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I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by twic »

codetrotter wrote: post #21
soneca wrote: post #15

Have anyone given a prompt to Dall-e of designing a company website and included “make it pop!”? Maybe the AI will finally get what designers always complained about annoying clients.

Prompt: > Create a website design for a company that sells propane and propane accessories. The name of the company is Strickland Propane, a local propane dealership. Make it pop. Results: * https://i.imgur.com/Jv7NJEN.png * https://i.imgur.com/5Uiyg1R.png * https://i.imgur.com/LL1DC11.png * https://i.imgur.com/buv5BvS.png So there you have it :p

STONIA PRONGAND! I would not buy a propane container which looked like that.

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Post by doerinrw »

nprateem wrote: post #46

An upvote for whoever can give me a prompt to generate an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly or something. I spent ages on this earlier getting nowhere. I'm starting to think DALL-E is better if you don't really know what you want and you're just fishing for ideas.

Ok you owe me $3! This is a really hard prompt, and only got close-ish with inpainting. Got the base figure with "massaged relaxed flattened person, flat, flat, flat, flat, claymation", then finally got it to add a not-too-terrifying face with "photograph of smiling white woman laying on the ground, promotional photography". Final tweaks to erase some artifacts (it really didn't want to believe the figure on the left was the referenced woman) was "photograph of a wooden floor with a white mat and small plants, overhead shot".

DALLE is hard! Curious to see if I can be beat.

https://imgur.com/a/tuyGjxp

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Post by tsimionescu »

It's interesting that the prompts that would do badly in a Google image search also seem to be the ones that make poor prompts. Basically, it seems that rather than describing a scene, you have to try to give an analogy for some image(s) that it might have in its training set - which is why, I believe, "banana in the style of Andy Warhol" produces a much higher quality result than "Outline of prism on a black background in the middle of scene splits a beam of light coming from the left side into rainbow on the right side".

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by kgeist »

Engineering-MD wrote: post #17
sgt101 wrote: post #8

Look, it's trained on these images. It's really great and cool and all - but it's retrieving things that it was trained on. Show me something original it did.

It’s hard when it was trained on everything pretty much. That’s the same problem as with GPT3. In my mind it’s still brute forcing a solution but instead of endless computation it’s endless examples

Is this "bruteforcing" really different from what our brains do? We see thousands, millions of little things (examples) every day. Then we combine what we've seen into something new. Probably the only difference is that DALLE's training was done once while our brains are trained every day for 80+ years.

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Post by alisonkisk »

tsimionescu wrote: post #74

It's interesting that the prompts that would do badly in a Google image search also seem to be the ones that make poor prompts. Basically, it seems that rather than describing a scene, you have to try to give an analogy for some image(s) that it might have in its training set - which is why, I believe, "banana in the style of Andy Warhol" produces a much higher quality result than "Outline of prism on a black backgro…

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Post by xorcist »

vanadium1st wrote: post #39
xwdv wrote: post #7

Although AI artists will destroy a lot of jobs, it will also create demand for new jobs for people who specialize in “paint overs” – taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection. Or perhaps even beyond just a paint over, and into the realm of recreating an entire AI artwork but with a human touch to get details just right. Looking forward to it.

I am already doing exactly that, and am getting paid for it. I am a logo artist and I sell pre-made logo designs. Before the current AI services I had to come up with visual ideas by myself, like a caveman. Now I use the AI to generate a bunch of sketches and blurry ideas, and then use my graphic design experience to polish them up to a usable level. Here's how it looks. https://imgur.com/a/DKTsKdC I am absolutely su…

Thank you for that perspective. The linked work is clearly the work of a skilled professional.

I am intrigued by the use of AI as a form of creativity assist. As someone without any talent for this, the left pictures are useless for me, as I don't know how to take them into something like the pictures on the right. The point of a sketch is to show them to a customer, but if you would show these sketches to me, I wouldn't know which one would turn out great and which one wouldn't.

Given that, do you feel that the generated sketches are useful as a base sketch? I mean, you could probably have used any of the existing NFL teams logos and as inspiration, instead of letting the software remix them for you.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by soneca »

codetrotter wrote: post #57
soneca wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot! Hopefully I am not asking too much, but can you run the same prompts without the “make it pop”? So we can learn what is “pop”

Dall-E 2 will give varying results even for the same prompt. If we want to learn what is "pop" we would have to ask it very many times. But I will give it a try. First I do three more runs where I give it the same prompt that I gave it initially; > Create a website design for a company that sells propane and propane accessories. The name of the company is Strickland Propane, a local propane dealership. Make it pop. R…

I agree, Dall-e doesn't seem to understand what "pop" is either. Thanks for the effort in indulging me, though! I appreciate!

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

powersnail wrote: post #35

DALL-E is still highly probabilistic in its judgement. For instance, in this article, it keeps putting "fire" in the the background on something that is likely to be on fire, rather than lighting up the person. I have a similar experience. In my own experiment, I can't get DALL-E to turn off the street lamp at a bus stop in the darkness. I've tried "no light", "broken street lamp", etc.; no use. Any mention of "stree…

The person is on fire. On top of the fire in the image.
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