Experiments with AI Images
In
September 2023, I spoke to the National Association of Government Web
Professionals. My topic was "The Tectonic Speed of Government"
(natch!)
My speech employed lots of the ideas I've written about on this site, and I wanted to deploy images PechaKucha style (for more on that: https://blog.tectonicspeed.com/2020/07/tectonic-speed-of-government-pechakucha.html).
I decided to try out the new Bing Image Creator to replace the images I've used in the past. And WOW!
What
follows are the images I used, with Attributions and AI Prompts. Most
images are from Bing Image Creator, so the AI Prompts precede them. Prompts are in italics.
Images
from the web are attributed as closely as possible. The examples of
websites both early (1996!) and recent (City of Urbana's current) were
from my use of government websites as an example of a tectonic shift...
for the audience of the talk.
"tectonic plates of the earth grinding slowly landscape forming mountains"
"earthquake tectonic plates crack"
St. Augustine Website from 1996 -- the "historic" part is even more true now!
From the Internet Archive - https://web.archive.org/web/19961112232502/http://www.oldcity.com/
As of September 2023, Urbana City Website: https://urbanaillinois.us
(soon to be https://urbanail.gov)
"oil painting about woman working from home during the pandemic feeling isolated"
"Artificial Intelligence as an earthquake for websites"
"technology underlies City government services cartoon"
The Iron Triangle - https://goodipidea.com/2016/12/04/the-iron-triangle
"wide shot strongest man contest pulling a train forward down the tracks old-time B&W"
2010 Olympics Curling
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_Winter_Olympics_-_Curling_-_Women_-_USA.jpg
AI really had trouble with "Curling Brooms" so I fell back on a Creative Commons picture
"person wading through deep water, pointillism"
"first person walking out onto a bridge they just built over a chasm"
"waxing and polishing a car, photography"
"earthquake tectonic plates crack in style of van Gogh"
"three things for cyber security in style of Picasso"
Here are the three IT security tips!
1) Use a password manager and let it generate complex and different passwords for all of your sites. Change ALL of your passwords when you do this.
2) Protect your data (encryption, passwords, etc.) and ORGANIZE your data! For more on this:
- Personal data edition: https://blog.tectonicspeed.com/2017/09/personal-archiving-get-your-shit.html
- Work data edition: https://blog.tectonicspeed.com/2020/08/get-your-shit-together-work-edition.html
3)
Keep work and home email separate. Use multiple email accounts for
home: one for the Internet (purchases, subscriptions) and one for
friends and family. For more on email accounts and similar advice: https://blog.tectonicspeed.com/2019/03/advice-from-your-it-director.html