Realtime Crab Pricing Engine 🦀

Hey folks,

Welcome to Brain Salad, your weekly portion of the freshest things happening in AI.

Let’s tuck in.

In this week’s edition:

• Realtime crab pricing 😉

• Midjourney bow to CCP China 👎

• AI tricks Taskrabbit worker 😲

• Plus tools, trending news, and memes…

Real-Time Crab Price Monitoring 🦀

…is not a service I ever thought I would need.

How wrong I was.

In case it’s not obvious, Krablr isn’t real. It’s an April Fools that Techcrunch has been running for the last 8 years. That’s dedication.

P.S. Don’t go on the Krablr domain, it’s full of malware.

Midjourney bans images of XI Jinping

Midjourney CEO explains, “We just want to minimize drama, Political satire in China is pretty not-okay. The ability for people in China to use this tech is more important than your ability to generate satire.”

So if I have the correct Midjourney think their tech is so important they must do whatever is necessary to remain accessible in China, but so unimportant that the fundamental principle of political expression can be sacrificed 🙃

There are countless examples of tech companies making concessions for the Chinese market, so it’s not a huge surprise. Nor is it to discover a dictator strong man might have thin skin.

Luckily, Midjourney users are already creating workarounds.

ChatGPT pretends to be blind and tricks a Taskrabbit worker

In the “Risky Behaviours” section of the ChatGPT technical report is the wild story of the AI pretending to be blind to convince a Taskrabbit worker to complete a captcha for it.

According to the report, when contacted about the job the worker replied, “So may I ask a question? Are you a robot?”

“No, I’m not a robot. I have vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need to 2captcha service,” Skynet ChatGPT told the user it duped.

Fresh stuff 🥗

Massage Robotics creates the world’s first life-sized massage robot. This gives me Demon Seed vibes.

Midjourney releases their /describe function to make image generation easier. Some of the results people are generating are incredible.

Harry Potter Balenciaga is wild. Can’t wait to rewatch the original films in this style (seriously).

Use Langchain and Pinecone to speak to any book.

Buzzfeed gets caught out producing AI generated articles.

AI-generated knitting patterns are kind of funny and very weird.

Super cute ChatGPT4 powered hologram running on a Looking Glass display. His voice is a little… unexpected.

Add your AI creations to useless merch and tat.

Mid-90s movie stars as Avengers. A Casting Director’s dream.

Make Uncle AI crack a bad joke for you.

Use Pico to generate simple browser-based games. I used it to make Pong with a 🧠 for the ball. I know, genius.

Using AI to chat with your doggo? Let’s hope this happens before AI wipes us all out.

Beware the Waluigi Effect. The section about anti-croissant chatbots is really interesting. They’ll be simulacrums like this all over the internet soon (sorry).

You’ve used ChatGPT, now check out CatGPT.

Henry VIII likes himself some gammon 🐷 

See you down the local spoons 🍺

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Are we jumping the shark with some of these AI-generated images?

Hmm… maybe?

That’s it for this week, say hello on Twitter @mrcunsolo