# 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:** 25
**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 19, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/481 "2025-05-19T05:53:02Z")
Not completely realistic, but I’d place it on a similar level to Tarkin in _Rogue One_, gained at a tiny fraction of the effort. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/482 "2025-05-19T05:59:47Z")
Actually used your instructions in another thread. √ I thought the way **Akira** handled the various levels of UV well executed. I’ll go have a look at **Rogue 1.** I’m uncertain as to whether I WANT it seamless ⁉ ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/483 "2025-05-19T21:01:07Z")
I think it was a mistake to show the figures as talking, while the voiceover was running. It made it seem like it was supposed to be the figure themself talking, but the lip movements didn’t match the words, which was disconcerting. If you can’t make an image talk in synch (I don’t know if they can or not), then don’t show the image talking at all, and just stick to things where lack of matching audio wouldn’t be so jarring. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Not completely realistic, but I’d place it on a similar level to Tarkin in _Rogue One_, gained at a tiny fraction of the effort. I found Tarkin in Rogue 1 to be fine. The real Peter Cushing, however, falls squarely into the Uncanny Valley. ---
**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 20, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/484 "2025-05-20T03:02:23Z")
After some failed and underwhelming ideas today, something more pleasing. A Yeti photo becomes an attacking Yeti photo becomes an attacking Gary Busey photo becomes a Yeti and Gary Busey Sculpy and cottonballs diorama. [![](https://i.imgur.com/MPFvtC5.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/MPFvtC5.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/DhBrK7I.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/DhBrK7I.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/ePlP0hY.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ePlP0hY.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/0w9GPJB.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/0w9GPJB.jpeg) ---
**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 20, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/485 "2025-05-20T03:40:10Z")
Added some randomizer to the diorama prompt. > **Summary** > > Make a cardboard box diorama. The figures are made of sculpey, but well made and detailed. The diorama is sitting on a kitchen table. 9:16 tilt-shift iphone 12 photo. > > Randomize all of the following: subject - activity - location - [![](https://i.imgur.com/05xYUq6.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/05xYUq6.jpeg) ---
**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 20, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/486 "2025-05-20T03:48:03Z")
I thought ChatGPT was now over with putting the screen on the wrong side of devices, but no. What the little girl was looking at on the tablet screen was there in the context, so of course ChatGPT had to try to draw it. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/26f16cace1c7bee7e62737fbf4888fdb.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/26f16cace1c7bee7e62737fbf4888fdb.png) Oh and just like that model General Lee I posted upthread, she clearly doesn’t have a proper grip on the thing she’s holding. ---
**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 20, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/487 "2025-05-20T04:00:47Z")
I had that problem when I was going for Dora the Sora explora images. But it _is_ a difficult thing trying to show the character’s face and the screen contents at the same time. ---
**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 20, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/488 "2025-05-20T05:17:39Z")
I tweaked the diorama randomizer. Added “Make it incredibly stupid. Like, you lose IQ points just looking at it.” [![](https://i.imgur.com/OsvthNd.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/OsvthNd.jpeg) Among other things we’ve got a guy with a dumbbell jumping into a child’s pool while a cow holding a carrot watches, some sort of toilet snake (or _not_ snake), and a naked guy licking a wooden pole. ---
**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 20, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/489 "2025-05-20T05:31:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > “Make it incredibly stupid. Like, you lose IQ points just looking at it.” [![](https://i.gyazo.com/c0ce265cdeb5a4aec44fbba33743d29f.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/c0ce265cdeb5a4aec44fbba33743d29f.jpg) ---
**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 20, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/490 "2025-05-20T06:36:09Z")
Saw a prompt involving a meercat “on a desert mound”, and it reminded me of experimenting in Dall-E 3 doing a prompt involving the word “desert” and the same prompt with the word “dessert”. DE3 always assumed that I misspelled the sandy place and put the action there, never in a sweet confectionary. I decided to test Copilot. Ran the original prompt (desert mound). Opened a new chat, ran the same prompt with the one extra letter. And still got the desert mound. Like DE3, it assumed I made a typo. So I tell it "That’s a desert. It needs to be a dessert, with two “s"es.” and it retried, giving the correct interpretation. [![](https://i.imgur.com/wm80z4m.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/wm80z4m.jpeg) The prompt: > **Summary** > > “Hands-on-Hips Meerkat Boss” > Subject: A meerkat standing upright, confidently placing paws on hips, dramatically posed atop a desert mound. > > Style: Dramatic, empowering business-leadership photography. > > Palette: Sandy beige, bright sky blues, golden browns. > > Absurdity: Mockery of the forced confidence and seriousness of human “boss poses.” ---
**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 20, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/491 "2025-05-20T11:02:35Z")
The best place to find meteorites is in deserts, both because the dry conditions preserve them best and the sparse groundcover makes them easier to locate. So (based on the above concept) I had to make a dessert meteorite. It took a few trys to get what I wanted, but I’m pleased with the result. [![](https://i.imgur.com/F7nuab8.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/F7nuab8.jpeg) ---
**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 20, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/492 "2025-05-20T11:19:19Z")
AI is also handy for new product design: [![](https://i.imgur.com/Ym6MR5G.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Ym6MR5G.jpeg) Not sure why this product didn’t catch on yet. 🤔🤷‍♂️ ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/493 "2025-05-20T12:58:02Z")
That’s really funny! ---
**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 20, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/494 "2025-05-20T18:52:11Z")
I wasn’t sure how Copilot would handle a request asking for a combination of traits from three different photos. It turns out it had no difficulty understanding what I asked for. [![](https://i.imgur.com/F2hNxQj.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/F2hNxQj.jpeg) It changed the design on the multipass screen, but I don’t care about that enough to try to revise it. (Or insist on the cylinder thingies.) It still has to make lots of annoying editorial comments about everything, though. And notice that it started Making Shit Up, claiming that the Imperial officer uniform was a uniform from _The Fifth Element_. ---
**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 20, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/495 "2025-05-20T19:47:21Z")
I don’t use copilot, but whenever I upload an image to chatgpt, I almost always tell it “just hold that, don’t process it yet” at the same time. Because at least in the chatGPT interface, you can’t go back and redo whatever prompt you sent along with the picture, but you can redo later prompts that reference it for different takes on what’s in there. I want to keep the context clean in case it totally misinterprets the image on the first go. ---
**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 20, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/496 "2025-05-20T19:50:50Z")
I’ve been using Copilot lately for one reason: no limit (that I’ve hit) on free renders. I save ChatGPT/Sora renders for things that Copilot refuses with its high “guardrails”. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/497 "2025-05-20T21:58:38Z")
I’m not sure I like the placing on that second image… Just where did that “frosting” come from? ---
**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 21, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/498 "2025-05-21T07:52:30Z")
The musicians of Bremen and the musicians of Isla Nublar. [![](https://i.imgur.com/dAv6pvp.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/dAv6pvp.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/H1eUOZH.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/H1eUOZH.jpeg) ---
**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 21, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/499 "2025-05-21T11:19:50Z")
I had just asked a Monty Python question earlier in this rather silly conversation with ChatGPT, so seeing your image naturally inspired me to ask this: [![](https://i.gyazo.com/f3b44d09fb2112962cfa5a80e6238a71.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/f3b44d09fb2112962cfa5a80e6238a71.jpg) ---
**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 21, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/500 "2025-05-21T13:10:38Z")
Newly discovered style, “surrealist style of Guido Crepax”. Here are two text-only prompts (American Gothic and The Birth of Venus) and conversions of two of my recent images. [![](https://i.imgur.com/0CwpfOz.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/0CwpfOz.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/GbyHEVy.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/GbyHEVy.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/XosrOTg.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/XosrOTg.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/XBUIzgQ.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/XBUIzgQ.jpeg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=26)