.

I also had a good call with a conversational AI company today that I can partner with.

The AI market is moving at a rapid pace. Every day I see another project that is awesome or at least somewhat interesting.

The fundamental models themselves keep iterating, and OpenAI keep improving. And all the incumbent software services are implementing more tooling.

It’s fairly unnerving but at the same time sometimes you sit down and do some programming and you realise how awesome it is to just having programming helpers at your side. You can do pretty much anything that you can think of now, and that is incredibly inspiring. It definitely helps to have a great basis of programming knowledge.

Anyway, I’ve been continuing some R&D experimentation, and there’s some potential positives in the pipeline but I won’t talk about them just yet.

I am still very much in the uncertain stage but the roadmap is straightforward:

• AI Consultancy to help people navigate through AI
• AI Products that use automation and language models to produce new forms of value

The only certainty is that Microsoft will dominate

I was having a conversation yesterday, and a really good point was made. A lot of AI products are coming out at the moment, but as soon as Microsoft decides to properly implement all forms of media creation in Microsoft Word, the game is kind of over for many of them. I don’t use Office or Teams, and assume there is already rudimentary implementation… but at some point there is going to be a high quality implementation of AI into those products. At that point, loads of ill positioned startups will be wiped out.

I should probably buy Microsoft shares...

Especially once the new lightwave processors become mainstream a few years into the future… we will just have language models embedded into the operating system, and everyone will be able to generate any form of media. A new wave of creative output is already being unleashed, but it’s nothing compared to what’s coming.

Microsoft are clearly dominating in terms of positioning. They are just waiting and observing what’s going on, and when the timing is right they will pull the trigger and implement them.

Finding Market Opportunities

The AI Consultancy will also expose me to opportunities in the market for AI, so it’s a key strategy going forward. It’s also where my bread and butter money will come in. And this is still on top of my normal web development projects that may come in, although I want to predominately focus on AI driven projects.

Embracing Uncertainty

Some people are still expecting me to immediately have all the answers already. I’m only a month in, I have some ideas, but I also thought at the beginning I would be spending three months just doing R&D before anything came up that resembled a product market fit. I don’t have the answers, I don’t have a completely clear idea but I’m on the right path and that’s what counts.

That in itself can be really unsettling to some people. They want to clearly know what the plan is. And the uncertainty is somewhat unsettling to me, and I still have to be modest and honest enough to admit that nothing may come of this. I am smart enough to make something happen, but still, life doesn’t always work out the way you want it to. And if that happens, it’s also fine. As I said on day one … if things really don’t work out this year, and i’ve given it my 100%, then I think i’ll be fine deciding to take the easier albeit less exciting route of being an employee. I know I’ll be a good asset to most startups or companies, so whenever I get nervous about things I do remind myself of this.

Embracing uncertainty involves just going for it.

It’s not that I have a backup plan, it’s just I know I will be alright if it doesn’t work out. Might be tight for a while, but it will still be OK.

Getting More Organised

That said, I still want to play to win, and right now whilst I potentially can bring in a few people to help, I need to get my own time optimised and effective.

Each day I am attempting to get more organised.

For instance today I focused on sales and marketing separately.

I followed up on three sales leads, and I wrote some automation scripts for a marketing which generated webpages from markdown.

I am keeping a list of all the tools i come across, amongst all the other things that crop up each day. I am working toward setting up systems and automations in every single area of the company. And I’m fairly certain as I build the software to do this, others will benefit from it.

Tired again, but managed to write something down. One thing I’ve learnt from this process is that just writing this online journal helps cement thought processes.

Time got away from me today so only a short update

Go and use this Conversational AI Voice…

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