Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the ...

But when music label Avex tried to commercialize Nomaneko products, 2channelers fought back with everything from legalistic nitpicking to death threats, solidifying Mona’s status as the collective ...

Developer Victor Widell has created an automated script that searches through the web and automatically detects ASCII art hidden within its pages. Developer Victor Widell has created an automated ...

While AI chatbots are, in general, trained to not provide responses that could cause harm to the user or others, researchers have discovered that many chat-based large language models including GPT-4 ...

We admit it, we have a nostalgic soft spot for ASCII Art. Pictures made form characters, printed on an old-fashioned line printer. They’ve been a hacker standby since the 1960’s. Times have moved on ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Checked the source code of our front page lately? We didn't think to until we got a tip. Dante's Inferno ASCII art is buried with in it - along with ...

In context: Most, if not all, large language models censor responses when users ask for things considered dangerous, unethical, or illegal. Good luck getting Bing to tell you how to cook your ...

If you think your SMS messages are a little drab and dreary, you could consider spicing them up a little with some Ascii artwork created using the new iPhone application AsciiArt, available for the ...