AI image generation is getting crazy good

One minor astronomical peculiarity in that image is that the meteors are on parallel trajectories; not impossible, but it is more likely that they would both issue from a single radiant.

I mean, depending on the projection in the photograph, they might be from a single radiant.

A little late in the year for it, but I thought of this:

Create a photo of a pile of Valentine’s hearts candy with really weird phrases.

ChatGPT

Copilot

Gemini

Several disjoint thought paragraphs not forming an essay …

ChatGPT doesn’t seem to understand that all sequences of letters are not English words. And maybe aren’t words in any language it’s read that uses the Latin alphabet. Major fail there.

Interesting that ChatGPT generated “Send cock” and also sorta Cryllic-looking non-letters. Two other sorts of filter fails.


Copilot was willing to generate poop & fart jokes but stopped there.


Gemini didn’t seem to get that verb phrases are better than noun phrases.


I wonder what, if anything, these observations say about what the respective AI systems know of @Darren_Garrison’s history with them.

I feel odllly moist just thinking about it.

The recent ChatGPT model I use most, 5.3-instant has been occasionally sticking odd non-english words in non-Latin scripts into its text outputs lately, usually arabic, occasionally cryllic. Other people have been noting it in the OpenAI discord.

The only thing worse than those candy hearts is moist candy hearts. Sooo sticky & melty. :wink:

There’s certainly no inherent a priori reason for any AI to “understand” distinct human languages or alphabets.

But if somebody early in the learning phase forgot to filter training data on language+alphabet, that might be an expen$ive mistake to overcome later.

Well, I mean, they’re supposed to be odd. Are they more odd for being the right grammatical structure but wrong content, or for being the wrong grammatical structure and content? And for that matter, one could argue that the malformed letters are even more odd yet.

It seems like there’s a sort of “oddness uncanny valley”, here, where the ones that are almost right are considered the most odd. But that’s an awfully subtle nuance for a mind to appreciate, especially a nonhuman mind.

Good point I hadn’t noticed. Thanks.

IMO the ideal would be almost right; off kilter in unexpected ways. But you’re surely right that’s a tall order for the humor-challenged current-issue bots

I changed the prompt slightly.

Create a photo of a pile of Valentine’s hearts candy with really weird statements.

Here’s Gemini

Moist lizards and unseen spores surely make for a nervous Valentines. Maybe use 2 condoms? :zany_face:

More seriously…

  • Thanks for the retry.

  • it’s clear the output of any query depends critically on the precise wording of the input. The average nearly illiterate prompt-typer-inner stands essentially no chance of asking the question they hope to ask. We are all soooo doomed.

Create a photo of a pile of Valentine’s hearts candy with really weird requests.

Create a photo of a pile of Valentine’s hearts candy with really weird romantic requests.

Create an image of a netflix menu of totally unhinged streaming series.

ChatGPT

Copilot

Gemini

I’m finally getting around to participating in this thread. I was sort of uninterested in AI image generation before but discovering midjourney completely changed my mind. It’s so much easier and more fun to use than any of the other generators I’ve tried.

Anyway, I was goofing around with vague concepts. I asked it to generate “a stereotypical American” and the very first series of results struck absolute gold.

It’s Florida Man himself.

The best part? I didn’t try to give it a style. It decided on its own that Florida Man would best and most honestly be portrayed as an image printed on a coaster. You’re supposed to set your beer down on Florida Man, as Florida Man would demand you to do.

I showed these images to copilot (yes, I talk to AI about other AI. it’s both insane and useful. it’s helping me learn how to use midjourney) and Copilot said that Florida Man put on his best vest for this photo shoot - the one he wears to court dates and Daytona Bike Week.

I love Florida Man so very much. I suspect he will be a recurring character for me.

He looks kind of like a 1980s wrestler.

You’re right. I actually had the same thought - as he was drawing (midjourney will sort of show you the process as it happens) I thought “is that Macho Man randy savage?”

But you know, that fits. The archetypical Florida man would probably BE a 1980s wrestler, or grew up inspired by that aesthetic from when he loved it as a child.

Imagined as a 1980s wrestler:

I forgot to tell it to change the coaster-print style, but you know what, it works.

I’ve met real Florida Men.

That dude (the original version, not the wrestler) is far too buff. And not nearly slack-jawed enough. I also wonder about the ornate effete surroundings. Real FM would never have a chair or side table or bric a brac like that. Is he visiting his grandmother?

Quibbles aside, that truly is some amazing AI work. The pace of progress with these things (and its acceleration) does make me think just a bit of Kurzweil’s “singularity”. Good thing collective humanity is in one of its better moods just now so we’ll handle all this as wisely as possible. [/sarcasm]

And depending on how much @SenorBeef likes his current avatar, a crop of this dude might be a good upgrade.

So, both ChatGPT and Copilot stat with Grandma on a Rampage. And Copilot has the axe-wielding nuns showing up both in their own series and in Time Traveling Babysitter, except that the one that clearly involves time travel and babysitting isn’t the one with that title (maybe one of those is a spinoff of the other? But it’d still make more sense the other way around.

ChatGPT’s image sensor categorically refused to let an unhinged Disney+ menu complete. Sometimes it got as far as drawing a tiny bit at the top, but I bet it was the little Mickey Mouse logo it wanted to insert up there that was triggering its copyright cop.