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California Dreamin’ With an AI Image Generator

You don’t always get what you ask for, but maybe that’s okay

Space case the Golden Retriever. Image created by author using Fotor.

Well, color me intrigued.

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This, from the Celtic Chameleon a few days ago, got me thinking about the glorious, whimsical, or oddball creatures doing strange things in strange places at night in my dreams. So often, I wake up wishing I could press “record” on my magnificent nocturnal creations. Movies with characters and plots so enticing and incredible it’s a damn shame they’re lost forever mere seconds after I wake up.

That will probably never change, because I’d have to keep my phone by my bed, grab it instantly on waking, and jot down or voice record the highlights before they evaporate like morning mist in the rising sun.

I’m not going to do that because I’d wake up the husband. Or worse, the dogs.

AI dreams

Instead, we have a new option for creating fantastic beasts and incredible events — image-generating AI. It’s as…