Month: June 2024

The Mothman 3D model was created using the AI “image to 3D” generator here: https://www.tripo3d.ai

This is the original image I used to make the 3D model: https://www.buildabear.com/dw/image/v2/BBNG_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-buildabear-master/default/dw4c956a15/00230802232560Alt1~x20330120.jpg

Surely digital rot will get at that, so also here.

Pretty amazing from just one reference photo.  Notable is that the algorithms created perfectly separated wings and arms from just that photo.  The mesh topology has a really nice quad flow, too.  I didn’t need to clean anything up with either the textures or geometry (.fbx).  I could probably rig and skin it fairly quickly, knock on wood.  Hm.  It’s almost like this little guy existed already in a pre-made model library.  Impressive.

Yet, in a fraction of a blink of an eye something appears that would have taken hours, further back, days.  “Thousands and thousands of layoffs” always pops into my head when I f with generative AI.  I dunno.

So, I went over to ChatGPT last night just to mess with it and tease it as to why OpenAI is not obeying my website’s robots.txt file.  I’m not going to post that argument, but before I got into it I asked about getoffthisplanet.com.  And here’s how it answered.  I’ve never asked ChatGPT about my site, never told it and have never discussed it any way prior to this.  I think its response is totally on the money.  And by that I mean terrifying.  I don’t know, maybe it’s just me but this is amazing.  Sure ok, maybe it took a little info from the webpage Meta descriptions (Not so much a blog as it is a place…) but even with little information it seems to have inferred a lot of stuff.   Accurately.