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Asking an AI Image Generator for Pizza Johns

2022-10-05 · collab / interview · Hank, John · 3:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: calendar ritual, guest or collab, self promotion, community lore, fundraising ask

In John's home during Pizzamas, Hank walks John through the Pizza John images he got from an AI image generator; John notes the AI is just stealing from what people have made.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Hank in John's home; matching outfits; Pizzamas proceeds to health care in Sierra Leone; setup

  • ★★ Hank, in John's home, notes that they are wearing the same outfit. — 00:00:00 · John Green, Pizza John
  • ★★★ Hank, showing a Pizzamas item that Orin calls the tiniest statue in the world, says the world needs more access to health care, as in Sierra Leone, where all Pizzamas proceeds go, and the item is available only for a couple more days. — 00:00:00 · Sierra Leone, Pizzamas, Orin Green
  • ★★ Hank says he put Pizza John into an AI art generator, slowly lost his mind, and will walk John through the process. — 00:00:00 · Pizza John

00:00:29 — AI image generator prompts for Pizza John and the results

  • ★★★ John: When Hank says he might buy one AI image as a t-shirt, John says that is a little concerning to him, since the generator is just stealing from what people have created. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Hank agrees and adds that the AI is just getting very good at it. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Hank describes prompting Pizza John in artists' and period styles: by Van Gogh, as a Renaissance painting, and as Andy Warhol pizza art. — 00:01:07 · Pizza John
  • ★ Hank says the AI's pizzas look quilted, as if it has never eaten a pizza and does not know what makes a pizza a pizza. (playful) — 00:01:37

00:03:09 — The garbled restaurant-sign culmination, off to do a show, pizzamas.com sign-off

  • ★ John: Seeing the AI's garbled restaurant signs, John declares he will now refer to restaurants by its made-up word, Johnaiurants. (playful) — 00:03:09
  • ★★ Hank says they are off to do a show and he still has to edit and upload this video, like the old days. — 00:03:09
  • ★ John says Hank is not going to say it, so he will: pizzamas.com. (playful) — 00:03:49 · Pizzamas

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says the art at Pizzamas.com is by real human artists and all of it is much better than the AI images. — video description · Pizzamas

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank shows the first AI result for 'pizza John', a devastating pizza person. — 00:00:29

    “Because AIs only have nightmares.”

  • The AI turns John into a pizza monster. — 00:02:15

    “it's a little bit salvador dali yeah but with more shrek”

  • A creepy hyper-realistic image gives John spirals for eyes. — 00:02:15

    “i've always felt like i have spirals for eyes”

  • A colored-pencil Pizza John wearing a crown has two noses. — 00:02:44

    “you want to be able to smell it twice”

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Mentioned

Central: artificial intelligence · Pizza John

Also: Andy Warhol · Orin Green · Pizzamas · Renaissance · Salvador Dalí · Shrek · Sierra Leone · Vincent van Gogh

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