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Janelle Shane

@janellecshane@wandering.shop
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I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Jul 23, 2026
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
I was on @marketplace.org yesterday talking about the ways chatbots do memory, and how that can sometimes lead to weird results, like The Case of That One Random Detail it Will Not Let Go https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/07/22/uncanny-ai-why-ai-bots-remember-random-sometimes-useless-information
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Apr 01, 2026
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

New AI Weirdness post! In which a large language model attempts to give April Fools prank ideas, except with one of its neurons tweaked to make it obsessed with the Eiffel Tower.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/get-working-on-your-april-fools-eiffel-tower/

Get working on your April Fools Eiffel Tower
AI Weirdness

Get working on your April Fools Eiffel Tower

Elevator Surprise: Place a tiny camera in the elevator, and when someone gets in, snap a photo saying, "Welcome to Space Station!" Or build a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower next to it for a drama

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Dec 19, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Replying to @fivetonsflax@tilde.zone
@fivetonsflax@tilde.zone thanks! I was worried it only made sense in my own head
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Dec 19, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Boosted by Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff https://www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatbot-runs-your-store/
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Nov 27, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Boosted by Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!

https://www.janelleshane.com/book-you-look-like-a-thing

If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:

  • peeled rosemary
  • Chaosrug
  • King of the Poop Bug
  • Silly Walks
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Oct 08, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Replying to @nantucketlit@mastodon.social
@nantucketlit@mastodon.social Just saw this! You can use the prompts however you like, and do as many of them as you like! I think the most common thing is to aim for one piece of art per day.
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Oct 01, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Replying to @distractal@hachyderm.io
@distractal@hachyderm.io Text generators in all Microsoft products but it’s char-rnn trained on vintage jello recipes and every time you ask it to complete your sentence it’s all “Pour into thickened, 3 1/2 pounds cooked and chopped pickles; cook of cold in saucepan.”
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Sep 30, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

Presenting #Botober2025, a series of the worst art prompts that literally only one person in the world asked for.

The art prompts are AI generated but not even by a GOOD AI, by a tiny bargain basement neural network code from 2015. It runs not on a giant datacenter but on a single laptop covered in cat hair. And it hasn’t seen the entire internet, just one set of user-submitted vintage jello recipes. The original dataset was terrible. The tiny neural net’s version is worse. Enjoy?

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Aug 20, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

The terminal B Tattered Cover at Denver Airport has six signed copies of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You!

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Apr 12, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Replying to @janellecshane@wandering.shop
no problems ever with mimmic software packige Can trust yes
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Apr 12, 2025
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Dec 30, 2022
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Replying to @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop
@sarahpinsker@wandering.shop although you can fudge that one by actually wearing pants and merely screaming that you are not
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Dec 30, 2022
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop
Replying to @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop
@sarahpinsker@wandering.shop Absolutely! Although I would caution against doing every single resolution at once as you would be quite busy (and wearing too many hats)
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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Dec 30, 2022
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

Undecided on a New Years resolution? Try one of these AI-generated suggestions!
https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-years-resolutions-generated-by-ai/

New Years Resolutions generated by AI
AI Weirdness

New Years Resolutions generated by AI

This month I'm beginning 2022 as the first Futurist in Residence at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building. It's weird to think of myself as a futurist. I write a lot about the algorithms we'r

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · May 16, 2019
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

What would AI demand if it suddenly attained sentience? To find out, I trained a neural net on 190k petition titles from Change.org https://aiweirdness.com/post/184919085542/this-neural-net-would-like-to-deliver-these

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Nov 19, 2017
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

NO, neural network, NO

Taco Custard Pie
Pin Truffle Pie
Pie With Caramel Turd

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Nov 17, 2017
Janelle Shane
@janellecshane@wandering.shop

I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com | Also a research scientist in optics. She/her

wandering.shop

I trained a neural network to generate Disney songs, but only gave it a 5-character memory. It tried its best.

http://aiweirdness.com/post/167596678562/disney-songs-sung-by-a-neural-network-with-a-very https://wandering.shop/media/d_UU8SztasevfguiQz4 https://wandering.shop/media/S6rhJVbUU011jcIZMFU

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