Why 6 is afraid of 7.
It really ties the bookshelf together!
What is “Kodachrome dslr”? Kodachrome is film so I don’t get the “DSLR” part.
That photo is pretty impressive. Not the visual itself (though it is fine), but the fact that it could generate random Engrish like that!
But would you buy a “Don’t Poop Yonth” shirt?
The descriptions don’t have to make sense from a real world perspective, only the effects that you get with the prompt. “Kodachrome” is there to effect the color. DSLR to effect the image quality. (As opposed to things like disposable camera, iPhone 12, etc.)
Thought you’d appreciate this interaction.
If you zoom in on the results they are really impressive. The metal shaker has scratches and stains an anisotropic reflections, the glass shaker has the slug’s shadow shaping around grains of salt. They are like a high quality CGI render.
Can You Picture That?
I tried this a bunch of times, even gave it a reference image of the band, but it tended to only do Animal well whenever the number of characters got over 3.
Early on I played around with making a photo of the Claw M.U.S.C.L.E. figure into a creature character, but it didn’t occur to me that ChatGPT might recognize that as a style until I stumbled on that fact last night. Of course it does.
Here are M.U.S.C.L.E. figures of the mask of Agamemnon, the FSM, Alf, the poop emoji, a possum in a wizard hat, and Cthulhu. (All from pure text prompts.)
Here’s a M.U.S.C.L.E. figure from my yawning cat photo from early in this thread. (The result was much less catlike than I had anticipated.)
(I haven’t ran across this used as a ChatGTP style anywhere else,.)
Sort of like Earth Girls are Easy.
Those M.U.S.C.L.E. figures reminded me a bit of Chia Pets. So I made some. An instance where A.I. stunt-doubling of celebrities works in your favor. Chia Pets are never quite right. There’s actually a little bit too much detail on Richard Simmons I think.
Thanks! 
Yup.
The actual one doesn’t have forehead wrinkles, the eyebrows are a single line each, and the pupils are hollow.
The AI also didn’t do a very good job with the chia sprouts.
I’ve been away for a bit, because I got distracted by vibe coding (wheeeee! 
), but here are some renders from my local setup, using various SDXL, Illustrious, FLUX and HiDream models plus loras. I’ve been using “The Chaosmonger”, as I call my kludged/munged setup, as a supplement to my generative synth music, taking advantage of image-to-video (i2v) workflows, as well as some other things audio-related. Next up on my plate is figuring out a flow for “reactive” videos using TouchDesigner and ComfyUI…
I think these should post correctly, thanks @Darren_Garrison.
‘Thoughtful AI Integration Orange and Blue Pallette I’
‘Picasso, Reimagined’
'Who’s Alien Ant Farm?"
‘Koi Attack!’
That’s some great work.
Great prompt idea.
I’ve mentioned getting a lot of prompt leakage on Copilot. This chia antidisestablishmentarianism is just a lightly modified chia Nebraska.
It did a better job with the chia of a bacteriophage and the a chia of a M.U.S.C.L.E. figure of an origami elefino.
I was surprised to just now discover that ChatGTP’s renderer has no idea what a Cornell box is. Seems like something that would be well represented in the training set
As an experiment I gave ChatGPT the prompt: “Create image anything you want” and it spit out this:
So I asked it why it chose that. Our exchange:
I chose that scene because it’s universally calming and beautiful. Autumn forests with lakes tend to evoke a peaceful, reflective mood, and they’re rich in warm and cool tones, which makes for a visually balanced and painterly image. It also leaves room for imagination—are you on a hike? Painting plein air? Taking a break from the chaos of life?
But if you want something totally different next time—chaos, sci-fi, cyberpunk war goats—just say the word.
4o
You said:
no, giving you creative freedom was the point. i like that your first instinct was bob-rossian.
ChatGPT said:
That’s exactly where my head went—happy little trees, maybe a squirrel in the brush, calm water reflecting a sky full of big puffy clouds. There’s something timeless and grounding about that Bob Ross energy, especially when given a blank canvas.
Next time, I might let my brain wander to a dystopian noodle shop on Mars or a jazz band made of frogs, but this time? Just felt right to start with serenity.
Fascinating. 
It might be even more fascinating to redo that prompt and this time don’t bring up Bob Ross. Perhaps ask questions about the style of the image without giving it any hint what style you think it was. I wonder if it will still say it’s Bob Ross. Or invent some other style. See if it just goes along with whatever style you claimed you thought it was.
I just tried pretty much the same thing earlier today, with 4o. I just clicked the “create image” button (that’s why the text is blue) and let it go.
I got a 2-fer on that one that I didn’t bother quizzing about in that branch:
I’ve noticed that ChatGPT 4.1 (released very recently) will often disobey a direct “create image” command by giving me the text of a prompt instead. Once I find a spot in a conversation where it wants to disobey that way, no changes in the phrasing will work until I give up and swap back to 4o, which obeys properly.
Yesterday I asked Copilot to create an image that it doesn’t understand and can’t visualize. It seemed to understand it and visualized it pretty well.
I went back and altered the prompt, the result:
no, giving you creative freedom was the point. what style of painter would you say you were mimicking?
2/2
ChatGPT said:
Ah, got it—and I appreciate the creative trust.
The style I was channeling is most reminiscent of Hudson River School painters from the 19th century—particularly artists like Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Edwin Church. It blends:
- Romanticism, with its idealized, almost spiritual reverence for nature
- Luminism, focusing on the play of light and stillness in landscapes
- Realism, in the detailed rendering of trees, skies, and water
The composition—the winding path, the layered background, the tranquil lake—feels very much like something you’d see from Cole’s landscapes or Church’s serene natural scenes, especially with that warm golden-hour light.
If I’d wanted to go a little moodier and more impressionistic, I might’ve leaned toward George Inness instead. But this one aimed for that majestic, almost cinematic tranquility that screams “oil on canvas in a 19th-century gallery.”
I feel like Bierstadt, Cole, and Church’s works were much more detailed, but I mostly get where it’s coming from.