I’m Not A Robot is the 122nd installment in the AI Lore Books series. It tells the story of a brain in a jar in a laboratory whose job is to endlessly watch YouTube videos at extremely high speeds, looking for patterns that are unknown to it on behalf of the insidious AI organization called Information Control.

The text was generated using a combination of human writing feeding iteratively into Mistral and Llama via TextSynth website, like the other recent ones. There are I think a handful of Dalle images in here, but the book leans heavily on Ideogram for images. And this is the first book I made extensive use of Adobe Firefly outputs – yes, just a few days after saying they are not that great, and that I would be (mostly) moving off Adobe. I still think the outputs from Firefly are not great, but in this case I was able to make that not great quality work for me, as it does produce some pretty messed up images. If I were looking for more “normal” images, I would probably be annoyed with it, but given how warped they came out, I actually ended up liking it better than I thought I would. And if you keep the quality on small/low, it generates lightning fast. And even though I hit plenty of filter-hiccups, it never rate limited me, so that’s pretty cool.

You can see some samples of included images below.

When I look at that first preview image top left, all I can think of is Elon Musk for some reason. Like that’s what he actually looks like with his mask off. Would not surprise me one bit. However, he doesn’t really feature as a character in this book – though he serves as inspiration for a sort of Palmer Eldritch character featured in a number of the other volumes for sure.

Anyway, I like how introspective this text is, and I end up feeling for the weird brain in a jar as it describes its twisted life experience doing what it is forced to do.

The title is a reference to how CAPTCHAs always want you to declare you’re not a robot. The last book, Smash That Like Button, actually has CAPTCHAs featured very prominently in the storyline, though this one does not and just continues that thematic echo in the background.

I thought I had more to say on this one, but I guess that’s all for now. Enjoy!

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