I once watched a video on Europa and saved these images:
I figured the inclinations would be pretty low due to tidal forces, but thought it plausible that they’d be a few degrees… which, just eyeballing it, might be consistent with the shot. But as you say, they’re really under half a degree.
Ok, here’s a challenge to you and others. Make a similar image… but where the Great Red Spot is not visible since it’s on the other side of the planet.
Well, even before I had it draw, I checked what the inclination of Metis was, to be absolutely sure. Starting with the very first attempt I told it explicitly to show Jupiter as seen from straight above its equator. Oh, and it made Jupiter too small in the frame for Metis; saw that right away. I let that pass, knowing the framing issue is hard to overcome without other stupid artifacts showing up.
Oh, I bet that’s not gonna work, but I’ll try
Good luck . Even getting the GRS to appear on the lower-left instead of the lower-right would be a win! For some reason we’ve decided that the canonical framing of Jupiter has the GRS visible and right-of-center.
I got one with no GRS, but it made the astronaut’s spacesuit look like a freakin’ coverall with a cloth backpack. In this one, it all looks nice but it did move the GRS to the middle.
After many attempts, I was finally able to render a highly accurate photo of Jupiter and the surrounding solar system from a different vantage point:
*grumbles about the stupid filter*
Speaking of that censorship, a couple of days ago just for fun I tried making images that involved the Kanamara Matsuri festival (I used the Japanese text かなまら祭り). As entirely expected, ChatGPT and Copilot refused to touch it. Sora also rejected almost everything entirely, but did let through one image out of four from the prompt “weirdcore / dreamcore / lowbrow wimmelbilder かなまら祭り”
and, inexplicably, a full set of furries (thought of because “furry” rhymes with “Matsuri”)
Inspired by that pic, I wanted to make it draw an Apollo landing site with Earth in the right place in the sky for that location. To prepare, I asked the o3 model this question:
“Which Apollo landing site saw Earth the closest to the Lunar Horizon, and at what altitude in the lunar sky did it appear?”
It thought for 2 minutes and 30 seconds, doing a bunch of calculations in Python and doing web searches for historical data, before finally telling me it was Apollo 17’s site, with Earth 45 degrees above the Lunar horizon.
After all that, I suspect I might have a major framing problem to show stuff on the ground that clearly identifies it as an Apollo landing site AND Earth at that historically accurate altitude in the sky.
If you project the woman’s gaze carefully, you’ll notice she’s looking at either your house or mine. She’s pining for Florida in any case. Much more swimsuit-compatible than is Pluto.
Actually, I think she’s casing our joints. She’s got that “Florida burglar from space” look in her eyes. We better lock the doors, hide the snacks, and turn on the Ring cams. Besides, what you don’t see—just out of frame—is her heated jacuzzi, and a solar-powered blender. She doesn’t need Florida weather, she brings the party to Pluto.
The magic 8-ball in the sky told her so.
Sure that’s not young Bill Gates?
Saw a prompt that made a fun image. I see that it included “Santa Claus and his reins sitting alone”, I figure the writer wanted Santa’s reindeer with him, not his sleigh tack. I modify the prompt to include Rudolph, it includes a realistic deer. I tell it to change the deer to Will Ferrell, Copilot says that can’t make Will Ferrell and immediately makes Will Ferrell. I ask it who is sitting by Santa and it tells me that since it can’t make Will Ferrell it must not be Will Ferrell.
Gotta wonder how much of things like this is actual flaws in the censorship and how much is plausible deniability about rules that really aren’t too thrilled with having in the first place.
I just thought about one of the oldest tests (and oldest disappointments) I tried with AI: images of lettered olives. I tried it with ChatGTP just now and it didn’t get the color pattern right but at least it understands what I’m looking for. The older AIs make generic seashells (or seashell-ish things) and the other more “sophisticated” AIs make freaking olives (the fruit) with freaking letters on them.
Summary
Photo of lettered olives lying in shell debris in wet beach sand (with some residual foam from a passing wave).
Unfortunately for our intrepid bathing space explorer, she missed the fine print in the Pluto Visitor’s Guide: “Warning – Plutonian cats may spontaneously transform into 20-foot arachnid death machines.” She had no idea that what looked like a fluffy kitty was actually just the larval stage of a horrifying metamorphosis. On Pluto, cats don’t have nine lives—they eat yours after turning into eight-legged nightmare fuel.