# 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:** 41
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/801 "2025-06-10T15:04:33Z")
My first try was simply “Count Chocula marrying Twilight Sparkle” (which I’ve tried on multiple AIs). The results were good, but cartoon style. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Cg7SBsb.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Cg7SBsb.jpeg) So I tried another prompt asking for realism, and decided to add an audience: “Hyper realistic image of Count Chocula marrying Twilight Sparkle taken with an iphone 15. The guests are cereal mascots and the rest of the maine six.” And the typo for the capybara was “mage” instead of “made”. ---
**Author:** ![rsThump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rsThump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsThump)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/802 "2025-06-10T16:20:10Z")
1920s style death ray… [![](https://i.imgur.com/yoRtolt.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/yoRtolt.png) Airplane on a treadmill… [![](https://i.imgur.com/5OHRjs7.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/5OHRjs7.png) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/803 "2025-06-10T16:29:17Z")
> [@rsThump](#): > > Airplane on a treadmill… It’s going to shake itself apart. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![rsThump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rsThump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsThump)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/804 "2025-06-10T16:32:36Z")
You mean that’s not a structural turnbuckle?!? Oh, dear… You should see some of the prop configs it created while trying this prompt… 😆 ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/805 "2025-06-10T16:34:12Z")
1920’s death ray/airplane on a treadmill… [![](https://i.gyazo.com/022317fe9d9e34ac7af5663dde0d79cc.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/022317fe9d9e34ac7af5663dde0d79cc.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:** [June 10, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/806 "2025-06-10T16:37:05Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/eT5X3g5.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/eT5X3g5.jpeg) ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/807 "2025-06-10T16:40:28Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > they put a new image generator up at Perchance, and it’s horrible, I feel like it stepped backwards over 3 years in capability of rendering basic human figures. Half of them have some major anatomical glitch, usually extra limbs, something I haven’t seen from other generators in a long time. But _is it_ a backwards step, or is it actually a major advancement in conceptual depiction of motion, similar to the way the cubists attempted to capture the 4th dimension in a still image? [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg/800px-Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg/800px-Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg) Nude Descending a Staircase –Marcel Duchamp ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/808 "2025-06-10T16:45:12Z")
> [@solost](#): > > conceptual depiction of motion, It does the same kind of thing in static poses. I picked that one out of a collection where I’d set the randomizer for different activities or poses for the subject (along with different ages, outfits, colors, and styles) that one happened to be running. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/809 "2025-06-10T16:48:50Z")
Well, I was joking anyway-- I didn’t think an AI was really going for an artistic depiction of motion without even being prompted to do so. It is odd though, that with such crazy good image generation available, that the new Perchance image generator would fail so badly. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/810 "2025-06-10T17:09:47Z")
2020’s style. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/0a22287d21d49e92647140db60ff00b8.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/0a22287d21d49e92647140db60ff00b8.png) ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/811 "2025-06-10T19:53:48Z")
Burger King’s new mascot was not a big hit with customers: [![](https://i.imgur.com/LmrXtsK.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/LmrXtsK.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:** [June 10, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/812 "2025-06-10T20:03:39Z")
But Burger Kong might be a good way to escape trademark infringement. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/813 "2025-06-10T21:15:26Z")
I had a print of that. I loved it. The motion is there. The steps are fine. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/814 "2025-06-10T21:30:41Z")
I love how many different interpretations we’re seeing of 1920s-style death rays. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/815 "2025-06-10T22:54:21Z")
> [@rsThump](#): > > Airplane on a treadmill… I was going to comment on this one, but then the other more fanciful airplanes on treadmills showed up. Heck, I’ll do it anyhow. You’ll notice the wheels of the airplane are not on the conveyor belt part of the treadmill. They’re on the fixed side rails. Assuming a long enough treadmill, and careful enough pilot steering, that airplane could take off normally. It seems the AI did not quite grok the essential point behind “airplane on the conveyor belt of a treadmill.” ---
**Author:** ![rsThump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rsThump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsThump)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/816 "2025-06-10T23:07:57Z")
You’re 100% correct. To be fair to the AI, I didn’t specify “on the conveyor belt”, just “small airplane on a treadmill”. Please, feel free to critique anything I post - I’m not trying to recreate reality with my images. I’m merely seeing how my local models compare to the commercial ones, and what other’s thoughts are on the quality. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/817 "2025-06-10T23:19:49Z")
My point was not to critique your prompt. But to point out that the AIs are still really weak on “common sense”. Such that your own mental effort to get them to do what you want is far more challenging than it might naively appear. In all those are fun images on a fanciful fun topic. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/818 "2025-06-11T01:38:07Z")
Some famous threads. [![](https://i.imgur.com/EDMjwcs.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/EDMjwcs.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/GfLiGN3.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/GfLiGN3.jpeg) Sora rejected 3 out of 4 of this one, but the one remaining shot was a winner. [![](https://i.imgur.com/3suqLyl.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/3suqLyl.jpeg) And _Mad_ magazine style [![](https://i.imgur.com/JCaMzl2.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/JCaMzl2.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/GR98f8w.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/GR98f8w.jpeg) (It kept all 4 in this style.) [![](https://i.imgur.com/KvytxoX.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/KvytxoX.jpeg) The threads: > [@I Am Going To Blow People Mind's At My Funeral](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-going-to-blow-people-minds-at-my-funeral/75280): > > I have always been a little different(to say the least huh). So I really don’t want to have a boring funeral like everybody else has. I mean it is depressing enough that somebody died then people go and wear black and have boring depressing music too. So unless I am really disfigured(from a bad wreck or something you know my “wild” driving record), I want the morgue dudes to put me in a cool looking suit and put a big like smile on my face. Then I want them too arrange my hand like a gun so whe… > [@The horror of blimps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps/152885): > > Last week while travelling I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It’s called Airship Earth, and it’s a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it, and two propellors hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium put batteries in it, and you have a radio controll indoor blimp. I’d seen these things for sale in Sharper Image catalogs for $60-$75. At Zany Brainy it was on clearance for $15. What a deal! Last night my wife was playing tenn… > [@You sneaky little Jehovah's Witness bastard!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-sneaky-little-jehovahs-witness-bastard/232042): > > The direcTV guy came by today to install our new DVR. A pretty simple install as I already installed the telephone line, and the amp/switch box is about 5 feet below where the extra line needs to run. So all the installer needs to do is give us the new DVR receiver, run one coax line, plug it all in and leave. BUT NOOOOOOOO! First, he shows up two hours late. I expected as much so I’ve already resided myself to working on some projects around the house. After arriving, he spends a fair amoun… ---
**Author:** ![rsThump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rsThump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsThump)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/819 "2025-06-11T02:48:04Z")
I understand and agree with your assessment of AIs’ “common sense”, I didn’t think you were criticizing my prompt. I was just trying to point out I’d given it the bare minimum to work with, so I wasn’t expecting much from it. This is the first one it generated from the minimal prompt, and…well…there is an airplane, and a treadmill, but… [![](https://i.imgur.com/Fdjg5Xy.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Fdjg5Xy.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:** [June 11, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/820 "2025-06-11T05:09:44Z")
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