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

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Experiments

Experiments I’ve run with AI, with the prompts, results, and the assumptions that didn’t survive.

Latest in Experiments

3 stories

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.