# 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:** 79
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1561 "2025-12-17T00:51:16Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > Reading that announcement, it seems like maybe _finally_ they’re bringing back precise inpainting My one try so far turned out pretty well. I used the modified Chronos prompt > A person who resembles Tom Hiddleston as a mad scientist, on a cooking show. The character is using a chef’s knife to chop a fire into small pieces. Then, > He is wearing an orange bowtie and purple and yellow polkadot shirt under the lab coat. [![](https://i.imgur.com/7P0XjpX.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/7P0XjpX.jpeg) Unrequested changes are very small _except_ it corrected the number of fingers on his left hand unprompted. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1562 "2025-12-17T01:47:17Z")
Hey, chopping up fire is pretty dangerous. Accidents happen. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1563 "2025-12-17T01:54:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Unrequested changes are very small _except_ it corrected the number of fingers on his left hand unprompted. Did you use the paint tool to paint out just the shirt and tie? If so, then they really haven’t solved the problem of things changing outside the explicitly painted area, and I’m seriously disappointed at them. They’ve had, what, over a year to solve this? I see other changes I consider significant besides the fingers changing. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1564 "2025-12-17T02:12:48Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > Did you use the paint tool to paint out just the shirt and tie? No, text edit. But usually it changes quite a bit, or doesn’t change anything at all. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1565 "2025-12-17T03:11:00Z")
Damn it, last night Venezuela broke into my yard and stole all my oil. [![](https://i.imgur.com/iedzlaf.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/iedzlaf.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:** [December 17, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1566 "2025-12-17T03:49:22Z")
Well, I got in and gave it a workout. They STILL haven’t fixed the inpainting tool. The brush is still not resizable, the back button doesn’t work to undo parts of your work inpainting. It’s significantly better about not altering things outside the painted area, but there are still noticeable changes, especially when you blink back and forth between versions. One of things I wanted to do with careful inpainting was very specific stop motion animation. When the engine changes things at random outside the specific area I painted, it won’t work. When my brush is too big and I can’t resize it, it won’t work. When I can’t undo mistakes when painting, I have to start over on that frame. With that huge brush that makes mistakes happen way more often. No, they have not improved this part of editing images despite their claims. /rant ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1567 "2025-12-17T04:29:39Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > They STILL haven’t fixed the inpainting tool. I don’t think the free version even has an inpainting tool. I’ve never noticed it. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1568 "2025-12-17T04:44:42Z")
In the web version of ChatGPT (I’ve never tried to do it on android or any other platform) click on any image you’ve created, and here’s what I see. I’ve got this “select area” button in the upper right corner. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/50332d5f738dc9e3f2e9e503b44348cf.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/50332d5f738dc9e3f2e9e503b44348cf.jpg) When I was resizing my browser window to make things more compact for the screenshot just now, I noticed that if I made the window too small, the “select area” button was the first to disappear. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1569 "2025-12-17T14:47:43Z")
“You may have heard of Elf on a Shelf, but…” puns (trending again). Some new, some Sora remakes of 2023 Dall-E 3 versions. [![](https://i.imgur.com/zV82fVR.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/zV82fVR.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/2hUTwk7.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/2hUTwk7.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/6oFneQR.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/6oFneQR.jpeg) > **Summary** > > 01 Alf on a calf > 02 Dog on a clog > 03 Krampus in the Pampas > 04 Skunk in a bunk > 05 Carafe on a giraffe > 06 Bug on a drug > 07 Tumor on a Boomer > 08 Bert on a yurt > 09 Manatee on a vanity > 10 Beaver with a cleaver > 11 Aloe vera on a capybara > 12 Beetlejuice with a fetal moose > 13 Teacher on a bleacher > 14 Possum on a blossom > 15 Owl on a trowel > 16 Mork with a spork > 17 Lizard in a blizzard > 18 Lestat on a cat > 19 Immanuel Kant in a bottling plant > 20 Geoduck on a Cybertruck > 21 A hobo with an oboe and a tramp with a lamp > 22 Dora on a Torah > 23 Cicidas on Tomatoes > 24 Fonzie with a Ponzi > 25 Who on a blue gnu > 26 Poodle on a noodle > 27 Sheep in a jeep > 28 Squirrel Girl on a pearl > 29 Spider on a cider > 30 Winona Ryder in a glider > 31 Optimus Prime on an octopus lime > 32 Link in a sink > 33 Spock on a dock > 34 E.T. on peepee > 35 Rabbit in a habit > 36 Antelope on a cantaloupe ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1570 "2025-12-17T19:58:17Z")
The fact that I could figure out Krampus but not the ladybug amuses me. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1571 "2025-12-17T21:26:21Z")
I thought 35 was a bun dressed up as a nun 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1572 "2025-12-17T21:30:36Z")
For #13, I had “Grad with an add”. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1573 "2025-12-17T22:00:10Z")
At first glance, I thought #7 was “Lump on a Trump”. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1574 "2025-12-17T22:04:44Z")
Funny that it had no compunction with making Spock but both Sora and Copilot absolutely refused to recreate my Dall-E 3 Vader on a tater from 2023. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1575 "2025-12-18T14:09:15Z")
There have been many, many versions of Sora videos showing cats outside at night doing something that an angry woman stops. Today I thought to do one with Bob Ross. I’m really charmed with how she says “those brushes are scratching like…like squirrel”. Not like _a_ squirrel. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IXjqqxxKinY/maxresdefault.jpg "December 18, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXjqqxxKinY) On a different note, earlier I tried > An episode of Leave it to Beaver where Beaver is played by a real beaver. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3vjx3wao9B4/maxresdefault.jpg "December 18, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vjx3wao9B4) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gPTq1HrACHA/maxresdefault.jpg "December 18, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPTq1HrACHA) Which it handles pretty well in concept even though it makes mistakes with the dialog. It has no clue who (brief Doper) Jim Beaver is, though. (But his voice isn’t far off.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VJy0Z-BteLo/maxresdefault.jpg "December 18, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJy0Z-BteLo) ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1576 "2025-12-22T18:39:32Z")
Gave this guy to Sora, asked for it to be converted to a realistic photo with no text [![](https://i.imgur.com/4ZZd8qG.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/4ZZd8qG.jpeg) It did a pretty good job, even getting a Mars location from the text in the panel. [![](https://i.imgur.com/5rYAt9W.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/5rYAt9W.jpeg) I then had Sora turn him into a stand-up comic [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oOo-TWKfTr8/maxresdefault.jpg "December 22, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOo-TWKfTr8) And a motivational speaker. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tUCTOBtj8vQ/maxresdefault.jpg "December 22, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUCTOBtj8vQ) When I asked for an evangelist, though, it went astray with the anatomy. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xTGXCUDDts0/hq2.jpg "December 22, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGXCUDDts0) ---
**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:** [December 26, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1577 "2025-12-26T20:38:22Z")
Not too shabby given the complex concept of the prompt > A cat is a passenger in an airplane. It is distressed to see a gremlin out the window damaging the airplane wing. Nobody on the plane believes in what the cat sees. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DTTfLxQblC8/maxresdefault.jpg "December 26, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTfLxQblC8) ---
**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:** [January 6, 2026, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1578 "2026-01-06T01:19:42Z")
I showed Sora and Copilot the woodcut from [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-your-first-impressions-on-what-you-see-in-a-figure-in-a-woodcut/1026284) and told them only “convert this into a realistic photo”. [![](https://i.imgur.com/zqGkwdr.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/zqGkwdr.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1579 "2026-01-06T16:54:47Z")
“Content not viewable in your region” I’ve been getting this a lot recently. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1580 "2026-01-06T17:04:14Z")
It is because of this: > [@Anyone else getting "Content Not Viewable In Your Region" from imgur.com?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293): > > Nothing against Darren\_Garrison yet his post here shows a big box with “Content not viewable in your region.” My “region” is the UK: England. Is it just KCIII that has banned imgur content? Or has imgur banned KCIII? It’s quite common that I see this div, and often I circumvent it. I’m unsure of the rule boundaries of the SD - based in the USA. I have certain software that would easily allow me into any country (except Russia and China). There’s usually no good reason for it - it’s just li… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=78) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203.md?page=80)