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The AI Solution to Facebook Scams: Closer Than We Think?

27th November 2023 by driveby

Imagine you’re a business owner using Facebook to connect with your customers. One day, you’re startled by a message threatening to disable your Facebook page due to alleged policy violations, pressuring you to click a link to fix the issue. The link goes to a page that also looks like Facebook and you’re prompted to … Read more

What is the future for platforms like WordPress?

29th March 2023 by driveby

Open source software has long been a driving force in the development of the digital world, offering a wealth of opportunities for innovation, collaboration, and accessibility. WordPress, one of the most prominent examples of such software, has been the cornerstone of countless websites and continues to evolve and grow.

Website Creators – Human, DIY or AI?

1st March 2023 by driveby

Creating a website has become a necessity for businesses of all sizes in today’s digital age. But the question remains, who is best suited for the job? Is it a human website designer, DIY website builder, or the latest AI solution? In this article, we will compare the pros and cons of each option.

AI in Website Design – A Few Lincolnshire Examples

11th November 2022 by driveby

It’s been a while since I first acquired access to OpenAI’s DALL·E 2, so I thought I should come back and report on how this tool has been helping Drive By Websites clients.

Outpainting Website Images

By far, the most useful feature for me is outpainting. This is where new image is ‘painted’ by the AI to fill spaces outside of the initial image or blank spaces inside the image. With a feature like this we can extend images that would otherwise be very difficult to use as well as remove and replace spaces of the image that we feel are inappropriate. The first times I was able to use this successfully came only a day after the feature was introduced. This was no surprise though, due to how commonly I encounter this particular opportunity. Many clients will take portrait photos of their work using their phones, which is great for social media but not ideal for a website. Banner spaces are typically covering the width of a website, but they don’t have much height. So if we will the available space with the portrait image, we lose much of the top of bottom of the image. Let’s look at an example…

Design Experiments with DALL·E Artificial Intelligence

1st August 2022 by driveby

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My invite to DALL·E has arrived!

DALL·E is an AI system developed by OpenAI that can create original, realistic images and art from a short text description. DALL·E was trained by learning the relationship between images and the text used to describe them.

Design is where many people felt AI would struggle to compete with human creativity. However the reference material for the AI is the manmade connection between words and images.

Here's a few examples of the prompts and AI generated images from my first experiments with the software...