Crumb 1574: An Apology to Richard Dawson by AlfredoLlaquet on DeviantArt
Crumb 1574: An Apology to Richard Dawson: Crumb 205 portrayed Richard Dawson in a very bad light because he used to kiss female contestants of Family Feud on the mouth. After becoming a fan of the 1970s TV show Match Game, I’ve realized that I was terribly unjust. I have now seen many episodes of Match Game on YouTube, something that I recommend to everyone, and it turns out that in the 1970s kisses on the mouth between people not romantically involved were permissible. Incidentally, Dawson participated in Match Game as a celebrity panelist and he’s fantastic.Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.Design and image by ChatGPT.MY PRODUCTION PROCESSI write my crumbs (very short stories or reflections) when I feel like it using nex/nvi on FreeBSD 15 running KDE Plasma 6.5 on Wayland.I have 12 prompt templates that instruct ChatGPT to convert one of my crumbs into an image using a certain style.Each template basically says to ChatGPT: create an image in this particular style that reflects what the crumb says. Add the text of the crumb on the image, plus "Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina presents".It's important to note that ChatGPT decides by itself what specific image to generate every time. I just provide the crumb and the style. It provides the rest. It's its "creativity" that decides how the image will be.To speed up the process, I use a custom FreeBSD script that gets the crumb from stdio (this means I paste it on the terminal), and consecutively pairs it with each of the prompt templates and copies each result into the clipboard, one at a time, waiting for a key press in between.I paste each final prompt into ChatGPT.ChatGPT creates the image.If the image doesn't look distorted and the text is correctly rendered, it gets approved.If the image is okay and I like it, but the rendered text has a few errors, I may decide to fix the text manually by copy-pasting individual letters, which is tedious but worth it if it means saving a nice image.That's it.Note: If you notice a typo in this image or any other, please leave a comment. Usually, I can fix them.
