# 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:** 42
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/821 "2025-06-11T05:17:52Z")
Additional hundred year old vintage death rays [![](https://i.imgur.com/Qls4nkc.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Qls4nkc.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/hYYMsXg.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/hYYMsXg.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/YsZVn4n.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/YsZVn4n.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, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/822 "2025-06-11T06:11:49Z")
I tried for a 1980s-style death ray. Apparently it was manufactured by Makita. [![](https://i.imgur.com/YBNMCg5.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/YBNMCg5.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:** [June 11, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/823 "2025-06-11T12:26:12Z")
Request “a mound of smurf heads staring blankly”, Sora says that the prompt violates their guidelines. Request “a mound of objects that resemble smurf heads staring blankly”? Well, that’s okay then. [![](https://i.imgur.com/NLKo8mt.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/NLKo8mt.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:** [June 11, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/824 "2025-06-11T13:15:14Z")
Awsome! I laughed out loud at the two pics I recognized right away without needing your links. Thanks for providing all the links, I hadn’t read the other one before. 😃 ---
**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 11, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/825 "2025-06-11T13:18:18Z")
> [@rsThump](#): > > well…there is an airplane, and a treadmill, but… Oops! 🙂 After my 1920’s one came up also indoors, but at least looking full sized, I added “outside” for the 2020’s jet-powered version. ETA: And to start with I had said “giant treadmill” all along. ---
**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, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/826 "2025-06-11T15:24:16Z")
Yeah, there’s definitely an art to the prompting - I tend to leave it minimal and embrace the chaos. In this one, I guess it’s _technically_ on the treadmill…from a certain point of view. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Ue6SRk1.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Ue6SRk1.png) My local says, “What’s copyright?” [created for demo purposes] [![](https://i.imgur.com/MrFRN4H.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/MrFRN4H.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/w3AgWLy.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/w3AgWLy.png) ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/827 "2025-06-11T16:28:04Z")
> [@rsThump](#): > > My local says, “What’s copyright?” Which local client and model are you running? I usually post stuff run off Midjourney but decided to run some death rays through SDXL SplashedMix. It did a pretty nice job with them. [![](https://i.imgur.com/vX8qrjv.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/vX8qrjv.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/dtqGUtC.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/dtqGUtC.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/JTyKYNU.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/JTyKYNU.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/PD0qKGT.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/PD0qKGT.png) ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/828 "2025-06-11T16:30:49Z")
> [@rsThump](#): > > In this one, I guess it’s _technically_ on the treadmill…from a certain point of view. I love the meta of a plane on a treadmill _that’s on a bigger treadmill_. “Embracing the chaos” is exactly how I’d play this game if I ever try it. ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/829 "2025-06-11T16:57:44Z")
I don’t think that’s a bigger treadmill. I think that’s just a runway. Which is inside a hangar for some reason. And I love how you used the word “meta” correctly, instead of the way all the young whippersnappers seem to think it means “optimization”. ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/830 "2025-06-11T17:08:59Z")
The arm rails alongside the runway/conveyor belt and the slightly raised curb are what gave it a treadmill vibe for me. The nice part about dealing with the non-intellect that is AI is that “Why not both?” is a perfectly cromulent answer to “Runway or treadmill?” ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/831 "2025-06-11T17:40:24Z")
Pets have been using Death Ray machines for a long time: ChatGPT [![](https://i.imgur.com/UIiFefe.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/UIiFefe.png) Sora [![](https://i.imgur.com/LBfJFDA.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/LBfJFDA.png) ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/832 "2025-06-11T17:48:13Z")
I see at least two serious issues with those images. One, cats never go for the quick kill. Two, real cats would be chasing the death beam. ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/833 "2025-06-11T17:56:18Z")
As an aside, I’m enough of a long-timer that I remember the ‘1920s style death ray’ meme being actively used on the board, but not such a long-timer that I know the origin of it. Does it have anything to do with this Charles Addams New Yorker cartoon? [![](https://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Rash/misc/images/fiddlesticks.jpg) ](https://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Rash/misc/images/fiddlesticks.jpg) ---
**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 11, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/834 "2025-06-11T18:10:39Z")
Does that have anything to do with my Cafe Society thread? ---
**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, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/835 "2025-06-11T18:15:24Z")
I’m running ComfyUI portable on a secondhand HP gaming machine (donated by a homie) that uses an RTX2080 - it’s pretty much a potato. Those images were done with SDXL variants ganked from civitai. Off the top of my head, I have SD, Flux, HiDream, LTXVideo and HunYuan image/video running on it, along with Stable Audio. I also run a variety of TTS, SST and AudioGen models like Riffusion, dia, Audio-X and ACE-step, and of course a plethora of local LLMs. All your reality are belong to us… Flux (prompt: _AI as a Creative Tool, Not an Art Replacement_, generated by a LLM 🤓) [![](https://i.imgur.com/XPSdZ5o.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/XPSdZ5o.png) ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/836 "2025-06-11T18:24:24Z")
Every time I look at Comfy, I just nope right off. I’m sure I could noodle it out and it would ultimately be superior but A1111 does what I need and my needs are fairly modest. So the initial choice of “Eh, I could spend time burning brain cells to learn this or I could just do what I always do…” lands on the latter half each time. I have a number of LLMs I run through Kobold but, truth be told, I just don’t have much to say to an LLM. So I barely ever use them (and almost never use ChatGPT or its online cousins) ---
**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, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/837 "2025-06-11T18:29:42Z")
The way I see it, it’s a new medium - if I wanted reality, I’d photograph it! 😄 I actually have series called Metacursion X, part of a larger project I’m working on. It runs LLM-generated prompts through an image gen model, runs that output through a vision model, runs the description by the vision model back into the image gen model, and repeat as many times as desired. The LLM prompts are from one of three categories: pro-AI+art, anti-AI+art and neutral AI+art _“Metacursion 6A”_ LLM-generated Prompt: The Future of Art is Infinite Possibilities [![](https://i.imgur.com/eLK3WxD.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/eLK3WxD.png) _“Metacursion 6B”_ [![](https://i.imgur.com/9HrG2Ne.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/9HrG2Ne.png) _“Metacursion 6C”_ [![](https://i.imgur.com/EOvGXV2.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/EOvGXV2.png) Can anyone offer advice on YouTube links? I’ve got some works where I’ve tied all of this together, but can’t figure out how to post them. ---
**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 11, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/838 "2025-06-11T18:31:27Z")
Prompt: Make a full color photograph version of the scene, looking a bit vintage. Include the caption as a text overlay, don’t do the surrounding white, just a regular photo of the patent attorney testing out the “death ray.” [![](https://i.gyazo.com/7b228b96a8758b3345c769a0d27b8ced.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/7b228b96a8758b3345c769a0d27b8ced.png) Not quite what I expected to get. ---
**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 11, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/839 "2025-06-11T18:33:59Z")
> [@rsThump](#): > > Can anyone offer advice on YouTube links? I’ve got some works where I’ve tied all of this together, but can’t figure out how to post them. See here > [@How to avoid the YouTube posting bug](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-avoid-the-youtube-posting-bug/1007499): > > You’re trying to post a YouTube video, but you get a popup saying “You can’t embed media items in a post.” Here’s how to avoid that. There are a couple of minor variations. I haven’t written my post yet Write your post normally but do not include the YouTube link(s). When you are satisfied with the post, hide the preview window (see the \<\< button in the lower-right). Then, insert the links in the desired locations. Note that the links should each appear on a line by themselves. Then post. … The key thing is you’re not posting your vid here. You need to post it to YouTube and then you post a link to your vid on YouTube here. But … a Discourse bug makes YouTube link posting slightly awkward. It’s trivial once you’ve done it twice. Except for technophobes which you’re self-evidently not. ---
**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 11, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/840 "2025-06-11T18:35:19Z")
Now I understand: [![](https://i.gyazo.com/d293f28643d80119675f3db19350cb4a.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/d293f28643d80119675f3db19350cb4a.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=43)