Bonus: the advent calendar images that didn't work out
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I built an advent calendar by using GPT-3 to generate descriptions and Pixray to illustrate them! (Check it out!)
But some of the descriptions were too long for the calendar doors, or else Pixray seemed to really struggle with them. I've collected some of my favorites here.
And finally, a list of images I didn't attempt to have illustrated:
- A grizzly bear driving a sno-cone cart. A pile of red-and-green peppermint shavings can be seen inside the cart.
- A snowman with a packet of ketchup and a small bottle bottle of mustard (label "Guten Kraut" of "Q").
- A pile of potatoes wearing a top hat. Each potato has a number from 1 to 8 written on its side.
- A scene that appears to be a medical drama scene from a television show. The patient is a snowman, and the two surgeons appear to be a saber-toothed cat and a duck.
- A gargoyle with a porcupine sitting on its head. The porcupine is smoking a pipe.
- A pile of eggs in a bowl. The eggs are holding twigs in their hands.
- Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, fleeing from an even redder-nosed reindeer.
- A bear, swinging the moon on the end of his chain, like a giant lantern.
- A weevil wearing a top hat, carrying a cane and wearing a monocle.
- It appears the previous occupant of the house mistook a pillow for a snowball.
- A Christmas tree decorated with a green and yellow motif, and covered with rat snakes.
- The clone from Door 19, running away from a furious mob of Santas.
- The clone from Door 17, still running, and now pursued by ice-cream trucks and a potato.
I humbly submit any and all of these as prompts for researchers to use for testing image-generating algorithms. I'm way less impressed by an AI that can generate "girl eating a slice of pizza" than I would be by an AI that can generate "Santa Claus eating pancakes while riding a giant sloth".
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