Merry Christmas 2023

“Santa in space” series for 2023 (click to see full-size image)

My holiday card this year in the cosmic greetings, Santa-in-Space series.

What another year …

how to handle the challenge of cheer?
so, Santa’s adapted, got some new gear
amidst all the clutter & clatter,
swiftly gauging every matter

even the Claus is down with AI,
for transport does he deftly rely
to artfully supervise a lot,
answering wishes by merry chatbot

With hands off the reins likely as not,
trusting his beta auto-pilot
to do all the choreography,
he monitors AI jollity

1 comment

  1. AI artwork

    So, I have yet to use AI to create any of my holiday cards – any part of or the whole image. But this article (below) got me wondering if others are doing so. And whether the process is ready for “mere mortals” – in this case, involving 3 commercial (paid) AI programs and a learning curve.

    • Washington Post > “My AI Christmas card is totally fake — but the joy is real” by Geoffrey A. Fowler (December 13, 2023) – Making an AI Christmas card helped me see not only the limitations of AI, but also its possibilities.

    … when has the holiday card, that stressful annual performance of family joy, been entirely about reality?

    AI selfie-generating app Lensa added a Christmas option that lets you transform yourself into a snow bunny or hunky Santa. And Coca-Cola has a website where you can use a version of OpenAI’s DALL-E image generator to make the soda brand’s classic Santa do whatever you want …

    While making my Christmas card, biases baked into AI software reared their ugly head … Yet it’s also true that my final product was a total delight. . [although] Making my Christmas card with AI was a lot of work [$49 and a lot of free time].

    DALL-E won’t intentionally let you re-create the likeness of a real person, a guardrail against deepfakes … I turned to a dedicated AI avatar program to make my family’s faces, the Lensa app.

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