Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

[judgeurko]

AI can go to hell

AI's response:

weird

[AlexF]

Honestly, I am both excited by the Sci-Fi special mash-up idea, exactly the sort of thing Sci-Fi specials should be for,
and also tickled by those instant AI efforts, Funt! But I'm aware it's going to be a rather steep slope from me pointing and laughing at the AI crudeness today, to me licking the (rust-proof) boots of a robot master tomorrow.

I'm gently predicitng that AI art and writing will be fashionable for a couple of years, and then human creativity will come back to the fore, and then we'll settle down into a sort of hybrid thing where we all accept that a human prompting and tweaking an AI generator is still art.

[judgeurko]

and then we'll settle down into a sort of hybrid thing where we all accept that a human prompting and tweaking an AI generator is still art.

I will never accept.

[Dash Decent]

Okay, there's Doyle.  Where's Bodie?

I prompted the AI thusly: "Bodie and Doyle from The Professionals, but both dressed up as a Judge from the world of Judge Dredd."

And it did this:



(Or did I just take a photo at Dounreay-Con?)

Putting the "eye" in A.I.

[broodblik]

Coming to the prog in July:

Incredible SF action from the Eisner-nominated UK anthology! A mysterious stranger comes to Mega-City One in Judge Dredd: "The Bam-Hunters" by Ken Niemand & Neil Googe, and then there's a robot uprising in "Machine Rule" by John Wagner & Colin MacNeil; Bridget obsessively interrogates in Brink: "Consumed" by Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard; Rogue Trooper follows a voice on the airwaves in "Souther Belle," by Geoffrey D. Wessel & Dan Cornwell; and there's two new series in the shape of folk-horror thriller Herne & Shuck: Suffer the Children by David Barnett & Lee Milmore, and alien apocalypse "Silver" by Mike Carroll & Joe Currie!

[broodblik]

Coming to the Meg in July:

More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! An alien entity is loose in Mega-City One in "Hive" by Ian Edginton & Kevin West; Brit-Cit detective Armitage has an old enemy gunning for him in in "Bullets For an Old Man" by Liam Johnson & Warren Pleece; there's more action on the streets of Cal-Hab in Harrower Squad: "Urban Rotation" by David Baillie & Steve Yeowell; the presence of a Judge initiates a night of violence in Dreadnoughts: "Nothing to Fear" by Mike Carroll & John Higgins; and there's psychic criminality in Mega-City 2099: "The Cuckoos" by Ken Niemand & Conor Boyle. Plus interviews, features and much more!

[IndigoPrime]

The first 2099 cover.