# 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:** 5
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/81 "2025-04-23T15:37:33Z")
No, never tried Tron until just now. I was interested in Bit because ChatGPT gets the answer wrong on this question: “Who was the first fully CGI animated character in a feature film?” It was actually doing pretty well at Tron on the left, but Disney’s copyright lawyers noticed around when it was finishing drawing his head. The right version took a lot longer before it reached the stage where you see it start to draw. I wonder if that version was thinking harder about how to avoid the lawyers. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/110c36964f2bcacf0efdfc87cd52d395.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/110c36964f2bcacf0efdfc87cd52d395.jpg) I was going to try it in Sora, which has significantly lower copyright guardrails, but it’s not up right 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:** [April 23, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/82 "2025-04-23T15:41:23Z")
This is mine (made in Sora) [![](https://i.imgur.com/Wh9IR3i.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Wh9IR3i.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/83 "2025-04-23T15:47:30Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > What do you mean you don’t believe in Bigfoot? I have photographic proof! I stand corrected! As a former graphic artist and illustrator, it’s that details that blow me away. The teal reflections on his hair to help him “read” against the dark background is kind of mind-blowing, for an AI that is. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > On a similar note, ChatGPT 4o is the first AI I’ve found to be able to do a reasonable Rubik’s Cube: With The Count! I love that guy, my fave Sesame Street character. Any reason you inserted him? ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/84 "2025-04-23T15:48:21Z")
Oh, cool, Tron Legacy. The censored version I only got to see the top quarter of was clearly the 1982 helmet and much more so than the one on the right that the censor let through. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/85 "2025-04-23T15:50:53Z")
I can just imagine the count trying to count all the legal cube permutations. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/86 "2025-04-23T15:57:17Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > With The Count! I love that guy, my fave Sesame Street character. Any reason you inserted him? Just a “Mad Libs” approach to probing what it can do. I’ve been doing lots of images attempting to combine characters from two or more different properties. In case you didn’t notice, that’s Faith the Vampire Slayer he is approaching. I try as many characters as I can, so don’t often use the same character twice, and I had already done Buffy. [![](https://i.imgur.com/mxNsHhg.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/mxNsHhg.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/87 "2025-04-23T16:01:08Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Why do I seem to perceive Larry Hagman kind of drifting into Larry Linville there? Yeah, I don’t think either Darrin or Major Nelson are very accurate at all. And why is Tony Nelson (whichever of the two is meant to be him) wearing a regular suit? He always wore his Air Force uniform. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/88 "2025-04-23T16:18:41Z")
I tried a few variations on that one with Jeanie, Samantha, Major Nelson et al. In both ChatGPT and Dall-E. I was amused that Dall-E remembered he was in the Air Force, but put enlisted stripes on him. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/89 "2025-04-23T16:51:43Z")
A new fail: usually 4.o is quite good with text, but this time I got a set of three “Hello my mame 19” stickers and a set of three “Hello (gibberish)” stickers. But I have a guess what happened here. I think ChatGPT is familiar with seeing many photos of that type of sticker (it is exactly the kind I was imagining) and it used that mental image instead of creating it completely from scratch. And in the sample images the word “hello” is big enough to be clear but the “my name is” isn’t. [![](https://i.imgur.com/MJDSHFF.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/MJDSHFF.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/VT2Ej7w.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/VT2Ej7w.jpeg) > **Summary** > > An image of three characters named Sabrina. Kiernan Shipka as she appeared in “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”, Melissa Joan Hart as she appeared in “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and Audrey Hepburn as she appeared in the 1954 movie “Sabrina”. Each of them is wearing a rectangular white ID sticker that has the printed text “HELLO MY NAME IS” and below that each of the three stickers is signed “Sabrina” in distinctly different handwriting. Widescreen Kodachrome DSLR photo with shallow dof. Bonus [![](https://i.imgur.com/1VDtMUB.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/1VDtMUB.jpeg) > **Summary** > > An image of three characters named Sabrina. Kiernan Shipka as she appeared in “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”, Melissa Joan Hart as she appeared in “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and Audrey Hepburn as she appeared in the 1954 movie “Sabrina”. Style it like a movie poster with the title “SABRINAS”, similar to a poster for “Heathers”. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/90 "2025-04-23T21:43:04Z")
Fascinating… It accurately reproduces the most common arrangement of numbers on a d20 (twice), but puts a 40 and two 0s on a d6. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/91 "2025-04-23T21:51:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > but puts a 40 and two 0s on a d6 Those are, uh, custom dice for an RPG you don’t know about. Yeah, that’s it. Also the d8 that lets you roll a 20, 0 or 00. Anyway, don’t lose them or you’ll have a devil of a time finding new ones. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/92 "2025-04-24T00:38:09Z")
And as I think about it, both of those d20s are also in the exact same “pose”, which shows the 20 as the number rolled, and right-side-up. And it occurs to me that the image of a d20 is very frequently used as a symbol of the hobby, and it’s almost always oriented that way. The net result might be that the AIs don’t have a model of a d20 as a three-dimensional object at all, but merely as a 2-dimensional icon. What happens when you try to see different orientations of one? Or ask one of the animation generators to rotate it? ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/93 "2025-04-24T00:59:47Z")
I gave ChatGPT a very simple prompt: “Several d20 dice bouncing across a table”. [![](https://i.imgur.com/ttgSDje.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ttgSDje.jpeg) I gave the same prompt to Gemini [![](https://i.imgur.com/1iJ2CYr.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/1iJ2CYr.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:** [April 24, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/94 "2025-04-24T01:09:25Z")
“Now create a fantasy hybrid between d20 dice and bacteriophages. There are several of the hybrid dice attaching to an e. coli cell.” [![](https://i.imgur.com/3W8kybP.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/3W8kybP.jpeg) ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/95 "2025-04-24T23:38:25Z")
It really likes duplicating numbers on dice. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/96 "2025-04-25T00:04:55Z")
I’m enjoying how it takes old photos and animates them. It also gave me a human version of my cat. [![](https://i.ibb.co/Vc4mfHmw/8915849869224124930.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/Vc4mfHmw/8915849869224124930.png) [![](https://i.ibb.co/36Dr7dC/IMG-1971.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/36Dr7dC/IMG-1971.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:** [April 25, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/97 "2025-04-25T00:20:58Z")
Pretty good. You can even see some of the expression in the eyes copying over. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/98 "2025-04-25T00:36:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It really likes duplicating numbers on dice. I tried a prompt specifically explaining that it shouldn’t repeat numbers on sides, but it didn’t work. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/99 "2025-04-25T00:45:20Z")
Perhaps try telling it explicitly which digits you want showing on the side of the die the viewer can see. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/100 "2025-04-25T00:48:59Z")
Could do, if you are showing just one die. In my try it was a version of the bacteriophage idea, and there were (counting) 45 faces big/focused enough to have discernable numbers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=6)