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AI: Fun + Terrible

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 This week I have enjoyed telling CoPilot, an AI website, to draw some awesome pictures. Have you ever seen the batmobile jumping off of a canyon into a volcano? Now you have!     What about a jackalope that looks like the joker carrying a bazooka riding a flamingo Lamborghini? There you go.     I also have several different stages of a horse riding a motorcycle. This being the first:      The second stage of this drawing was this horse wearing an overcoat and a fedora riding a bulletbike.     And the final drawing was this horse in a Batman mask and a sombrero, still wearing the overcoat:           So I couldn't argue that AI isn't fun to mess around with, and I also want that last picture hanging in my room, but AI is also terrible.     Recently I was able to talk to the New York Times Bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of The False Prince among several other incredible books.   ...

Rule number 11: Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.

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Summer vacation was fantastic. My family got a foreign exchange student from Spain named Alejandro, who was awesome to have around.      My family  also went to New York and Washington DC with Alejandro and had a great time there.      Another thing that we were able to do is float down the Ashley River. Me, my brother, and two friends of ours got a standup paddleboard, and four tubes that were tied to the paddle board. Two of the tubes were pretty good. In fact, they were pretty nice for Walmart. One of the other tubes was a tiny toddler tube with a rainbow on it, and the final one was a giant yellow duck. While we were floating down the river we saw a six foot alligator. To see if the gator was following us we sent the rainbow tube back to see if the gator took it. (It didn't.)     Another highlight of the Summer was the platform. When Alejandro was here, our friends took us out on their boat where we found a rope swing and wooden platform....