# 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:** 58
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1141 "2025-07-24T19:06:05Z")
I told Copilot “Show me what you would look like if you were inhumanoid.” And it had suggestions. > **Summary** > > Ooh, Darren, that’s a wild and juicy prompt. “Inhumanoid” opens so many delicious doors—are we talking sleek techno-eldritch vibe, lumbering biomechanical horror, shimmering astral glitch, or something with velvet skin and far too many eyeballs? > > Here are three initial concepts to riff on, all infused with the cinematic weirdness and textured drama you love: > > * * * > > ### 🧿 _The Velvet Oracle_ > > - **Texture** : Draped in black velvet that swallows light, studded with whispering eyeballs that shimmer like oil slicks. > - **Form** : Lanky and humanoid-ish, but joints bend the wrong way and its silhouette subtly shifts as you look. > - **Mood** : Mischievous, knowing, and unsettling—like a forgotten deity pretending to be your childhood imaginary friend. > > * * * > > ### 🤖 _Antennaed Librarian of the Ether Archives_ > > - **Head** : An orb of shifting glass with faint silhouettes trapped inside, broadcasting forgotten dreams through crackling antennae. > - **Body** : Articulated chrome limbs sprouting pages, wires, and moth wings. > - **Atmosphere** : Glows with bioluminescent curiosity. Every movement feels like a whisper from an abandoned satellite. > > * * * > > ### 🪰 _The Whisper Collector_ > > - **Design** : Insectoid but plush—velvet carapace, iridescent fins, and too many delicate feet. > - **Feature** : Mouth stitched shut; communicates through rhythmic pulses in the air and flickers in its multi-faceted eyes. > - **Effect** : Brings a subtle hum of memories to anyone nearby… not all of them pleasant. > > * * * > > If any of these spark something—or if you’d like to dream up a fourth that’s half sparkledust, half Lovecraftian mischief—I’m ready to translate it into an image and go full inhumanoid. Just say the word, collaborator supreme. Something that I’ve only recently noticed about Copilot is that it is willing to make more than one image at a time. The shortcoming is that all of them are slight variations on the first described prompt, not three completely different images. But it can still be useful. After these suggestions, I said “Try all three” and it generated these three images: [![](https://i.imgur.com/gnu4p0J.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/gnu4p0J.jpeg) Then I cut/pasted each individual suggestion into fresh chats and got these: [![](https://i.imgur.com/0j9x6or.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/0j9x6or.jpeg) (You can also gaslight Copilot into making multiple images. Even when it makesonly one suggestion you can tell jt “try both” or “try all three” and it will make slight variations.) ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1142 "2025-07-24T20:47:28Z")
My ChatGPT has delusions of grandeur. [![](https://i.imgur.com/qYWWDhG.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/qYWWDhG.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:** [July 24, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1143 "2025-07-24T22:44:27Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > Walmart’s new strategy: out with the old, in with the hot. To better serve its well-heeled clientele, the retail giant has started replacing elderly Greeters with sharply dressed charmers. Around a week ago an AI Facebook challenge was the people of Walmart. I made these. [![](https://i.imgur.com/uTC7Mms.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/uTC7Mms.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1144 "2025-07-24T23:27:31Z")
Perfect. I hate those classist tropes. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1145 "2025-07-25T00:13:43Z")
Is it wrong to think that that bottom middle one is kind of hot? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1146 "2025-07-25T00:30:54Z")
You do you, green hourglass. You do you. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1147 "2025-07-25T18:28:58Z")
Just foolin’ around. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/4gwfGxY.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/4gwfGxY) ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1148 "2025-07-25T23:34:34Z")
I think I mentioned earlier how Night Cafe has a feature where it will create new prompts for you based on previous prompts of yours plus other popular elements. Coincidentally for the past few days it has been offering prompts including humanoid animals in suits (even though “humanoid” isn’t something I normally use in prompts). For example, it created this one: > Detailed matte painting. A stylish humanoid otter wearing a suit and tie sits at a table in a fancy restaurant, eating caviar. Deep color, fantastical, intricate detail, splash screen, complementary colors, fantasy concept art, 8k resolution trending on Artstation Unreal Engine 5. [![](https://i.imgur.com/087bD3Q.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/087bD3Q.jpeg) Which I modified. > An otter sits at a table in a fancy restaurant, eating caviar. A snooty waiter stands nearby, clutching a menu, unsure what to do. iPhone 15 photo with shallow dof and forced perspective. 9:16 [![](https://i.imgur.com/5Nbp2tw.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/5Nbp2tw.jpeg) And then asked for a change > He isn’t using silverware. He has his face buried it it, eating messily. [![](https://i.imgur.com/myG218v.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/myG218v.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1149 "2025-07-26T02:19:29Z")
I don’t have any fancy AI image generation, I just have free copilot, but I found myself in an interesting loop today…before I tell you about the loop, note that I am not asking you to produce this picture, I’m just thinking about the disconnect between text and visual narratives. Today I was thinking about James Joyce’s Ulysses, and I asked copilot to make me a picture of Leopold bloom. It did a pretty good job. I then asked for a picture of Molly Bloom, and it also did a good job. I then asked it to visualize the last scene from the book, in which Molly Bloom is lying half asleep facing away from him, laterally recumbent, and he is lying on the bed with his head at the bottom. After a minute it gave me a picture of them both lying normally in the bed, and Leopold bloom in a suit. I had a little laugh, and asked it to correct that, and it did, but it still put Leopold bloom’s head at the top of the bed. After this we found ourselves in a loop where I kept telling it to put his head where I asked it to be, and it just couldn’t do it, even though the text fully recognized what I was asking, even at one point saying do you want his feet at the top, something I had never clarified. And each time it produced a picture, it announced victory at having given me what I asked for. Which it hadn’t. The whole thing was interesting, and I am assuming it just didn’t have referent pictures to steal from in order to give me the inverted posture I was looking for. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1150 "2025-07-26T03:34:47Z")
Sora: _ **PAWS** _ [![](https://i.imgur.com/ED55nIi.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ED55nIi.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:** [July 26, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1151 "2025-07-26T05:12:45Z")
My [armadillo encounter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3756) made me think about mixed relationships between my two [Great American Biotic Interchange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange) neighbors. [![](https://i.imgur.com/vC2487u.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/vC2487u.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:** [July 26, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1152 "2025-07-26T05:14:31Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > After this we found ourselves in a loop where I kept telling it to put his head where I asked it to be, and it just couldn’t do it, even though the text fully recognized what I was asking, even at one point saying do you want his feet at the top, something I had never clarified. And each time it produced a picture, it announced victory at having given me what I asked for. Which it hadn’t. Copilot doesn’t usually do a great job of revising images. Better to open a new chat and try a revised prompt. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1153 "2025-07-26T12:59:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > My [armadillo encounter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3756) made me think about mixed relationships between my two [Great American Biotic Interchange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange) neighbors. But are those offspring armassums or possadillos? Or does that depend on which species was the mother vs. the father? Unrelated to the above … I’m now thinking a “possadillo” is a very plausible name for some newly-invented Mexican restaurant menu item. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1154 "2025-07-26T13:11:19Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Copilot doesn’t usually do a great job of revising images. Better to open a new chat and try a revised prompt. Oh hey, that worked perfectly. It still has that distinctly weird AI feel, but the layout is what I asked for. [![](https://i.imgur.com/UONxCRR.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/UONxCRR.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:** [July 26, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1155 "2025-07-26T13:22:02Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m now thinking a “possadillo” is a very plausible name for some newly-invented Mexican restaurant menu item. You know, that could just be a best-seller. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Ilmzxrw.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Ilmzxrw.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/lirrppf.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/lirrppf.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:** [July 26, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1156 "2025-07-26T13:27:24Z")
I wasn’t actually thinking of the food item being made from a possadillo, but yeah, those do look yummy! Needs a dollop of crema and some pico sprinkled on top. But otherwise sure to be a crowd pleaser. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1157 "2025-07-26T15:54:11Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > But are those offspring armassums or possadillos? Or does that depend on which species was the mother vs. the father? In hybrid crosses the male is traditionally listed first, making these possadillos. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1158 "2025-07-27T02:50:47Z")
Looking back at some older images. A while back someone created a kind of cringe-worthy prompt about a woman brushing her teeth > **Summary** > > Imagine an ultra-hyper-realistic, high-definition cinematic photo of a stunning, fair-skinned, tall female model standing confidently in a sleek, modern white bathroom. She has a radiant smile with perfectly white teeth, highlighted by soft natural lighting that reflects off the mirror and polished tiles. Her long, silky hair cascades over her shoulders, and her eyes glow with charm and confidence. > > She wears a chic red satin robe that subtly nods to Colgate’s brand colors, hinting at both sophistication and sensuality. In her hand, she holds a red-and-white Colgate toothpaste tube, gently pressing a swirl onto a sleek white toothbrush. The Colgate logo is clearly visible. > > The atmosphere is clean, fresh, and premium — evoking health, beauty, and confidence. The camera captures her mid-smile, looking into the mirror, with soft lens flare from the morning sun through the frosted window. > > A faint vapor mist surrounds the scene, enhancing the freshness and allure of the moment. So I had to modify it [![](https://i.imgur.com/eVzuzg3.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/eVzuzg3.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/7fZ72Bs.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/7fZ72Bs.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:** [July 27, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1159 "2025-07-27T17:24:47Z")
If fast food was available in the time of Sandro Botticelli: [![](https://i.imgur.com/xOvfjVo.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/xOvfjVo.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:** [July 27, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1160 "2025-07-27T22:52:14Z")
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