Foodcourtification

A cross-sectional image of a Foodcourt building in the style of Ligne Claire. The building consists of restaurants on five stories with each floor a central section contains the kitchen areas. A sign over the image says Foodcourtifation (ie a mis-spelled word).

One or many?

A very colorful foodcourt made in the early era of AI-imagemakers (Dalle-E 2). The tables on the foodcourt is half-full with people. The image is drawn in comic style.
Let’s grab a bite in this half-full foodcourt inside the mall!

I registered the domain name foodcourtification.com during a period when the great external malls with their foodcourts still thrived.

Now, many years later, there is a somewhat eerie and abandoned atmosphere around the name foodcourt that lacked ten or twenty years ago.

The foodcourt was an invention to gather most of the restaurants within the mall into one shared space. Sometimes, according to legend, the restaurants differed in style and cuisine, but could share a common kitchen. Thus, the Foodcourt can be regarded as a symbiosis between one and many.

A chef stands behind his desk in the foodcourt kitchen with his hands in the air showing confusion or skepticism. The neon sign behind him should say "Foodcourtification" according to the prompt, but the letters are only vaguely resembling the prompted word.
What can I do about it, that the AI image-maker Dalle-E 2 can’t spell the word Foodcourtification?

A short story about the history of Foodcourtification since April 2023

April-May 2023

I wrote the posts mostly on my own and made small changes with the help of Chat GPT 4. Most of the images on this blog during this time were prompted with Microsoft Image Maker and Dalle-E 2.

After some posts, I felt that I had more urgent things to do and abandoned the blog.

December 2024-

I’ve been following the news about AI largely on YouTube and felt there are a lot of interesting news that I watch and forget. What about creating something like a Second brain or a knowledge system like Notion or Obsidian?

I played a while with the concept of Zettelkasten, but it felt to granular–I just wanted to document cool stuff from various YouTube channels. In December 2024 I decided to bring Foodcourtification.com back from its hibernation.

I used various flavours of Chat GPT and Dalle-E until January 2025. Then I decided to use Google’s Gemini 2.

I try to post a note/ blogpost every day and have largely returned to Dall-E for image creations, as Google Imagen 3 does not create images in the format 16 x 9, and is very reluctant to create anything with human beings.

Writers and creators of the blog: Kristian “The Chef” Nilsson and a variety of AI-engines.