# 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:** 64
**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:** [August 20, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1261 "2025-08-20T22:37:31Z")
Back to Bigfoot, Kling did an excellent job of bringing it to life [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hNLbiZD2W0U/maxresdefault.jpg "August 20, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLbiZD2W0U) ---
**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:** [August 23, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1262 "2025-08-23T06:13:16Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/OkCHiud.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/OkCHiud.jpeg) > **Summary** > > A two panel comic. In the first panel, several teens are pointing at an older bald man. The teens are laughing. The old man is sad. They are all wearing ancient robes. The caption for the first panel is “Go up, bald head! Go up bald head!” In the second panel two bears are attacking the teens. The old man is standing watching, very happy. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1263 "2025-08-24T13:03:01Z")
Gert and Larry from _I Hate Fairyland_ [![](https://i.imgur.com/YPXQRud.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/YPXQRud.jpeg) Original [![](https://i.imgur.com/tAuwq0P.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/tAuwq0P.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1264 "2025-08-25T20:41:33Z")
[AI Art Inspired by SDMB Posts - #21 by Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/21) – seeking AI artists to join in the fun. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1265 "2025-08-29T15:38:18Z")
For shitz and gigglez, I had Vue (Gemini), create a commercial for our business. It only does 8-second renderings, so I had to splice two of them together. It went… OK. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8SfvgbX2BBM/maxresdefault.jpg "BSA Roofer Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SfvgbX2BBM) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1266 "2025-08-29T15:49:51Z")
My biggest problems were in making the guy look the same between videos, as well as having the narrator keep the same voice. Not too sure I was 100% on either of them, but whatever. Close enough. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1267 "2025-08-29T16:15:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > A two panel comic Was that based on anything, or just a random thought ?! ---
**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:** [August 29, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1268 "2025-08-29T16:19:03Z")
It’s from the Bible. > **[2 Kings 2:23 - Elisha Mocked](https://biblehub.com/2_kings/2-23.htm)** > > From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1269 "2025-08-29T17:05:45Z")
Ah. Thanks. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1270 "2025-08-29T18:22:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It’s from the Bible. I recognized it! Was it discussed here on the Dope before? I can’t remember where I learned about it. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1271 "2025-08-29T21:22:05Z")
It was mentioned in the Biblical trash talking thread just a week ago. > [@Biblical trash talking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-trash-talking/1022404/4): > > Also from 2 Kings: Elisha gets revenge on some trash-talkers in the most badass way possible. And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1272 "2025-08-29T21:33:57Z")
Thanks! ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1273 "2025-08-31T07:45:58Z")
Interesting article on Google Gemini’s latest update [https://www.techspot.com/news/109259-google-gemini-nano-banana-ai-image-generator-blowing.html](https://www.techspot.com/news/109259-google-gemini-nano-banana-ai-image-generator-blowing.html) ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1274 "2025-08-31T21:59:34Z")
I figured I’d give Gemini a try after all the breathy reports of throwing a half dozen jpgs at it from across the room and it making amazing images. I started out giving it reference images for three Pathfinder characters from out current game and asking for them to be posed in a shrine with Spruce kneeling and watching a butterfly land on his weapon, Thrakka cooking something over a brazier and Zophiel reading a book. [![](https://i.imgur.com/TNI01ET.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/TNI01ET.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/wcQanNj.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/wcQanNj.png) The result wasn’t bad! I only had one real complaint and it was Spruce’s starknife had two of its three blades in a straight line. I wanted them to be equally spaces and radiating from the center. Gemini sagely agreed and rendered Spruce fighting a metal octopus [![](https://i.imgur.com/aweyjfx.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/aweyjfx.png) I thought maybe some more assistance was needed so drew up a quick outline of what I meant and offered a guide as to where I was talking about. Gemini agreed that it totally understood me now and put a mangled starknife in the upper corner of the image. [![](https://i.imgur.com/nVCzvVw.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/nVCzvVw.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/y4sNVLH.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/y4sNVLH.png) At this point I started over. I changed Thrakka to be sharpening his sword. After a very cartoony first attempt and my request for a more classic fantasy art style, it gave me this where it really just copy and pasted Spruce from the reference without any attempt to modify him or his pose. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Hn19MwI.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Hn19MwI.png) I asked for his head to be turned and Gemini obliged. The image came out… okayish. [![](https://i.imgur.com/rOdKlW9.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/rOdKlW9.png) I mean, definitely impressive for a computer to use those references and make this\[1\] – don’t get me wrong – but certainly not living up to expectations based on the breathless hype to spend an hour arguing with it. Not shown are the five instances where it said “Oh yeah, I get it. You want me to [restates me requests]…” then just gave the identical image to the previous one and said “See, I fixed it!” Anyway, super cool but less carefree than the articles suggest (not just the linked one above, I’ve seen a lot about this the last two days) * * * 1. 2022 me would be amazed as all hell to have gotten this, how quickly we get jaded ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1275 "2025-09-01T01:22:34Z")
Testing Gemini with a little Mayberry humor. Included my cat for good measure. [![](https://i.imgur.com/9l6OFHw.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/9l6OFHw.jpeg) _Barney was reluctant to try Aunt Bee’s homemade pickles, but she insisted._ ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1276 "2025-09-01T01:25:58Z")
The cat is certainly alarmed. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1277 "2025-09-01T01:35:48Z")
Something about the people in that Mayberry scene makes them stand out unrealistically from the background. It’s like they’re greenscreened in, or something. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1278 "2025-09-01T01:38:16Z")
From a distance, I only see it on Barney, and I think it may be the color. Closer up, I see the characteristic “opaque edges” that aren’t blended in, which you see on low resolution photoshop jobs. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1279 "2025-09-01T01:41:21Z")
That’s because of the starting images I fed Gemini. The original had Aunt Bee and Andy. I switched out Andy for Barney, but his image was higher resolution. Gemini didn’t account for that. Could have fixed it, but just kept the first iteration. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1280 "2025-09-01T02:55:43Z")
Sora did a bit better. Made some mistakes (like Aunt Bee’s right hand), but did a better job of harmonizing/blending. [![](https://i.imgur.com/7ACxI35.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/7ACxI35.jpeg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=65)