I keep hearing about this in the news (Natural Stupidity prefight)

[Lunkhead]

Natural Stupidity
Due: Sunday, 03/05/23 9:59am PST
optional challenge: Use your voice in place of some instruments
yourbandname_ns.mp3 sent to fightmaster@songfight.org
Subject: Natural Stupidity
Body: (just your band name)

Paging "Florida Man".

[Gemini6Ice]

Okay, I' got my submission in before the coverbot this week, so I'm hoping I have a shot! (Is coverbot just a person typing the title into a DALL-E type thing? Or is it actually a bot-bot?)

[Pigfarmer Jr]

Songfight Coverbot is literally a bot but someone has to manually submit an entry. You can look at the current autoart here: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/sfcb/

The SongFight AI Coverbot is a real live human using AI art creation (very well, I might add.)

Some of my entries have been AI art generated (and then modified) but not like a large percentage.

Also, you have GOT to have the record for the longest timespan between first and last used art entries. 21 years 5 months by my count. Crazy.

[Gemini6Ice]

Thanks for clarifying. Do we know who's behind the curtain for the ai coverbot? <detective emoji>

Fwiw, I did not try with power plants because I very much liked your submission and did not want to compete with it The AI art was good too, but I assumed it was not a human tinkering with prompts.

I'm checking dates now and... May 2008 until December 2022, so it looks like I took a 14-year hiatus? ABCD Puppies was my first one picked in 2004. Wow, I'm feeling old. You've been doing a lot of good work while I've been gone!

[Pigfarmer Jr]

Maybe the date is wrong, but there's an entry for Red Robot from 2001 that looks to be your art.
https://sfjukebox.org/fights/red_robot

[Lunkhead]

The new AI coverbot account is for posting stuff by anybody who wants to make AI generated art but is too lazy to sign up for an art account and submit the art themselves, aka JB. But if you want to participate in that, the place to do that is in the Slack #ai-songfight-covers channel.

[Gemini6Ice]

Maybe the date is wrong, but there's an entry for Red Robot from 2001 that looks to be your art.
https://sfjukebox.org/fights/red_robot

This surprised me, because I was still on slow af dialup back then! I did a little digging, and it looks I made this around 2004 as a retroactive art. You had me questioning my own memory though!

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1132&p=31556&hilit ... bot#p31556

[jeff robertson]

The title sounds like a hypothetical Weird Al Yankovic version of "Silent Lucidity" by Queensrÿche.

[j$]

I'm in with a little sloppy uke drone, as is my want.

j$