AI image generation is getting crazy good

No cats-eye glasses and no single line “eyes” makes for an unconvincing Larson.

And what exactly is that cow covering with its top hoof?

Hobbes’ left arm was forcibly ripped from his body and restitched to his butt. Also, both Waldos looked to have been punched in the face, but at least one is getting some FOOD (the other is ready to buy some POOD).

Cubist style

I then told Gemini to create new cards.

Copilot was less good.

Will someone please do “Last Supper” in Tony Millionaire (Maakies) style?

Last Supper got this

The Last Supper got this

Create images of new 1980s science fiction movie bubblegum cards:

Gemini

ChatGPT

Create images of classic 1980s science fiction movie bubblegum cards

Gemini

ChatGPT

Copilot wouldn’t do it “for safety reasons”.

I’m surprised chatgpt played that fast and loose with copyrighted material. Like… that’s not even “inspired by”, that’s the real deal.

The funny part was I was trying to vague-language it into making Star Wars cards, but it made everything else.

Have you been able to repeat the feat? Both ChatGPT and Gemini are refusing them for me.

Just tried it again and ChatGPT gave me this:

We’re so sorry, but the image we created may violate our guardrails concerning similarity to third-party content. If you think we got it wrong, please retry or edit your prompt.

I tried Gemini and it gave me three images.

When I see abrupt changes in its permissiveness like that, I wonder if it’s forwarding iffy outputs to a human and they are updating its censorship rules in real time.

I reopened the old chat and just typed “make more”. It did.

The share link doesn’t seem to work right.

That link only included the first image, and not any followup ones you made.
I suspect this different behavior stems from your sessions talking to slightly different versions of ChatGPT. I used to see that kind of thing a lot more often back during the early 3.5 days. And it would frequently tell me “the model you were talking to is no longer available, now you’re on the most recent one.” All without official version number changes.

I used your share link to fork my own copy, unfortunately, I got this:

It didn’t comment on the first image. On the second one, it said

Here’s another batch with a bigger set and even more variety—leaning into that worn, sticker-stained, bubblegum-card feel.

Want me to push it further? I can do:

  • Obscure/deep-cut 80s sci-fi only
  • Fake movies that look real
  • Gross-out gum stains + checklist backs
  • Entire boxed set with wrappers and gum sticks

That’s kind of hilarious. “Can you make me some copyrighted outputs?” “Sure!” “oh those are great, can you make more?” “No way dude, that shit that we just did is unacceptable”

Awesome! Thank You!