escarpment

NOT a newsflash: the Sun rose yesterday

::chuckle::

The real newsflash: yesterday, OpenAI broadly released the model called "Sol" — ChatGPT 5.6 — to the broader, unwitting, public and to normies like me... finally.

It had been buzzed about in certain precincts lately (the buzzers being privileged with the limited release a couple weeks ago), and of course I'd been curious about it, like most any self-aware prompter and 'cognition conjurer' {::snicker::} these days.

I asked it just now this:

Prompt: please provide me with an image for the post. Make it about the release of Sol, but... not literal. Make it symbolic and surreal/abstract. Use your design chops AND imagination. This is, also obvi, a test. GO. ;p

Result, after a 2nd attempt {WHOA}:

[ in progress... ]