Getting an AI to make stuff up – Clutching At Straws: The Movie
So, I asked ChatGPT a question about a non-existant film… then decided to follow it up:
tell me all about the film "clutching at straws" which was based on the marillion album of the same name.
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Driven by You
If you were watching television in the early 1990s, chances are you heard Brian May’s “Driven By You” blaring from your speakers during a Ford car commercial. The song’s infectious chorus and driving rhythm made it an instant classic, but few people know the story behind how it came to be.
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Queen – Innuendo
Haven’t done one for a while, and as this is currently “on loud”, here we go.
Charlotte Reed
If you are going to get an AI to write a TV series, then you might as well get it to make up a fictional biography of the lead actor… and get some shonky AI image site to do the photos…
The British Rail “Flying Saucer”
Fifty years ago today (March 21st, 1973), British Rail was granted the most bizarre of patents… for a “Flying Saucer”!
You can read the whole thing here: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=GB&NR=1310990&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP#
Cold Pursuit
I asked ChatGPT:
invent me a new uk tv cop show with a young female dci looking at old and cold cases
The Pack Horse
Back in that time when we weren’t allowed to go to the pub because of Covid-19, I build my own. In miniature.
My ZX Spectrum Raspberry Pi Build
So, I decided to build a Pi based ZX Spectrum emulator, inside a ZX Spectrum case. Celebrating 40 years of the Spectrum and all that…
AllStar Node 57080
Node 57080 is my Allstarlink Lego Box Pi3B node, built, configured and sold to me by eBay user Willywoe. It allows me to connect to Hubnet and Echolink over t’internet from a small, low power 70cm band Amateur Radio walkie-talkie (Baofeng BF-88), if I’m within 50 metres of the house.
Seen here with ace technician Alasdair “Goggles” McTavish.