Question: If you're a fan but you have no time to do fannish things, what do you do?
Answer: Let AI do it for you.
OpenAI's new language model for text generation has been creating some buzz during the past week, and tonight I've been playing around with the online demo. I gave it some first lines I made up (they're pretty bad) to see if it would generate something that could pass for Buffy fanfic. Here are the results :-)
Attempt 1
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Attempt 3 (it's Anthony Stewart Head's 65th birthday today -- technically, yesterday -- so I had to try a Giles story as well)
Try it for yourself, it's fun!
Wallpaper made for

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I'm so glad to be part of several wonderful BtVS communities here on LJ and elsewhere. As you can see from the list above, without those and the lovely people in them to inspire and encourage me to do fan art I'm not sure I would have gotten much done this year.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
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This is not Spike, but Simon from Chance (screencap taken by me). I don't remember where I got the snowflakes from. And yeah, I know Christmas is already over for this year, but that's no reason he couldn't still be dreaming about it, right?

Banner/icon meme challenge by buffylover at BuffyForums. The challenge was (among other things) to create Buffyverse art based on "My best mood". For the mood I chose gleeful, inspired by James Marsters' quote (from a DVD extra, I think): If I only had one word to describe Spike, it would be glee... in all the wrong things.
So I made icons of gleeful Spike moments, and a banner:
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Oops, I forgot something with my catching up posts: four icons and a banner I made for a
So I made icons of gleeful Spike moments, and a banner:
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I contributed this vid to the Fall round of

Note: in case you're wondering about that last line, it's "Do you remember what happened to Lot's wife?" (A biblical reference -- she was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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BuffyForums. It's Saturday Night Fever Spike and Nile Rodgers Spike!
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Both of these were inspired by debbicles from ( Musical Spikes behind the cut!Collapse )
- Current Music:James Brown - Funky Christmas
Warning, comics spoilers ahead!