Monday, 30 June 2025

"Durable, adorable and endlessly entertaining"

 

Google has an interesting program called Canvas which uses AI to generate images and now this can run to website design too, with complete coding supplied, all free. In a matter of minutes something that would have taken me ages is ready to launch. Indeed, I am not sure my coding skills are good enough anyway, no matter how long the ages. My own Corgi website has been pretty much unchanged for many years so I thought I should give Canvas a try.

All I wrote was this:
"make a landing page for my https://corgi.toys website"

For a moment, I felt I should add 'please' somewhere in the request. That's a sign of my age! But then I reminded myself self that I am communicating with a pile of code and, whilst the idea that behind all this AI stuff is a room full of very bright people clattering away at keyboards never quite gets completely erased from my mind and brings a welcome smile from time to time, good manners are really quite superfluous in this instance.

So here are a few pages of what the AI people came up with . . .





Yes, they think / it thinks that I am dealing with some nice toys for corgi dogs to play with!! 

It's so amusing and yet so good in its way that I just had to share it with you. Whilst being of no use whatsoever I have to say how impressed I am with the little touches like the logo and 'what parents say'. Compared to the dreadful and increasingly tiresome and repetitive AI-provided text that we are now having to read on most Ebay listings, this is really quite excellent.

I shall, of course, try again sometime and provide rather more specific guidance for Canvas AI to work with and, if the results are good, I may well make use of them and bring you more news about that in due course.

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