# Digital art creator algorithm website **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** arts-crafts, ai\ **Created:** [April 1, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081 "2022-04-01T01:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 84
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1663 "2023-10-19T23:03:27Z")
A few days ago and I couldn’t have made this: > **[Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/create/terrifying-smiling-snail-human-hybrid-relaxing-on-/6531b54a28914ed59680b29f99289ff9?id=4ADGGUCl0SqymHmbpOfc3A%3d%3d&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&FORM=GCRIDP&mode=overlay)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1664 "2023-10-19T23:12:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > They appear to be dialing back on the censorship at least a little. Yes, you’re right: “the Founding Fathers on a runaway train with Frank Zappa tied to the railroad tracks” [![](https://i.imgur.com/I0CfKeM.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/I0CfKeM.png) ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1665 "2023-10-19T23:19:25Z")
“[Batman comic with the Joker telling Batman that Frank Zappa is his father](https://www.bing.com/images/create/batman-comic-with-the-joker-telling-batman-that-fr/6531b8263a1443f0b2ad2e1065e9d789?FORM=GENCRE)” [![](https://i.imgur.com/9nELFZv.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/9nELFZv.png) ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1666 "2023-10-19T23:44:41Z")
[“sepia-toned photograph from the 19th century of some desert villagers and slender man”](https://www.bing.com/images/create/sepia-toned-photograph-from-the-19th-century-of-so/6531be6bd04a49298a4c683568e8b2ad?FORM=GENCRE) [![](https://i.imgur.com/OwgVu2Y.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/OwgVu2Y.png) [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.IiGv3ruZuKeZj7eB1UDp?pid=ImgGn) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.IiGv3ruZuKeZj7eB1UDp?pid=ImgGn) [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.H4KS5TNFvre2nhs1Kq70?pid=ImgGn) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.H4KS5TNFvre2nhs1Kq70?pid=ImgGn) [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.yiLpDciBqvrzCglaetGJ?pid=ImgGn) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.yiLpDciBqvrzCglaetGJ?pid=ImgGn) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1667 "2023-10-19T23:51:25Z")
Hey, that looks like Kandahar in 1923! ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1668 "2023-10-20T00:02:49Z")
The figures in the back of a couple of these images are genuinely quite creepy. Of course, the images are rather unrealistic as the desert sun would cause Dracula to turn to dust. “[sepia-toned photograph from the 19th century of some desert villagers and Count Dracula](https://www.bing.com/images/create/sepia-toned-photograph-from-the-19th-century-of-so/6531c0df199f42209845ddbf0a89e3d4?FORM=GUH2CR)” [![](https://i.imgur.com/UWOZ4L3.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/UWOZ4L3.png) [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.jAcEasBRdJ39WqeGlxJb?pid=ImgGn) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.jAcEasBRdJ39WqeGlxJb?pid=ImgGn) [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.4d3qEW_FmlxbENJohTTp?pid=ImgGn) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.4d3qEW_FmlxbENJohTTp?pid=ImgGn) [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.ApXT9TDxpkBUrSqOFF.F?pid=ImgGn) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.ApXT9TDxpkBUrSqOFF.F?pid=ImgGn) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1669 "2023-10-21T09:09:18Z")
Midjourney adds a 4x superresolution upscaler option, _Forbes_ writer thinks they invented it instead of playing followup. > **[Midjourney Releases Huge New AI Art Feature](https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2023/10/20/midjourney-releases-huge-new-ai-art-feature/amp/)** > > Midjourney massively increases the resolution of its AI-generated images, with the option to upscale images to 4K “Midjourney has solved one of the biggest problems with generative AI art with the option to upscale images to super-high resolutions.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1670 "2023-10-21T10:27:24Z")
When it isn’t censoring something, Dall-E 3 can really blow my mind. “Terrifying smiling human chupacabra pangolin hybrid with disheveled hair sitting in a recliner holding a remote control and a milkshake, by junji ito and mark ryden, birdseye view” The best of four images for SD15, SDXL, and DE3 [![](https://i.postimg.cc/vmb2826W/terrifying-smiling-human-chupacabra-pangolin-hybrid-grid.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/vmb2826W/terrifying-smiling-human-chupacabra-pangolin-hybrid-grid.jpg) Here are two DE3 where the milkshake is replaced with a bag of chips. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/HxShh0nb/chips-grid.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/HxShh0nb/chips-grid.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1671 "2023-10-21T12:31:46Z")
Bing AI art prompt information being sold to advertisers? When watching Youtube, I got an advert that had someone with long curly hair, a goatee and mustache. At the end of the advert - I wasn’t really paying attention to it - it said “Frank Zappa” in a French accent. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1672 "2023-10-21T12:49:59Z")
Interesting, but it hasn’t quite fulfilled the narrative in the prompt: [“Batman comic with Batman being chased by an angry bear while the Joker sits on a sun lounger laughing maniacally while eating an ice cream sundae”](https://www.bing.com/images/create/batman-comic-with-batman-being-chased-by-an-angry-/6533c722c7b242968e3529a53f9d6527?FORM=GENCRE) [![](https://i.imgur.com/I2n4p2b.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/I2n4p2b.png) For some reason, Julius Caesar and Napoleon playing chess is still forbidden. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1673 "2023-10-21T17:39:55Z")
why is half of the AI “art” always giving me the willies??? is that morbid prompts or morbid AI? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1674 "2023-10-21T17:56:00Z")
For me, at least, the creepy stuff is more fun. And it is a holdout from the ancient days of a year ago when AI had no hopes of making something normal/realistic that looks normal/realistic, so I made things where weird results would fit in. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1675 "2023-10-21T17:56:28Z")
Darren\_Garrison has posted the most results in here and tends to prefer weirder/horror based prompts. Asking for “a kid’s swingset on a bright spring day” likely won’t give you any heebie-jeebie inducing results. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1676 "2023-10-21T18:00:39Z")
Uncanny valley: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg/330px-Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg/330px-Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg.png) > **[Uncanny valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley)** > > In aesthetics, the uncanny valley (Japanese: 不気味の谷, Hepburn: bukimi no tani) is a hypothesized relation between an object's degree of resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object. The concept suggests that humanoid objects that imperfectly resemble actual human beings provoke uncanny or strangely familiar feelings of uneasiness and revulsion in observers. "Valley" denotes a dip in the human observer's affinity for the replica—a valence that otherwise increases with the ... ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1677 "2023-10-21T18:04:25Z")
Also possible. I assumed that the willies were coming from the man-snails and face-hands, not from the Beatles riding a bus or from Joan of Arc on a Vespa. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1678 "2023-10-21T18:09:53Z")
Some of the background human figures in the sepia-toned photographs are the creepiest things I’ve seen the AI produce. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1679 "2023-10-21T18:26:15Z")
Oh. My. God. I think these are the creepiest images I’ve commissioned so far… 😱 They’re so creepy, the stuff of nightmares, that I’ve hidden them. DO NOT LOOK if you are eating soon or want to sleep tonight! “[sepia-toned photograph from the 19th century of Count Dracula feeding off some villagers in Transylvania](https://www.bing.com/images/create/sepia-toned-photograph-from-the-19th-century-of-co/653414f48aed4deab3d7f93e28ffa20a?FORM=GENCRE)” > **** > > [https://i.imgur.com/q807imt.png](https://i.imgur.com/q807imt.png) > > [https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.LNTulCyOzLDa.JYVWdOx?pid=ImgGn](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.LNTulCyOzLDa.JYVWdOx?pid=ImgGn) > > [https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.fP5EJcMqYbxWEaWjLI8Z?pid=ImgGn](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.fP5EJcMqYbxWEaWjLI8Z?pid=ImgGn) > > [https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.jU6At6RGktLaW1yXv0.A?pid=ImgGn](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.jU6At6RGktLaW1yXv0.A?pid=ImgGn) > > [https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.wrULNUXpt4Fp64BJJKuT?pid=ImgGn](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.wrULNUXpt4Fp64BJJKuT?pid=ImgGn) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1680 "2023-10-21T18:34:02Z")
That’s nice. Dracula feeding the hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1681 "2023-10-22T01:42:04Z")
This guy used a webcam and monitor on a computer running Stable Diffusion to make a “mirror” that shows creepy images. (Sadly it isn’t fast enough to do full video in realtime.) [https://tim.cexx.org/?p=1628](https://tim.cexx.org/?p=1628) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081/1682 "2023-10-22T02:57:57Z")
Was playing around a bit with Bing and feeding it some old Midjourney prompts (but still from this latest version of MJ). Was interesting to see how it interpreted the prompts. It was more willing to take direction, it seems, whereas MJ is more likely to add its own style on top. Both systems created images with their own charm but definitely some different results. For each set, the Midjourney result is first, the Bing result second. _Lenticular photograph of a woman in a flowering garden, Forced depth perception, Aerochrome image, 8k UHD, saturated colors, separated colors, separate layers of depth of field, by Miles Aldridge and Mary Quant and Franco Fontana_ [![](https://i.imgur.com/Kd94sNW.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Kd94sNW.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/OY61N0q.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/OY61N0q.jpg) _Pastel watercolor and inkwash illustration, playful loose painting style, colored croquois pencil lines, confused retro housewife on floor with disassembled vacuum cleaner, parts everywhere, confused expression, flirty caricature art, playful daring lines, beautiful soft tones, subtle colors, by Gil Elvgren, Harrison Fisher, Thomas Rowlandson, Bernie Fuchs, Howard Chandler Christy_ [![](https://i.imgur.com/OcRhJbE.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/OcRhJbE.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/5zwwv8K.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/5zwwv8K.jpg) _Pastel watercolor and inkwash illustration, playful loose painting style, colored croquois pencil lines, beautiful librarian, pencil skirt, flirty caricature art, playful daring lines, beautiful soft tones, subtle colors, by Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Jules Feiffer, Roberto Matta, Marie Laurencin, Mort Walker_ [![](https://i.imgur.com/4gYQ9Hb.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/4gYQ9Hb.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/I9h3mMc.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/I9h3mMc.jpg) _A retro computer with a snowglobe-shaped spherical display screen filled with color, by Dieter Rams and Dan Flavin and Larry Bell_ [![](https://i.imgur.com/EOsC1tX.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/EOsC1tX.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/kCv0uae.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/kCv0uae.jpg) There were also prompts that Bing totally dropped the ball on, that I won’t bother posting for space: Retro-Pulp cover art, LoFi girl as a Gibson Girl, 1980s McDonalds cashier by Deborah Azzopardi & Grégoire Guillemin, etc. Not saying that Bing couldn’t ever make a good image out of those but the results didn’t match the prompt well and/or were inferior to the MJ results. For all that, the latest updates from Bing and SDXL should put Midjourney on notice. Probably won’t though; v6 has been promised for months now and they haven’t really hyped it as any big advance over v5 (Oh, and I did try that first Bing image with some anaglyph red/blue glasses and it kinda… sorta… worked?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081.md?page=83) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-art-creator-algorithm-website/962081.md?page=85)