Yes, your favourite Volcano-dwelling feline has discovered... AI. When he discovered Arty-Fishal Intelligence wasn't about actual fish, well - never mind that, the challenge? Could we, Volcano Cat asked, use this AI to produce alternative images for every 'official' Bond movie? It sounded easy enough; we went with Microsoft's 'Bing' (Now called Copilot, possibly the worst name since 'Bing') because A: It's there and B: We're too cheap to spring for Midjourney. And we're posting the results of our labor in several instalments. Because we can. Was the challenge easy? No; as the more up to date among you will know, to get an AI program/app/thingummibob to generate an image, you need to feed it a 'prompt'. Like commissioning a Human artist, you have to ask for what you need. And 'Copilot' is EXTREMELY edgy regards 'unsafe content'. I mean, it's not like we asked for nudes of Roger Moore - (Ok, just that one time) but enter 'bullet holes' for instance and Copilot is not a happy AI. So, 'identically shaped small holes' it was. And so forth; even the names of actual Actors are a no-no, but the input 'James Bond' gets you Daniel Craig. To say this was the hardest part of VC's AI Challenge is putting it mildly... But we're not quitters, so here's Part One!
That's our first five; we're not happy with 'Goldfinger' to be brutally honest (Or honestly brutal) , but these are our pick from MANY images we exhorted, persuaded, extorted Copilot to produce. And - of course, we made sure a certain Angora cat featured. If you think VC looks grumpy in this? You should have seen some of the others... Look out for Part Two soon!
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