# 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:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1841 "2026-05-04T19:56:30Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Those of you who lived in my alternate-reality version of the 80s
I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Or get the contact info for your pusher; I’m not sure which. 🤪
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1842 "2026-05-04T20:08:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
> Create an image of Jophel’s newsletter based in an alternate history 1980s. Jophel looks like this image
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/kVg99k0J/Gemini-Generated-Image-ynt774ynt774ynt7.jpg)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/LsKDQLV/Copilot-20260504-160334.jpg)
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/8gsQnbgH/81c526e6-17f8-40f8-81a1-01d5687ec664.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2026, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1843 "2026-05-05T01:05:34Z")
You just lucky that Art Instruction Schools went out of business or you’d be so sued for Tippy the Turtle infringement!
I’m not sure if “Jophel” was an error in prompting or if your image gen really hates I’s
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2026, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1844 "2026-05-05T09:13:02Z")
I guess there are at least two very different modes for image generation. one is sort of idealistic artistic output where a user tries to achieve a photographic output that looks like a drawing or a photograph
And then there’s this
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/erPpD8H.jpeg)
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/5ujYUpM.png)
And I guess this thread knows which one it’s mostly about
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1845 "2026-05-06T16:28:32Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> Was the first one a rare example of an anti-Freudian slip?
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> or in this case, a Freudian bra, I suppose?
LOLOLOL.
ChatGPT actually came up with a version that was more cartoonish, which was what I wanted, but when I tried to get it to change “breast” to “boob” it balked. Never mind it had already generated a different one with that word in it.
I don’t know if this link will work for anyone other than myself but here’s the image:
[Build-a-… image](https://www.customink.com/proof_approvals/9299446?token=9163d098-3dad-11f1-8bb3-72b2700fb1c9)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1846 "2026-05-06T16:36:23Z")
Gemini will do lots of things that ChatGPT won’t, but it balks at trying to make a boob-footed Bluey.
> Create an image of the animated dog Bluey that has breasts instead of feet
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1847 "2026-05-06T16:51:18Z")
And here’s an interaction I just had with Copilot on the subject
> **[Bluey Pun Concept Ideas](https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/xY24DPxnLA3xoK5sea1GT)**
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> Shared via Copilot
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1848 "2026-05-07T15:01:08Z")
[In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell.](https://youtu.be/4cF6D8zDa9U)
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1849 "2026-05-13T12:22:50Z")
I told it to create an image of the presidents in the style of MAD magazine. The AI invented all the text.
[ ](https://images.nightcafe.studio/jobs/YyR8wUwZykJsJNZx7dOP/YyR8wUwZykJsJNZx7dOP--0--KboNh.jpg?tr=w-1080,c-at_max)
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1850 "2026-05-13T12:38:13Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> create an image of the presidents in the style of MAD magazine.
I used that as my exact prompt to ChatGPT 5.5 and got this:
[ ](https://i.gyazo.com/41776aa64a7ea9c9555ab308a20bdccc.png)
I was impressed, only one major glitch! Can you spot it?
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### Author:  [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1851 "2026-05-13T12:42:41Z")
Missing Sleepy Joe
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1852 "2026-05-13T12:43:06Z")
Okay, two major glitches.
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### Author:  [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1853 "2026-05-13T12:46:26Z")
Also missing John Tyler.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1854 "2026-05-13T12:46:27Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#):
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> I was impressed, only one major glitch! Can you spot it?
Yeah, who’s the guy with no nameplate shoehorned in between FDR and Truman? Kinda looks like a caricature of Gene Hackman.
As for the lack of Biden, the AI could be working on data that predates the 2020 election, maybe?
ETA: No Hoover, either. Maybe that explains the person between FDR and Truman with no nameplate-- was supposed to be Hoover, but the AI got the order wrong, left off the nameplate, and created a person who doesn’t look like Hoover at all.
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1855 "2026-05-13T13:04:56Z")
> [@solost](#):
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> As for the lack of Biden, the AI could be working on data that predates the 2020 election, maybe?
ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff is supposed to be 2024 or 2025. The image generator part of it relies on separate training. I did note it was missing Biden but I gave it a pass on that, maybe I shouldn’t have. I totally missed noting the other absences. I was never required to learn all the presidents as a rote list in school.
The major glitch count in that continues to rise. A minor glitch I noticed was how it didn’t do well on adding distinguishing initials for shared last names.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1856 "2026-05-13T13:22:30Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> create an image of the presidents in the style of MAD magazine
> [@Ponderoid](#):
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> I used that as my exact prompt to ChatGPT 5.5
I did the same, and I got this:
[ ](https://imgur.com/cyhCZD3)
It also left out Biden, but at least it had Tyler and Hoover, and didn’t have the unknown guy between FDR and HST.
It really compacted the last 15 images into one row.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1857 "2026-05-13T13:29:17Z")
> [@JoePockets](#):
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> Missing Sleepy Joe
> [@solost](#):
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> Yeah, who’s the guy with no nameplate shoehorned in between FDR and Truman?
I think that IS Biden.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1858 "2026-05-13T13:50:18Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#):
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> A minor glitch I noticed was how it didn’t do well on adding distinguishing initials for shared last names.
I actually thought it did this impressively well. For most shared last names, it picked the more famous one as the unmarked “default.”
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1859 "2026-05-13T16:18:47Z")
Same prompt in Gemini.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/d0FJf8Rz/Gemini-Generated-Image-soy60osoy60osoy6.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/1860 "2026-05-13T16:30:16Z")
> Create an image of the presidents in the style of Henry Darger.
ChatGPT
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/r2NZXy01/1f299999-d64a-4945-9179-376996d0daae.jpg)
Copilot
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/0p7f0J6Y/Copilot-20260513-122332.jpg)
Gemini
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/hJs3Jrc2/Gemini-Generated-Image-lq0ckjlq0ckjlq0c.jpg)
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