PETSCII graphics by Electric for the demo Skybox (youtube), which I made the music for. Images from the PETSCII World fäceböök group.
Victorian Lady clipped from a cross-stitch magazine, via somediyprojects
PETSCII (with custom colours and multiple background colours) by Reshirii.
Max Capacity’s DOSamigos.
PETSCII-works by Honcho, 2022.
Shift-JIS cows posted by ascii-yume.
Vladimir Putin in ASCII generated by ChatGPT, via chatgpt.art.
Textmode works by Dwimmer, 2021-2022.
Textmode skulls by littlebitspace.
aiweirdness: I’ve finally found it: a use for chatGPT that I find genuinely entertaining. I enjoy its ASCII art.
I think chatGPT’s ASCII art is great. And so does chatGPT.
What’s going on here? The chatbots are flailing. Their ASCII art is terrible, and their ratings are based on the way ratings should sound, not based on any capacity to judge the art quality.
Am I entertained? Okay, yes, fine. But it also goes to show how internet-trained chatbots are using common patterns rather than reality. No wonder they’re lousy at playing search engine.
More examples, including from bing chat and google bard, at aiweirdness.com