{"id":32395,"date":"2022-08-10T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32395"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:11:50","slug":"beethoven-meets-stravinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/08\/10\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky.html","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven Meets Stravinsky?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is strange, but what else should one expect of experimental AI technology that feigns sentience&#8230; I&#8217;d been having fun with cariyon.com, a text-to-image project that generated some humorous and sometimes awful results.<\/p>\n<p>I found another contender in the AI-imagery realm. Lithograph.com. I don&#8217;t know what went on here but somewhere in the machine some person, or some thing, or some blip of open-source\/public domain knowledge put Stravinsky and Beethoven together and came up with a pig snout stuffed between Stravinsky and his violin. No Beethoven to be found, unless there is a commentary being made here on Stravinsky&#8217;s feelings about Beethoven, or perhaps more specifically Beethoven&#8217;s Violin Concerto? That&#8217;s very&#8230; specific.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32397\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32397\" data-attachment-id=\"32397\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/08\/10\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky.html\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph-com\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beethoven Meets Stravinsky\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Beethoven Meets Stravinsky&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Beethoven Meets Stravinsky&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32397\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Beethoven Meets Stravinsky\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?resize=440%2C440&amp;ssl=1 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beethoven Meets Stravinsky<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is strange, but what else should one expect of experimental AI technology that feigns sentience&#8230; I&#8217;d been having fun with cariyon.com, a text-to-image project that generated some humorous and sometimes awful results. I found another contender in the AI-imagery realm. Lithograph.com. I don&#8217;t know what went on here but somewhere in the machine some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beethoven-meets-stravinsky_74417_lithograph.com.png?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8qv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32398,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395\/revisions\/32398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}