AI image generation is getting crazy good

Even ChatGPT is afraid of Disney’s lawyers!

Yep. ChatGPT’s censor won’t even allow the parts of Disney that have fallen into the public domain.

Closest I could get copilot to get.

Some pieces of the recent Ohio meteorite fell on land belonging to Morton Salt. I uploaded the logo to Gemini and simply told it to replace the rain with small meteorites. Got this with the first try.

You’re right. He’s not like, the perfect example of the average Florida man. He’s like.. the aspirational, platonic ideal of a Florida Man. What every Florida Man could be if they they were the best versions of themselves as they would see it. I may or may not have created a whole Florida Man cinematic universe. I showed Claude an image and asked him to write a biography and his name is Buck Dale Malone Jr and he was born at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in 1981. His backstory ended up going pretty deep and kind of hilarious.


Here’s a Polynesian fire dancer like the sort of guys I saw in Hawaii. I absolutely love this character. I want to preserve him and iterate on him to a degree. I think I need to learn how Midjourney’s “omni reference” system works.

I’m sure you guys are generally aware of this but you get the best, most detailed, most realistic (if you’re going for realism) images where there’s a lot of training data (lots of real world pictures), the elements you want in the pictures are salient in the training data, and it’s all sort of congruent. So replicating beautiful real world scenes is trivial and absurdly high quality. So any images that have plausible people in plausible situations work great. Any realistic landscape works great.

So you can easily crank out a million versions of something like this. But it’s still really beautiful.

This one was actually inspired by a real shot I took in Hawaii - you can feed external images into midjourney like real photographs and use it as an image (preserve composition) or style prompt. The real/external image serves as a sort of inspiration for creation.

I also adore my little cheesecake kittens.

I sort of stumbled onto one through a vague exploration prompt and loved it so much I made a whole series of them like they were collectible figurines.

Look at how adorably they animate

They need to let the poor thing blink sometimes.

It’s a quirk of nature that cheesecake kittens are born with no eyelids. They don’t let that hold them back.

You’re right - actually, that’s a little unusual. Here’s a different take on a cheesecake kitten that blinks plenty.

It looks kind of like those eyes are button-eyes, like on a stuffed animal. From a few angles, you can see an edge.

Yeah - the prompt I used to create them made them more like little plushy figurines than actual animals. But the animation system is versatile, so it renders them like a toy that came alive. The animation I posted here looks a bit like a toy kitten animated in a pixar style.

Perhaps the world is now ready for moving mewing seemingly live bonsai kittens? :smiling_face_with_horns:

The world sure wasn’t ready 25 years ago for the still pic version and somebody nearly got lynched over it:

I’m reminded of the genetically-engineered kitten tree, in one of the Vorkosigan novels…