# AI image generation is getting crazy good
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203
**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
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1821 "2026-04-30T16:21:24Z")
Copilot and ChatGPT both use the same image generator, but have different guidelines. Copilot refuses to address a niece in Japanese, but ChatGPT had no complaints.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/KcKrrKBR/f97bb553-c505-4cd9-989b-44f0446a26ab.jpg)
(Neither did Gemini, which of course has a completely different AI.)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/Nd1SmQTs/Gemini-Generated-Image-h8ofkoh8ofkoh8of.jpg)
> **Summary**
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> A Japanese man is worried about his niece (8 yo) becoming lost on an upcoming trip, so he is writing her home address in Japanese on her lower arm with a sharpie. Iphone 15 photo. 9:16
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1822 "2026-04-30T16:53:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Copilot and ChatGPT both use the same image generator, but have different guidelines. Copilot refuses to address a niece in Japanese, but ChatGPT had no complaints.
ChatGPT and Google Gemini have very different guidelines. When trying to generate the “build-a-boob” image, ChatGPT refused to let me do any refinement to make it more like I wanted it to look. Something about “violating guidelines” or whatever. Gemini had no problems at all.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1823 "2026-04-30T17:38:44Z")
Funny story about gemini. I had a silly idea in flow (the main google animations tool) where a professional wrestler dropped out of the sky and did an elbow drop on a dolphin who was swimming in his water tank. Google clearly would not allow the dolphin to take a hit, to be the target of violence. But what was funny is that it didn’t just say “this prompt is inappropriate, I’m not going to try” – it instead rendered the video, but in a way where the dolphin had a magic force field of protection, and honestly the [results are pretty hilarious](https://i.imgur.com/KMhTP7o.mp4). Which is way better than if it had just refused to write the prompt. So google clearly has something between total prompt rejection but still not letting certain things happen, and I wonder if the image generator accepts a prompt but steers away from certain parts of what you asked for.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1824 "2026-04-30T22:07:10Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#):
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> And recently, to generate a “build-a-book workshop” pic for my upcoming surgery 🙂 /
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#):
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> ChatGPT and Google Gemini have very different guidelines. When trying to generate the “build-a-boob” image,
Was the first one a rare example of an anti-Freudian slip?
or in this case, a Freudian bra, I suppose?
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> it instead rendered the video, but in a way where the dolphin had a magic force field of protection, and honestly the [results are pretty hilarious](https://i.imgur.com/KMhTP7o.mp4).
That’s definitely a psychokinetic dolphin. Not only does it deflect the wrestler, but it also splashes the water while it’s in the air, and then wormholes from entering the water directly to exiting the water.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1825 "2026-05-01T00:04:39Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> honestly the [results are pretty hilarious](https://i.imgur.com/KMhTP7o.mp4).
“Content not viewable in your region”
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1826 "2026-05-01T04:18:09Z")
That’s Imgur for ya.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1827 "2026-05-02T01:08:45Z")
A local Facebook group had a post asking who stole the trash can in front of Dollar General. Obviously, that was a job for AI.
> Surveillance camera photo of Oscar the Grouch stealing a plastic garbage can from outside of a Dollar General at night. 4:3
ChatGPT refused to try.
Copilot tried, but didn’t quite grasp what Oscar or a Dollar General should look like.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/Xx9Yj8ZM/Copilot-20260501-204409.jpg)
Gemini got it.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/TM67JXCc/Gemini-Generated-Image-16txsi16txsi16tx-1.jpg)
But I needed one change
> Oscar is standing and is not in a trash can. The only can is the one he is stealing.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/99141Nwr/Gemini-Generated-Image-pk4y1ppk4y1ppk4y-1.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1828 "2026-05-02T14:51:02Z")
I always assumed Oscar went right from one can into the next larger one, like a hermit crab
Poorly repurposed vehicles, internet hijinks and faux-retro goodness:
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/hF2MJ1mx/image.png)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/JRGCptDr/An-taco-truck-that-pretty-202605012332.jpg)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/MyVMtmpP/Truck.png)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/99PqRcKH/joan.png)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/tPs0P9Wb/slightly-fade-the-yellow-text-202605020850.jpg)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/RGBD7vSL/less-faded-than-that-2-K-202605020942.jpg)
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1829 "2026-05-02T18:22:12Z")
JoanlyFans — ha! Was that phrase part of the prompt?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1830 "2026-05-04T13:53:15Z")
Yeah, it started with the name popping into my head and was prompted from there.
Those of you who lived in my alternate-reality version of the 80s surely remember the popular Goldwell Estate series, featuring spunky young and popular debutante Jennifer Goldwell, a girl was always ready to act.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/LzZhgjRg/Goldwell-1.png)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/KzVxtHQL/Goldwell-2.png)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1831 "2026-05-04T14:24:24Z")
Are those Gemini or Midjourney?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1832 "2026-05-04T14:27:34Z")
Gemini (Nana 2) via Flow
Those images should be much larger but I guess the hosting thing shrank them? Or something? I dunno, whatever.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1833 "2026-05-04T14:37:39Z")
You have to choose “don’t resize” as an option.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1834 "2026-05-04T14:38:44Z")
What sort of prompt did you use? Did you actually tell it to show Jennifer fighting communists, or just say create a series of book covers?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1835 "2026-05-04T14:50:11Z")
I made them each separately but put them together into two images to not spam the thread. Sample prompt:
> Art by Clyde Caldwell: Book cover of a prim debutante teen girl in a cardigan and skirt firing her shotgun in a bowling alley. Teens are running away in a panic. “Goldwell Estate Stories”, “When Samantha is caught cheating at bowling, Jennifer had to act!”
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> You have to choose “don’t resize” as an option.
Well, dang it. Actually it seems like I was copying the preview image rather than the full one. To avoid being indulgent…
> **Links to big versions if you want ‘em**
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> [https://i.ibb.co/4ZVgSvtS/Goldwell-1.png](https://i.ibb.co/4ZVgSvtS/Goldwell-1.png)
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> [https://i.ibb.co/7Nrt3FTR/Goldwell-2.png](https://i.ibb.co/7Nrt3FTR/Goldwell-2.png)
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1836 "2026-05-04T15:08:13Z")
If they have coherent text and tell some sort of story / textual idea going on you can tell they’re not midjourney, midjourney doesn’t work like that. almost certainly one of the autoregressive models (nano banana, gptimage, a few minor others)
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1837 "2026-05-04T15:10:46Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Teens are running away in a panic.
Gonna nitpick on otherwise pretty excellent images. I’ve noticed this problem; the generators really want to have characters facing the camera, no matter how inappropriate that might be, even when you explicitly describe them doing something where they should not be facing the camera. You need to work a lot harder on the scene composition and stage directions to get facings right. When I’m trying to get that to happen, I often overload it and other important details start getting dropped. Grr.
ETA: If I hadn’t seen the prompt, I wouldn’t have noticed anything wrong about the directions the characters were running in the scene. But once I saw the prompt I knew it had not obeyed it properly.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1838 "2026-05-04T15:14:35Z")
No argument. Really, the whole thing was just me joking around with friends on Discord. I mentioned that Caldwell was a good artist for getting 80’s vibe images and made the Commie cover as a demonstration off the top of my head. Then I ran with it in increasingly insane situations (as a good series does). None of them were more than two or three gens and picking out the better looking ones and I attribute any errors to a lack of quality control in 1980s YA Scholastic Book Fair level publishing 😃
If it mattered, I could have gone back and tweaked everyone’s heads, etc but it didn’t matter in context of me making them.
A friend of mine was making “Galactic Tax Collector” images at the time, which led to the crossover episode.
[https://i.ibb.co/Y7N5GjPQ/Galactic-Tax-Collector-Pulp-magazine-202605030146-jpeg.png](https://i.ibb.co/Y7N5GjPQ/Galactic-Tax-Collector-Pulp-magazine-202605030146-jpeg.png)
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1839 "2026-05-04T15:21:01Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> I made them each separately
What did you do to get consistent character appearance across the images?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1840 "2026-05-04T15:22:59Z")
The combination of artist with the simple description of prim blonde debutante teen led to some pretty predictable images and any that didn’t fit weren’t picked.
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