ChatGPT uses advanced natural language processing (NLP) to understand and respond to user input. It can be used for a wide range of tasks, including answering questions, summarizing information, writing articles, generating code, and even composing creative pieces like poems or scripts.
How it works:
ChatGPT is trained on a massive dataset of text from the internet, allowing it to learn patterns and generate coherent and relevant responses. It essentially predicts the next word in a sequence, based on the previous words and the overall context.
This technology will soon make you unemployed and intensely miserable (I made that part up).
This might seem self-serving, but I promise that my brother texted me out of the blue saying he asked ChatGPT about my work. It was unsolicited (I swear), as I feel like simply asking A.I. about me is ultimately going to lead to it ripping me off, and to the aforementioned misery.
But when asked, it responded with the below:
Pumpkinrot’s style can best be described as handcrafted folk horror meets Halloween art installation. His work blends rustic, decayed materials—like sticks, burlap, and natural fibers—with hauntingly atmospheric lighting and design. The result is a deeply eerie, otherworldly aesthetic rooted in:
Folk horror: Inspired by rural superstitions, scarecrows, and pagan-like effigies.
Organic textures: Emphasizes weathered, rotting, and natural elements.
Silent storytelling: His props often feel like they’re part of an ancient ritual or lost myth, evoking narrative without words.
Muted, earthy palette: Dominated by browns, grays, and sickly yellows, with flickers of candlelight or eerie glows.
Minimal but powerful movement: Many of his pieces are static but posed in ways that suggest life or presence.
Overall, his work feels like unearthed relics from forgotten autumnal folklore—evocative, unsettling, and deeply immersive.
I was really creeped out at first. But then I figured that write up would look nice on a tombstone... I definitely appreciated that it formulated that description based on stuff it found online. But it still feels icky.
Then I envisioned a future where home haunters begin generating A.I. haunt photos of nonexistent Halloween displays. A future where it becomes impossible to determine what's real and what's not. As someone who receives messages on Instagram asking me if my photos are A.I., I dread a future where no one can tell the difference. And I'm thinking that future isn't all that far away.
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The wrong kind of scary! Like a lot of things these days. I'm afraid we're already there :(
Doing something like this never occurred to me, and while I feel like the output was pretty darned accurate (scarily so, even), it did leave me feeling a little strange reading it.
I'm not even sure why, though?
I mean, it's all true and it was derived / compiled from human generated comments across the interwebs, so it's unclear to me why it seems so unnerving, but it really did.
Being pragmatic, I suppose that in the not-too-distant future, asking questions like this, and seeing similar output, will be commonplace and probably even second nature.
Eventually, it will cease to be even remotely surprising, and will become the current equivalent of a simple Google search. Moving rapidly from "I never thought to ask it that" to becoming the go-to resource (the exact trajectory of the search engine)
I'm trying not to be too reactionary about this entire AI evolution, and while I DEFINITELY have reservations and am not necessarily leaning into it, I have tinkered with it a bit and can also see some real-world practical value (and have even derived some)
Seeing this post, I decided to ask Gemini to tell me about my display and got a very weird (and very unexpected) feeling in my stomach when I read what it spit out. What it was able to come up with definitely felt creepy, and somehow intrusive? (not really even sure why...after all, I do choose to post pictures and stuff)
It was somewhat akin to what I always expected it would feel like playing Bloody Mary as a kid if something actually showed up...
The Bloody Mary reference is exactly how it felt. And I hate that something like this wasn't met with happiness and excitement, and a feeling of being flattered. It just feels like a very bad augury.
I already see AI generated "displays" on Facebook, Pinterest, etc. People claim to have made the props, people asking how to make them, and so on.
I don't know how to stop it, but it is pervasive.
Weird and creepy but it captured your aesthetic pretty well except for the sickly yellow.
Great point!
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