My techie news feed spat out a reference to an AI text-to-image generator, so I figured I’d try it out.
The caption is the prompt producing the image, with the style in parentheses …
Much wheel! Such hinge! Crazy piston! Also, where do the red cowcatcher and amber headlight come from in a “black and white engraving”?
Well, it is an “engine”.
Now, that is a manly engine, but with red widgets.
black and white engraving full page detailed (anime)
It has the appearance of an old catalog page, until you look closely.
OK, let’s try for some wildlife …
So. Many. Legs.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Chickadees seem like relentlessly cheerful little birds, but that oddly spherical critter is definitely having a hard time.
Oops.
That must be a mil-spec phoebe, because it definitely doesn’t resemble any phoebe I’ve ever seen.
Bottom line: Although the pictures are much better drawn than I can do, the (in)accuracy of the content prevents it from solving any problems I have.
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The chickadee sketch is interesting. The single leg on the bird and the fact that its right wing seems to be a branch makes for something that Rod Sterling would approve of…
I asked for “parents and children waiting in line at a preschool building”. A first glance looked plausible, but the details were straight-up nightmare fuel. Maybe paid AI works better, but it’d have to be a lot better to reach “acceptable”.
Chickadee PC/104 SBC by Bagotronix Inc. .;-)
Many are surely ticking along out there, doing whatever they’ve been doing for the last two decades. Gotta love those embedded systems …
More realistic drawings of birdies…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wilhelm_von_Wright
I’m not asking for Audubon-grade artwork, just the proper number of legs. :grin:
Photoshop has something they call “generative fill” that can supposedly do (slightly) better, by being able to use it to insert something into an image and to iterate on an image.
I strongly suspect it’s also of the fun for 10 minutes variety but I’m not inclined to pay the fee just to find that out.
The trick must be to iterate on an image while tweaking the prompt to fix glitches, but “prompt engineer” seems like a job description made up to disguise a bullshit job.
Their promotional video looks potentially kinda cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6K3qpVFO0
Makes one wonder how many images it requires to generate one sensible image.
I wwas having similar fun in this thread:
https://www.promasterforum.com/threads/messing-around-with-bard-ai-making-promaster-pictures.104516/#post-850043
I just read a story by H.G.Wells about a guy who found he could work miracles — by willing something he could make it real. Turned out the human will was a real stickler for the literal meaning of words and he had to change his will for a “fish in a bowl” into a “bowl of water with a goldfish swimming in it” to get what he’d intended.
Likewise, you asked for a chickadee on a twig and got this rustic skewer. Like if you wanted a picture of a corn-dog on a stick.
(Why the dark grey text-entry box?)
I’m reasonably sure that’s higher-octane nightmare fuel.
Because I let WordPress do whatever it wants, because making it do what I want is basically impossible. Whenever they force me to update the theme, everything changes. :mutter:
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