"Seed of Wrath" logo in the style of Wrath of Khan. Composite of the starburst Wrath of Khan logo with "Seed of Wrath" replacing the movie title. What happened after Space Seed and before Wrath of Khan? After Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan hit theaters, I thought about writing some fanfic about what happened …
The Star Trek in-universe fanzine "From the Files of Star Fleet[sic] Command" was published in 1980 and appears intended to explain some changes made in Star Trek: The Motion Picture from the original series. It doesn't name the author but dies identify "Star Fleet[sic] Historical Archives" as the publisher. But first, some comments about "Star …
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These are some of my favorite fan publications from the early days of Star Trek because they're signed! I call Bjo Trimble the OG Star Trek uber-fan. She's probably best known for the coordinating the mail in campaign to save Star Trek after it wasn't renewed for a third season and for editing the Star …
One of my favorite Star Trek fanzines is Starship Design: Interstellar Forum for Naval Power. Written by Todd Guenther, it was first published by Devon-Aurora Publications Center in 1984. I think my copy is a reprint from 1987. I don't have any information on Devon-Aurora but that isn't surprising. A lot of fanzine creators also …
Starting this week I am going to have a lot more free time on my hands. That means I can finally get around to all the projects I've been putting off. That includes the Ansonisms blog. I'll begin with sharing items from my Star Trek collection. Coming up: Starship Design from 1984.
I asked the new ChatGPT 4o to explain Ansonism. It just summarized my earlier posts. So then I had it generate a new image of the Ansonism HQ, Ansonism Academy, and even the founder of Ansonism.
Continuing my experiment with ChatGPT creating a religion. Any religion worth its salt needs a logo and a headquarters. So I asked the generative AI to make some. The first HQ has a cool Atlantis vibe. And what legitimate religion doesn't have a creed? Here you will see the shiny new Ansonite Creed (ChatGPT called it the Ansonist Creed but I don't care for that name).
In Part 2 of my experiment with ChatGPT creating a religion, we see the detailed history of the belief as well as a recruiting advertisement.
Can generative AI create a religion? This is the question I sought to answer in the exchange with ChatGPT. I course I named it Ansonism (everyone should have a religion named after them). Admittedly my first prompt was too ambitious, it still took a little time to get results. This post is the beginning of the transcript up to where ChatGPT generated a description of Ansonism.
I asked ChatGPT 4 to generate images of apocalyptic wastelands. After adding atomic bombs, UFOs, and aliens I decided to ask ChatGPT to regenerate images in the styles of various artists. Sometimes it resisted. The results were rather interesting. What follows is the transcript with images.
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