Jack Galler
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Jack Galler is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 20, 2024 and February 27, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “This lovely AI image (generated by Jack Galler)”; “This image (AI, generated by Jack Galler) was the best-loved in the competition”; “This one was generated by another ACX reader, Jack Galler”. It most often appears alongside Sam Altman, /r/ImaginaryWarhammer, /r/NootropicsDepot.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 20, 2024
- Last seen: February 27, 2025
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- Sam Altman (2 shared issues)
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- ImaginaryWarhammer (1 shared issues)
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- NootropicsDepot (1 shared issues)
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- 19th Century (1 shared issues)
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- @fae_dreams (1 shared issues)
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- @ObhishekSaha (1 shared issues)
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- @xlr8harder (1 shared issues)
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- ABC testing (1 shared issues)
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- Modern (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Aella (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
This lovely AI image (generated by Jack Galler) almost made it into the test, but I noticed at the last second that the kid had no thumb. Or is the thumb hidden? I’m not sure, but I didn’t want to make it too easy. I also tried to pick human works with a minimum of "tells" that would reveal their humanity without requiring any subtle artistic discrimination. So I stayed away from text (non-garbled text would be a strong sign that a picture was human), complicated wrestling-like poses (AIs mostly can't do these and end up with limbs emerging from nowhere) and pop art (something about the clean lines and replicated images is a bad match for AI's abilities). Again, this makes the test unrepresentative of a world where some art does have these "tells".
This image (AI, generated by Jack Galler) was the best-loved in the competition. Could this be an artifact of poorly chosen pictures? Most of the best-loved AI images were Impressionist; by chance, this category was somewhat AI-dominated in my dataset, so this could just reflect a love of Impressionist paintings (or a particular aptitude for AI in this area). But the human Impressionist painting I included (Entrance To The Village Of Osny, above) was actually quite unpopular. And if we remove all Impressionist paintings, then although humans reclaim the top two spots, an AI is still #3, and the machines still take 40% of the new top ten.
AI. This one was generated by another ACX reader, Jack Galler.
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4: Jack Galler, who generated many of the images I used in the AI Art Turing Test, has a blog post on his experience: The Turing Test For Art: How I Helped AI Fool The Rationalists.