GIO AND
THE MACHINE
A human doing cool stuff with AI.Experiments, builds, breakdowns, and the occasional existential detour.

The journal / AI

AI

My experience working with AI: building things, testing its answers, and learning where I still need to step in.

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7 stories

  • / 11 min read

    Writing a stranger's biography

    I asked several chatbots to dig into the guy writing this blog, never telling them it was me. One followed the breadcrumbs to a nickname I dropped in 2003, and drew me a detective board with red string.

  • / 11 min read

    The AI's sense of beauty

    I asked eight image models for a beautiful picture, 64 times. They agree on lakes and sunsets. They also agree that a person alone in a beautiful picture is always a woman. Black people never appear.

  • / 13 min read

    Teaching AI to name things

    Finding a name for my biggest project took six AI agents, hundreds of rejects, and a lot of correcting the AI's taste. Here's how that assembly line worked.

  • / 8 min read

    Because the AI said so

    This blog is itself a project built with AI. At some point it stopped publishing, and nothing told me. I had to open this page to realize it wasn't working. That is unacceptable.

  • / 2 min read

    Hello new world

    One person can now build things that used to take a team years. Excited to see where this will take us.