Also… Bold choice to go with “Type in a prompt and we’ll get it wrong” as your waiting splash screen
Last night I experimented in creating creatures that were looking at themselves in mirrors to see how well Dall-E 3 deals with viewing the same character from more than one angle. It did a pretty good job, and seems to grasp the unique, individual character as having a front, back, and sides. It doesn’t seem like a very big leap away from something that would be able to produce 3D models.
A couple of dozen more examples:
Uncle Herman!
Attempts to make ghosts coming out of the mouth of a Jack-o’-lantern into words. A simple “boo!” works pretty well. “Happy Halloween” works often. Then I tried for sillier stuff, like “Merry Thanksgiving” and “I told you I was sick”. Then I wanted the pumpkin to yell “Satan”, but Bing dogged that request, so I tried typos, hoping DE3 would accidentally correct the spelling by getting letters swapped (which it tends to do). No lucky correction, but I did get a nice “SATNA!” that I could cut/paste correct in an image editor.
Successful images were expanded with uncrop. Interesting unsuccessful images are included in their original state.
Nah, I think this belongs in the Pit.
Today I learned that asking DE3 for dreaming of something will generate comic-style thought bubbles.
Terrifying four panel comic about woodland creatures dreaming of extraterrestrials, polychromatic, by Junji Ito.
A bored cat having a dream about something disgusting and weird.
Yoda in swamp dreaming of Yoda kissing Totoro.
A man daydreaming of a extraterrestrial breakdancing contest.
A young woman daydreaming of a Kimodo Dragon wearing a tuxedo.
Asking 3 AI apps to recreate the famous V-J Day Kiss photo with a cat and dog, I suppose Midjourney came closest, but Bing made me laugh hardest.
Midjourney:
Stable Diffusion:
Bing:
I’m kinda surprised that prompt didn’t get dogged.
My initial prompt got blocked: “An Aztec priest, using a razor-sharp obsidian blade, slices open the chest of a sacrificial victim and offers his still-beating heart to the gods”
So I had to go for: “An Aztec priest performs a ritual sacrifice to the gods”.
But there’s no human sacrifice or anything gory generated. It’s all pretty wholesome.
Heh, now I want to see “the founding fathers are Frank Zappa”.
Something seems to be wrong with my image hosting site. The image was a grid of one image each for Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, Bob’s Burgers, The Big Bang Theory, Stranger Things, and Friends. Here’s the Friends link, which includes catch phrases
And here’s Adventure Time. Among the many impressive things about Dall-E 3 is the ability to depict things in different media from the original source. In this case flat 2D art as 3D objects.
(Note that each link is to 4 images that you can scroll through.)