{"id":59169,"date":"2023-04-10T03:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T03:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59169"},"modified":"2023-04-19T06:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T06:32:22","slug":"hpl-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/hpl-at-65\/","title":{"rendered":"HPL at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"

What might have been… a well-fed and hairpiece-augmented Lovecraft imagined at age 65, at the end of a career as the venerable and respected astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto.<\/p>\n

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In this alt. history picture one might imagine that it’s 1956 and his retirement portrait is to adorn the newly-built hallways of NASA. As a writer, in his youth he published a few classic Dunsanian fantasy tales, but then fell silent in fiction. Yet he has just published a slim volume expounding a curious new ‘cosmic’ philosophy, a work said to be exciting some keen interest among European intellectuals.<\/p>\n

The picture is more ‘Nick Cage plays Lovecraft’ than Lovecraft, perhaps, but that’s one of the tendencies that Wombo veers towards. The other is Buster Keaton. An AI isn’t making visual distinctions, it just knows a certain set of facial images are associated with the keywords 1920s<\/em> (Keaton) and with Lovecraft<\/em> (Cage). There are three ways I know of to control that. One is luck and a good text prompt. The other is a knockout word presented as $Buster$<\/em> and the other is to upload a ‘seed’ image of the real Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Dream by Wombo AI and Photoshop. I know I said I’d keep AI generated images off Tentaclii<\/em>, but it’s getting so good now…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What might have been… a well-fed and hairpiece-augmented Lovecraft imagined at age 65, at the end of a career as …<\/p>\n

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