An album cover for a band called The Jackbatties, called, “The Delicate Touch.”
(pretty much no other prompts):
I wanted to see if it could write out text in rocks on a beach (the specific text wasn’t important).
The first image “got” what I was looking for pretty well. The second one is less close but in the ballpark. The rest missed the point but are still pretty impressive examples of text generation.
I’ve been playing around with variations on a prompt I saw on Facebook. I plugged the following into Bing and Ideogram:
Summary
A chalk drawing on black construction paper of an exaggerated looking John McClane from Die Hard wearing a dirty white tank top and Barney with a big head and big eyes, a skinny body and skinny legs with big feet, in a forest, bold solid colors, in the style of Zdzisław Beksiński, clear and sharp, raw.
Here is a set from Bing:
And a set from Ideogram:
As you can see, the results aren’t as good and neither is the understanding of the prompt.
Here are some more outputs from Bing. (All of these are "style of Jan Kip, like it was in the original prompt):
This is the original found prompt:
Summary
A chalk on black construction paper drawing of an exaggerated looking cat with a very long neck, big head and big eyes, a skinny body and long skinny legs with big feet, in the city at night, bold solid colors, in the style of Jan Kip, clear and sharp, raw.
Y’know, really, it shouldn’t be too hard to make an image generator that does a good job with text, if that’s the specific goal that you’re pursuing. You start by training an image generator to make images of individual letters in whatever style, and then you use a “dumb” program (i.e., not AI) to arrange those generated letters correctly, and then you use that as a starting image for another round of AI, or superimpose them on top of an otherwise AI-generated image.
On a completely different note, I’m wondering what that thing is on the altar in front of Fr. Urso. It looks almost like a book… but a book with three pages side-by-side, rather than the usual two. And then some sort of platform sitting on the middle verso, with a pewter… something… on it.
The bear is also polydactyl, but I don’t know how common that is for bears (it’s not too rare in cats, for instance).
I just tried a prompt at Ideogram, let it do “magic” to it, and one of the images generated got my first encounter with their version of the Bing eggdog.
Stable Diffusion 3 beta is available for download, apparently sucks.
Today’s challenge at NightCafe is Magazine Covers and I’m having way too much fun with Ideogram (Turbo - 3 credits a pop).
The first one is kinda cute. The second two? I’m sorry, I don’t find mariticide (spouse murder) particularly funny. Shame on you.
Shame on me? Get a grip.
Spouse murder is hilarious. Got it. I’ll let Melania know.
Nm discourse
Here’s my entry:
Biden and Trump are good, but I spent a lot of credits trying to get a better Alfred.
I created this one a while ago, It’s a better Alfred, and I think a better image overall, but I couldn’t get it to add a title.
Where’s the tooth gap?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Alfred has all his teeth, WTH?
believe me, I spent many credits saying “smile shows a missing tooth” and similar. It ignored the instructions. Any advice?
How is that not trademark infringement (generating a fake Cosmo cover)
~Max
I’ll let you know if Cosmopolitan comes after me.
You can’t infringe a trademark by just drawing something. You have to use it in “trade” - selling stuff. The existence of an image is not violating Cosmo’s right of trade using their mark that you’ve imitated. There’s no damage so no remedy.
(This gets a little subtle, but not that subtle: you can market a car or energy drink or whatever as “Cosmopolitan”, because a consumer won’t think you’re selling them the trademarked magazine. Confusing the consumer is key to violating a trademark and seeking damages or other remedy. No confusion = no damages = no case. “Cosmopolitan hamburgers” aren’t easily confused with a magazine.
The look of the logo “Cosmopolitan” is protected by intellectual property law, and could be gone after by copyright or trademark (or, hell, even design patent) law if you clone it, but all you - as the marketer of “Cosmopolitan” cars or energy drinks - need do is change the font or something equally trivial to skirt the problem. This isn’t usually that big a deal unless the trademark holder or infringing party is incredibly stupid.)
- squeegee, son of intellectual property attorney.
Wondered what folks thought if this (limited gift link provided) article? Some truly weird stuff.