AI Illustrates the Story

 This week in 'AI Illustrates the Story', we read chapter 1 of 'The Corona Virus Saga'.  Illustrations are by CLIP Guided Diffusion.

You can learn a lot about an AI by how it illustrates a story.

The Corona Virus Saga - chapter 1

In 2017 an entity from interstellar space named Oumuamua entered our solar system. A visitor from some other part of the galaxy, other part of the universe, a probe sent into our running simulation, who knows.

The mysterious visitor quickly passed through the solar system and then sped away. Sped being the thing to really focus on, because it sped up as it was leaving.

Interesting. That's what space ships do.

No, no, astronomers said. It's just acting like a comet, and some reaction on the surface is spitting out particles, hence generating and powering it's acceleration.

Interesting. That's what space ships do.

Anyway, people quickly lost interest in perhaps the major scientific discovery of the century, moving on to more important topics such as 'crooked hillary' and 'lock her up' and 'let's be mean to trans-sexuals' and 'is kanye jesus'.

But we had been visited by some entity from somewhere else.