Generative AI and OA

[DSPE]

Looking forward to it!

[Godd Howard]

Just finished a course I was doing. I should be able to get a draft up by next friday.

[DSPE]

Just finished a course I was doing. I should be able to get a draft up by next friday.

cool 

[sandcastles]

Has anybody taken a photo of some real-world thing and presented it as an OA scene of something? I had a potato which got too old and grew some weird-looking eyes, it was wrapped in plastic, I took a photo and might post it as being an asteroid colonized by some ahuman foglets or something, I haven't decided. I guess I should change the background to something other than a paper towel.
I have a marble table whose surface looks like a desert planet. I haven't decided which one.

I'm sorry to be neglecting those many topics I've started, but I find Chatgpt and CoPilot to be helpful with writer's block, but...sigh. What's the attitude and policy about that? What I post should only be written by me, but...? I'm sure you can guess my questions.

[Worldtree]

Has anybody taken a photo of some real-world thing and presented it as an OA scene of something?  I had a potato which got too old and grew some weird-looking eyes, it was wrapped in plastic, I took a photo and might post it as being an asteroid colonized by some ahuman foglets or something, I haven't decided. I guess I should change the background to something other than a paper towel.
I have a marble table whose surface looks like a desert planet. I haven't decided which one.

I'm sorry to be neglecting those many topics I've started, but I find Chatgpt and CoPilot to be helpful with writer's block, but...sigh.  What's the attitude and policy about that?  What I post should only be written by me, but...?  I'm sure you can guess my questions.

if you want to present a potato asteroid here, go for it.

with writing, as long as it's decently written and coherent and canon compliant, go ahead and post it

[stevebowers]

Has anybody taken a photo of some real-world thing and presented it as an OA scene of something? 

A few times, yes. Here's an Europan-type world that includes the palm of my hand as part of the texture.

[ProxCenBound]

I'm sorry to be neglecting those many topics I've started, but I find Chatgpt and CoPilot to be helpful with writer's block, but...sigh.  What's the attitude and policy about that?  What I post should only be written by me, but...?  I'm sure you can guess my questions.

Perhaps we should discuss this more as a group but personally I would want you to be heavily involved in the process, either writing text that the tools merely polish up for copyediting, or using their text for inspiration but editing it heavily. These things have a tendency to generate lots of text that is nowhere near canon-compliant and we can't be expected to review such bulk when we have plenty of material from human contributors.

[MiyuwiAuthor]

Has anybody taken a photo of some real-world thing and presented it as an OA scene of something?  I had a potato which got too old and grew some weird-looking eyes, it was wrapped in plastic, I took a photo and might post it as being an asteroid colonized by some ahuman foglets or something, I haven't decided. I guess I should change the background to something other than a paper towel.
I have a marble table whose surface looks like a desert planet. I haven't decided which one. 

I have had such ideas before, but never went anywhere with them.

[Drashner1]

Has anybody taken a photo of some real-world thing and presented it as an OA scene of something?  I had a potato which got too old and grew some weird-looking eyes, it was wrapped in plastic, I took a photo and might post it as being an asteroid colonized by some ahuman foglets or something, I haven't decided. I guess I should change the background to something other than a paper towel.
I have a marble table whose surface looks like a desert planet. I haven't decided which one.

The fourth image down on https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464dd76c7cc27 (Canaria) is made using a picture I took of Mount Denali in Alaska which Steve Bowers than added a gas giant to.

So the short answer to your question is 'yes'. Personally, I have no problem with this kind of thing as long as the RL nature of the image is not at all obvious.

Re your question re use of AI in article writing. I have thoughts, but going to initially post those to the other Editors. If/when the discussion or its results go public, I'm sure y'all will see the results.

Thanks!

Todd

[stevebowers]

My recent image for the Calendars article was originally based on a Microsoft Copilot prompt, but the numbers turned out to be random numbers on a twelve-hour clock. So I had to replace the clock face altogether.