# AI image generation is getting crazy good **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [April 19, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203 "2025-04-19T03:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 102
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2021 "2026-08-09T10:37:48Z")
Totally fake looking. His mouth is not open and he’s not angry. 😉 On a more serious note, that is pretty impressive rendering. Well done! And I bet that if idjit trump ever saw those, he might well decide he wants Conway Twitty hair for real. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2022 "2026-08-09T14:38:56Z")
Some fun with Gemini video. Today’s Snuffy Smith, a direct conversion. [![](https://i.ibb.co/chvd8700/i260809bgss.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/chvd8700/i260809bgss.jpg) > Make a live-action video based on these storyboard drawings. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OfAlWLwzhsg/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfAlWLwzhsg) A frame from today’s _Mary Worth_, a direct conversion. [![](https://i.ibb.co/5XkjWVV9/i260809maryworth.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/5XkjWVV9/i260809maryworth.jpg) > Make a live-action video based on this drawing. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2rnjvN1VPhs/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnjvN1VPhs) Bit of a glitch there. I tried again with two steps. > Convert this to a realistic photo with no text [![](https://i.ibb.co/Z1mgQf4C/Gemini-Generated-Image-sq2581sq2581sq25.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/Z1mgQf4C/Gemini-Generated-Image-sq2581sq2581sq25.jpg) Fed the photo into a new chat: > Make a video. They angrly smush ice cream on each other’s faces. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ACc_NHWiQkY/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACc_NHWiQkY) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2023 "2026-08-09T17:13:47Z")
More playing with comics as storyboards. It grasps the concepts of some better than others. Some have the order mangled. Others delete some of the dialogue. But still pretty impressive results with such little input. My favorite [![](https://i.ibb.co/sJyv6MHL/birdcall.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/sJyv6MHL/birdcall.jpg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FnZbiApFbKM/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnZbiApFbKM) Others [![](https://i.ibb.co/WNtyVpYm/hoboken.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/WNtyVpYm/hoboken.jpg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/njRQd819aME/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njRQd819aME) [![](https://i.ibb.co/HTQTZjB9/sheets.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/HTQTZjB9/sheets.jpg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y6phRlzn4NY/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6phRlzn4NY) [![](https://i.ibb.co/PvmMR1RZ/respect-beliefs.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/PvmMR1RZ/respect-beliefs.jpg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NN3ADOteCtI/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3ADOteCtI) [![](https://i.ibb.co/2XSXW9s/toxic.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/2XSXW9s/toxic.jpg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yfxkJPKZq40/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfxkJPKZq40) [![](https://i.ibb.co/93hFTrF9/alsovampire.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/93hFTrF9/alsovampire.jpg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zQ7PKNcAiNY/maxresdefault.jpg "August 9, 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ7PKNcAiNY) (Out of the 10 free videos per week, I’ve made 13 since last night.) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2024 "2026-08-09T18:56:54Z")
Reminds me of this “tribute strip” for Pearls Before Swine, that I composed via cut and paste: [![](https://i.postimg.cc/JhSzfMMZ/Tribute-strip.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/JhSzfMMZ/Tribute-strip.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2025 "2026-08-13T20:40:55Z")
So perhaps a bit disturbing. On the Kling web site sample page I’ve started seeing variations of output from prompts like “Jenna Ortega smiling and crank-starting an off-camera olde timey car” or “…trying to empty the last bit of ketchup from a container just below the camera frame.” I think you probably get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2026 "2026-08-15T23:30:51Z")
Ha, this actually worked. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/d49fd8772a40ac6e55b00e5457e7dac8.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/d49fd8772a40ac6e55b00e5457e7dac8.png) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2027 "2026-08-16T16:43:35Z")
That’s really cool. Kudos to Randall Munroe for allowing this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2028 "2026-08-16T16:46:29Z")
That’s the first time I’ve managed to convince it to allow an image after it had blocked the attempt due to invalid copyright concerns. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2029 "2026-08-17T16:10:42Z")
For the last few images I’ve done, Gemini has been downloading as jpg instead of png and (more importantly) hasn’t included the 4-pointed star watermark in the lower right. > Create a realistic portrait-orientation photo of a possum unzipping itself exposing two stacked weasels inside. [![](https://i.ibb.co/gFbpRkKg/Gemini-Generated-Image-4i79e14i79e14i79.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/gFbpRkKg/Gemini-Generated-Image-4i79e14i79e14i79.jpg) Copilot is still using their highly intrusive new watermark. [![](https://i.ibb.co/7tnZ2Qzy/Copilot-20260817-120810.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/7tnZ2Qzy/Copilot-20260817-120810.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2030 "2026-08-17T16:14:17Z")
Highly-obtrusive but also extremely easily removed. Just make sure your picture has a little more background on the top than you need, and then crop it out using absolutely any other image editing program. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2031 "2026-08-17T16:16:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Just make sure your picture has a little more background on the top than you need You take what they give you, you may get more than you need, you might not. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2032 "2026-08-17T16:41:32Z")
Can you add “include clear, empty sky at the top of the image” in the prompt? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2033 "2026-08-17T18:43:14Z")
Google actually has a really sophisticated watermarking system called SynthID that embeds the watermark in a way that’s practically invisible to the humans looking at it but is easily detected by programs even if the photo is edited, cropped, or rescaled. It embeds the watermark somehow at the pixel level in a way that’s algorithmically readable. That’s a really valuable tool in a world where AI image generation is good enough to present as real, and I think they make it available for other people to use the tech if they want. I’m not sure how I feel about blatant “made with AI” watermarks like copilot apparently does now. I appreciate the disclosure, but it’s so distracting and ugly that it ruins the aesthetics. I think a relatively subtle one that you can see if you look for it but doesn’t jump out at you is probably the best compromise. Google’s little semi-transparent star was a good version of this. I don’t know why they stopped using it. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2034 "2026-08-17T19:00:29Z")
Haha, does Comics Curmudgeon know about this yet? So many Mary Worth storylines call out for improvements of this sort. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2035 "2026-08-17T20:33:28Z")
Yes, right now Google’s Synth ID is used both by Google (in Gemini) and Open AI, although you can’t universally check for a Synth ID. A Gemini Synth ID can only be detected directly using Gemini (just upload or paste the photo and ask if there’s a synth ID present.) Open AI has its own synth ID detector, but it’s not through ChatGPT, it’s its own web page. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2036 "2026-08-19T11:54:18Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9sYGZ-5ubBc/maxresdefault.jpg "DAVID TENNANT RETURNS | Doctor Who 2026 Christmas Special Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sYGZ-5ubBc) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2037 "2026-08-19T18:14:43Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cU4FY_WKggs/maxresdefault.jpg "Picard Finds Out Star Trek: The Next Generation Is a TV Show") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU4FY_WKggs) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2038 "2026-08-24T01:46:13Z")
Wanted to see if Gemini could figure out what was going on in this comic (I asked for a realistic photo, didn’t explain anything.) It did pretty well, but thought the cat was going to slingshot a computer mouse. [![](https://i.ibb.co/WZ4bPgj/FB-IMG-1787515520235.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/WZ4bPgj/FB-IMG-1787515520235.jpg) [![](https://i.ibb.co/MDgbKCcf/Gemini-Generated-Image-815x65815x65815x.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/MDgbKCcf/Gemini-Generated-Image-815x65815x65815x.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2039 "2026-08-24T01:56:49Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > For the last few images I’ve done, Gemini has been downloading as jpg instead of png and (more importantly) hasn’t included the 4-pointed star watermark in the lower right. Google Flow uses Nano Banana (Normal/Pro/Lite options) and has never included the visible watermark in all the time I’ve used it ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/2040 "2026-09-09T01:55:31Z")
lets see how AI writes poetry. ai please write a clerihew about Indiana Jones Indiana Jones Was careless with ancient bones. He’d escape with a boulder on his tail, But let snakes make him turn quite pale ====================================== ai please write a clerihew about Han Solo Han Solo Was a pilot, not a robo. He shot first at Greedo, With a rogue’s bravedo. ====================================== ai please write a clerihew about Doctor Who The eccentric Doctor Who Travels through time and space with a crew. He defeats Daleks and Cybermen with a grin, Then regenerates into a brand new skin. ====================================== ai please write a clerihew about Star Trek Captain James T. Kirk Was rarely known to shirk. He’d boldly go into space, And romance almost any alien race. ====================================== ai please write a clerihew about Frank Drebin Lieutenant Frank Drebin of Police Squad! Was feared by crooks, though he was rather odd. He’d trash a crime scene and cause a giant explosion, Leaving the city in a state of utter erosion. ====================================== ai please write a clerihew about The Saint Simon Templar, known as The Saint, Had a reputation without a taint. He’d leave a stick-figure doodle behind, Just to mess with Inspector Teal’s mind. ====================================== ai please write a sonnet about shakespeare He wrote his lines upon the shifting stage, And captured every sorrow, joy, and breath; He bound the human soul inside a page, And triumphed over silence, time, and death. The globe and crown of all our modern speech, He traced the paths of kings and fools alike; His mighty thoughts and metaphors out-reach The fleeting marks that mortal pens can strike. Though centuries have turned and empires fall, His golden verse still rings in every ear; A master voice that echoes through us all, Whose timeless art can conquer doubt and fear. So long as men can read or hearts can glow, His deathless name and genius will grow. ====================================== ai please write a limerick about SDMB There once was a board, SDMB, Where fighting all ignorance was key. They’d argue all night, To get the facts right, And solve every deep mystery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=101) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=103)