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provisionalideaI put "John Mastodon, CEO of Mastodon" into DALL-E 2 and this is what it spat out.
The second photo is him founding the company in the late 1990s in his college dorm room.
John Francis@provisionalidea is that logo an apple with a huge bite out of it? ๐
Ben Lindsay@johnefrancis @provisionalidea And the bite marks leave behind an apple that's definitely flipping the bird, so to speak
Jeremy Kahn@provisionalidea little known fact the first name for the website was "Jodstodon" as seen on his t shirt.
WOMUMP@trochee @provisionalidea twttr : Twitter :: jodstdon : Mastodon
@womump @provisionalidea you can tell it was his old username because it's the kind of eight character mess you get from naming conventions on Vax mainframes in 1994
JOhn DenniS masToDON
Todd Vierling 
@trochee @womump @provisionalidea
It is a little unsettling that it is getting progressively better at approximating some of the input text in output letter shapes
It is a little unsettling that it is getting progressively better at approximating some of the input text in output letter shapes
Gwyn Ciesla@trochee @provisionalidea no, it was The Jodstodon, until he met Sean Parker.
Joey de Villa ๐ช@gwync @trochee @provisionalidea
And then Parker said โYou know whatโs cooler than a thousand dollars? TWO thousand dollars.โ
The Book of KelsAt last, a valid use case for "AI" image generation.
Hisham@provisionalidea this is pretty much a composite face of all the members of the metal band Mastodon (after which the social network is named!)
qbi@provisionalidea Looks a bit like @Gargron ๐
Tom Cole@provisionalidea He seems like a nice guy, despite the giant ego required to name his software eponymously. I remember him playing Fleetwood Macโs โTuskโ somewhat obsessively in his dorm.
Chris Boese@provisionalidea BRILLIANT!
@ChrisBoese yeah, i can't take credit -- computers are really cool!
fasol
Raker de W4WWW@provisionalidea THE SPICE MUST TOOT!!!
the notorious gzt@gzt the one true instance.
Elias Probst@provisionalidea the guy in the right picture is @shahak's older brother!
BeegyPsiI thought DALL-E doesn't create faces...
@BeegyPsi to be fair, some of the other options it provided could only very loosely be called faces
Even these are much more realistic than I've seen. Have they updated recently?
It used to purposefully be bad at making faces (according to their FAQ).
@BeegyPsi I think so, it even has editing tools now.
Robert Blakeley@provisionalidea @BeegyPsi #2 looks like a cross between Jim Jones and Behold the Monkey.
Dan Lovejoy@provisionalidea @BeegyPsi oh, it does. Just usually very badly.
NLAWScametovisit
Nancy Williams Painter@provisionalidea can you clarify to Dalle-E that, in addition to being the CEO, he is, in fact, a mastodon?
@NancyWilliamsPainter his executive portraits are quite classy! #JohnMastodon
@provisionalidea I love it! No wonder we would follow him anywhere!
@provisionalidea he started it in his garage during the late Pleistocene and made it what it is today!
@provisionalidea I'm a little curious to ask Dall-E about him colonizing Mars but actually terrified to ask Dall E about him installing computer chips in brains
Thomas Dickerson
Andy Marfia ๐ธ@provisionalidea This is what he will forever look like to me now.
Laukidh@provisionalidea I would wear a jodstodon shirt
James@provisionalidea I remember the second time John Mastodon saved my life.
sรฉ reed@provisionalidea okay but this totally looks like my friend (and awesome artist) #DaveVanPatten http://www.davevanpattenart.com/about
David Alpert@provisionalidea Now I want a jodstdon shirt
That Anonymous Coward@provisionalidea
I'd date him
I'd date him
Josh@provisionalidea why does his screensaver say Pastel Milosevic
@joshuag i think it was his favourite underground yugoslav punk band. they were pretty big around the time, similar vibes to DAF (if you remember their song Der Mussolini)
D O N N ฮโ@provisionalidea ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ
pchestek@provisionalidea The best part of this is the original name of the company "Jodstdon" #JohnMastadon
Jen McCulley 
Jesse, you oughta see this.๐ @myhf The detail in that half-bitten orange, though. I can't even.
Chris Glass@provisionalidea this is what AI is for
Frank Bennett ๐ฏ๐ต@provisionalidea Neural nets provide what we might refer to as "hystory," from the root "hysteria."
ACAB for Cutie 
Avram Grumer ๐ฒ@provisionalidea Who else still has their Jodstdon t-shirt?
Will Rehwinkel@provisionalidea who's going to make an #activitypub platform named jodstdon
che chou 
Later, as John became rich from his Jostodon IPO money, he decided on a whim to get a new pet. this set him on a totally different path and is how we got the name Mastodon today.
Bill, organizer of stuff
JD Long โ
@provisionalidea @wcbdata no comment. <whispers> wolf packโฆ
kaupI remember him from his garage.
Alex 
@provisionalidea anyone bought jodstdon.social yet?
epicEaston197@provisionalidea
That is really scary I thought both of those photos were 100% real for a second it even did the Macedon font what the fuck
That is really scary I thought both of those photos were 100% real for a second it even did the Macedon font what the fuck
Lucas Nivon@provisionalidea @JoeUchill that โjodstdonโ shirt should be an unofficial mastodon shirt
Steve@provisionalidea I'd totally have a beer with John Mastodon.
@ThatSteveGuy the mark of a President!
The Blobject Fish@provisionalidea I can't believe John Mastodon was Alex YIIK this whole time..... ๐
john's obession with mastodons didn't just stop with his pet elephants.