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This was a little AI project to create a handful of hero images for our deprecated TV Sound Frequencies<\/a> pages. Frankly I have mixed views about AI Images. Not least that despite my giving Stable Diffusion very specific instructions, it still managed to make lots of silly mistakes. And the actual televisions don’t bear too much close inspection either. On the other hand, it was a fun project and I am moderately pleased with the outcome, despite its shortcomings…<\/strong><\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderMost countries around the world have switched off their analogue television services. So continuing to publish the sound frequencies seems a tad pointless. On the other hand I felt we should keep them here mostly for historical reasons. So I wanted to give the pages a feeling of something that is old and abandoned. An objective that I think, these images actually achieve, moderately well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was a little AI project to create a handful of hero images for our deprecated TV Sound Frequencies pages. Frankly I have mixed views about AI Images. Not least that despite my giving Stable Diffusion very specific instructions, it still managed to make lots of silly mistakes. 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