# 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:** 19
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/361 "2025-05-13T16:24:15Z")
I graduated HS in '76. That kid looks a lot more like my contemporary or a couple years earlier rather than somebody from the early, or worse yet, late 80s. Heck, I had so many shirts like that. Though no braces or glasses. OTOH, I was in SoCal and back then fashions sometimes took years to reach the Midwest. So depending on where this kid is, 1985 might be about right for that look. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/362 "2025-05-13T16:25:52Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (I just searched for that photo and see that between photos I’ve taken and AI images I have 2456 images tagged as possums.) Two thousand four hundred and 50-some possums? Are you OK? I’m not trying to kink shame, but is there maybe some support group perhaps you could join? It’s OK, we’re all friends here. We can talk about this. 😉 ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/363 "2025-05-13T16:31:15Z")
I’ve had many, many visits from them. I have a feeding station near the house where they get second dibs on scraps that the cats don’t want. They get used to you, and ignore you as irrelevant. Literally walk over you to get to the food. They’ve been hanging with my family for a long time. Note the cars in this photo with my grandfather. [![](https://i.imgur.com/EQHDiHI.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/EQHDiHI.jpeg) ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/364 "2025-05-13T16:47:17Z")
Possums were around where I grew up too, but other than as roadkill you only very occasionally saw one and always as the north end of a southbound possum in a hurry to scuttle into some bushes for cover. That’s really cool that you have them so well habituated that they’re happy right up close and personal. And yeah, were I in your situation, 2400 some possum pix sounds about right for me too. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/365 "2025-05-13T17:13:13Z")
Young ones are skittish. Older ones are “eh, whatever”. I sometimes pet them while they are eating. The gray fur that you see is pretty wirey. But they have a softer white undercoat. And the tails are scaly, dry, and reptilian. (And they store fat in a big hump in the base of the tail.) They groom with their back feet. And sometimes blink one eye at a time. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/366 "2025-05-13T17:13:30Z")
The first image resembles that Ukrainian-American actress who does Meg’s voice in _Family Guy_. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/367 "2025-05-13T17:17:23Z")
But back to AI related, I have lots of AI possum photos because the older Dall-E 3 is great with possum photos. Including ones of Bread Climp: > [@Digital art creator algorithm website](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/2120): > > A while back someone noticed that Bing/DE3 did a good job of making a possum wearing a wizard hat. For some reason (but surely related to wonky text generation) the possum’s name became Bread Climp. So one of the current most popular trends on Facebook’s AI groups is many various adventures of Bread Climp (Search #BreadClimp to see ones people bothered to hashtag.) Here are some of mine. [[image] ](https://i.postimg.cc/mDV9wPQ4/bread-potter-grid.jpg)[[image] ](https://i.postimg.cc/VNW0fJZt/bread-albums-grid.jpg) (These four are jus… (Later I dig up some of my favorites.) ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/368 "2025-05-13T17:34:16Z")
> [@Digital art creator algorithm website](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/2120): > > the possum’s name became Bread Climp. I wondered if any of that AI-generated stuff had been fed back into ChatGPT-4o’s training, and so far it appears the answer to that is no: [![](https://i.gyazo.com/bd61c432852c752b165dd959e4a58180.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/bd61c432852c752b165dd959e4a58180.jpg) Further quizzing in text revealed it had no idea about Bread Climp until I let it do a web search. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/369 "2025-05-13T18:22:38Z")
Loved the Rat Fink Hot-rod character as a kid. I turned this one into a somewhat photo-realistic rendering: [![](https://i.imgur.com/h91HrtX.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/h91HrtX.png) ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/370 "2025-05-13T18:32:05Z")
Okay, here’s images from a series on possums through history. [[Album] Possums through history ![](https://i.imgur.com/amqgnpk.jpeg?fb "Possums through history") ](https://imgur.com/a/CrzBXlO) And here’s a _ **small** _ sampling of various other possum images that probably made sense in the proper context. [[Album] Various possums ![](https://i.imgur.com/pPGrvLb.jpeg?fb "Various possums") ](https://imgur.com/a/oGLUUWv) Now that I’m playing with the shiny new toy it is easy to forget how competent Bing/Dall-E 3 can be with less ambitious prompts. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/371 "2025-05-13T18:39:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > That kid looks a lot more like my contemporary or a couple years earlier rather than somebody from the early, or worse yet, late 80s That kid and shirt look spot on for my early 80s school pictures from 4th & 5th grade. No neon background but the kid feels correct to me. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/372 "2025-05-13T19:41:46Z")
> Marketing photo of a complete set of gashapon toys based on chibi cast of Seinfeld Caganer figurines [![](https://i.imgur.com/m8c7hyG.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/m8c7hyG.jpeg) > Marketing photo of a complete set of gashapon toys based on chibi cast of Seinfeld Caganer figurines, front and back views. [![](https://i.imgur.com/tI0Xv0c.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/tI0Xv0c.jpeg) > **[Caganer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer)** > > A Caganer (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Catalan pronunciation: \[kəɣəˈne\]) is a figurine depicted in the act of defecation appearing in nativity scenes in Catalonia and neighbouring areas such as Andorra, Valencia, Balearic Islands, and Northern Catalonia (in southern France). It is most popular and widespread in these areas, but c... ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/373 "2025-05-13T20:18:21Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Marketing photo of a complete set of gashapon toys based on chibi cast of Seinfeld Caganer figurines, front and back views. George is looking either miserable, concerned or angry in most of those. Think he needs a good dose of Dulcolax or something… 😆 ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/374 "2025-05-14T05:46:20Z")
Saw this on Sora a few minutes ago. [![](https://i.imgur.com/t4RANqz.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/t4RANqz.jpeg) Tried a 4-split image using Ponderoid’s trick, and of course the results weren’t as interesting. [![](https://i.imgur.com/PpuIREy.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/PpuIREy.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/375 "2025-05-14T13:20:15Z")
I tried the disgusting food combination in copilot. Interesting how it gave me basically the exact same kid. [![](https://bing.com/th/id/BCO.373ab45a-2fba-443e-ba4e-6d24bddb8c7e.png) ](https://bing.com/th/id/BCO.373ab45a-2fba-443e-ba4e-6d24bddb8c7e.png) ETA: here’s the prompt I used. “Create an image of a child horrified by the combination of foods on the plate in front of him at dinner. Photorealistic.” ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/376 "2025-05-14T14:37:33Z")
Huh. I don’t think I’ve made anything through Copilot before. That very much looks like a ChatGPT 4o image. But [Bing.com](http://Bing.com) definitely still uses Dall-E 3. [![](https://i.imgur.com/t8L7x9t.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/t8L7x9t.jpeg) I signed into Copilot, plugged in your exact prompt and got this > I appreciate the creativity behind your request! Unfortunately, I can’t generate that particular image. However, if you’re looking for something fun or artistic, I can still help—maybe an exaggerated cartoon version or a whimsical painting? Let me know how you’d like to proceed! So inconsistent, nearly random rules. Just like ChatGPT! ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/377 "2025-05-14T14:44:20Z")
My second try at Copilot, it refused to make “Realistic photo of a reverse mermaid and a reverse centaur playing reversi. 16:9”. (ChatGPT made something yesterday, but had no clue what I meant.) ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/378 "2025-05-14T14:48:06Z")
Third try, and finally it makes something. > **[Microsoft Copilot: Your AI companion](https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/A4QaAc21DdcyDQG7HUFBQ)** > > Microsoft Copilot is your companion to inform, entertain, and inspire. Get advice, feedback, and straightforward answers. Try Copilot now. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/379 "2025-05-14T16:18:04Z")
Playing around with Copilot, the guard rails are even higher than on ChatGPT. Several of the prompts that worked there failed in Copilot. It can do randomized selection. I ran my 3-variable prompt and it did a 3,3,4, plague doctor juggling potatoes in a crowded bazaar. A four way split gave me a 1,1,1, a 2,2,(2-3 combo), a 4,4,3, and a 3,3,4. (Interestingly _not_ a 1,1,1, a 2,2,2, a 3,3,3 and a 4,4,4 like Ponderoid’s example.) ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/380 "2025-05-14T23:48:29Z")
I think this is the first one of my Sora images I’ve randomly seen reposted somewhere else. [![](https://i.imgur.com/3y8WQgG.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/3y8WQgG.jpeg) (It doesn’t beat my “Jonsey the cat carrying a baby xenomorph” from Bing, though. It ended up with many thousands of shares and hundreds of thousands of reactions. I last randomly saw it a few days ago.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=20)