{"id":173062,"date":"2025-08-22T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173062"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:17:09","slug":"weekend-open-thread-562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173062","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giant-alien-worm-crowling-at-the-Virginia-Beach-VA-oceanfront-20250809-A.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-173063\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giant-alien-worm-crowling-at-the-Virginia-Beach-VA-oceanfront-20250809-A.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giant-alien-worm-crowling-at-the-Virginia-Beach-VA-oceanfront-20250809-A.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giant-alien-worm-crowling-at-the-Virginia-Beach-VA-oceanfront-20250809-A.jpg?resize=333%2C333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giant-alien-worm-crowling-at-the-Virginia-Beach-VA-oceanfront-20250809-A.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giant-alien-worm-crowling-at-the-Virginia-Beach-VA-oceanfront-20250809-A.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giant-alien-worm-crowling-at-the-Virginia-Beach-VA-oceanfront-20250809-A.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried to get Bing&#8217;s AI image generator to create an image of Drool Rockworm walking on the beach. This is a character from Stephen R. Donaldson&#8217;s &#8220;The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant&#8221; series. The options that came up were not close to that character&#8217;s description. One of the results is posted above. I tried to get Grok to create the same images using the same prompts. As with Bing, I also got something that would pass as 21st century science fiction. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to get Bing&#8217;s AI image generator to create an image of Drool Rockworm walking on the beach. This is a character from Stephen R. Donaldson&#8217;s &#8220;The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant&#8221; series. The options that came up were not close to that character&#8217;s description. One of the results is posted above. I tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-J1k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}