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0 pointsfifilura3y ago0 comments

For me, what was interesting to see was that it didn't manage very well with the Abbey Road question.

I had imagined that some parts of the training data would consist of the actual image, and it would find a good match for it somewhere deep into it's artificial consciousness.

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TheOtherHobbes3y ago

It has no concept of The Beatles or Abbey Road or zebra crossings or perspective or creative composition in photography, so effectively it just mashes up some results from an image search.

If it created something very close to the original it would be overfitting. So it flails around rather randomly in photos-of-Beatles+Zebra+Abbey Road space. The results are novel, but they're also monstrous, distorted, and unartistic.

robocat3y ago

> unartistic

Says who? Maybe you don’t like the style, maybe it is derivative, but it is definitely artistic, as you allude to by saying it is novel. Monstrous and distorted can be a style.

“mathematical art, 1924, litography, abstract generative art” generates https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanUkREXEAEH6su.jpg — Can you pick the influences? I can’t.

"low poly game asset, Cthulhu monster, 2000 video game, isometric view" generates https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanTf3IXgAETece.jpg

I thought https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanNq6sXkAENyU5.jpg was really interesting, because the LEGO logo is not a 100% faithful reproduction even though the LEGO logo is so ubiquitous - showing that the images are generated.

From a longer tweet thread by @fabianstelzer comparing DALL-E 2 vs Midjourney vs StableDiffusion: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1561019187451011074.html

DonaldFisk3y ago

Maybe it would have done better if the prompt had been "Four men - George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon - striding across a zebra crossing situated on Abbey Road, outside EMI studios in London."

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