dall-e2 - AI Weirdness

Emoji include some kind of baby seal-horse and a sun-lion-eagle griffin.

The emoji of the future

By Janelle Shane On June 17, 2023 - 2 min read

Some of the recent image-generating models have this thing where they can fill in the blank parts of images. It's handy when you want to show them exactly how to give you more of the same. Like these animal emoji. See if you can tell which ones I

Three advent calendars with illegible numbers and inscrutable illustrations

AI Advent Calendar 2022

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2022 - 3 min read

Please enjoy this advent calendar, generated and illustrated with the help of three machine learning models (GPT-3, DALL-E, and Midjourney) Full door descriptions 1. Eggnog as far as the eye could see 2. The fantastical lion of Mor-Bollox 3. Saturated Red Turkeys. 4. Blue reindeer (they're bouncing) 5.

Three cats in costumes wtih long thin fabric spikes of various lengths and thicknesses.

AI imagines my cat in costumes

By Janelle Shane On October 28, 2022 - 4 min read

I don't dress my cat in costumes because, without even trying, I know she would hate that. But now I can use text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 to imagine what she would look like in costumes. After all, even if it never saw my cat in a robot costume

AI generated halloween candy

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2022 - 2 min read

One of the things I'm enjoying about text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 is how it has stuff about common brands in its training data, but it still manages to completely garble them [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-versus-your-corporate-logo/]. Please enjoy these DALL-E2 attempts at Halloween candy favorites. Prompt: "Product

AI recreates classic cereals

By Janelle Shane On August 12, 2022 - 2 min read

DALL-E 2 is very good at generating images to match text descriptions but I felt like using DALL-E 2 to mess up some brands. Here's breakfast cereals! "A box of lucky charms cereal on a grocery store shelf""A box of Froot Loops on a

A collection of mostly chipmunks, one acorn, and two lumpy froglike things

How to disappear a platypus

By Janelle Shane On August 04, 2022 - 3 min read

I was testing DALL-E 2 to see if it would be subject to some common incorrect assumptions about the sizes of things. For example if you asked people what size a kiwi bird is, they tend to assume it's a smallish bird, maybe around the size of a

Three guinea pig horse toys, stocky with guinea pig faces and guinea pig markings.

New AI-generated horsies

By Janelle Shane On July 22, 2022 - 2 min read

Recently I've been experimenting with DALL-E 2, one of the models that uses CLIP to generate images from my text descriptions. It was trained on internet text and images, so there's a lot it can do, and a lot of ways it can remix the stuff

The Kitten Effect

By Janelle Shane On July 15, 2022 - 3 min read

One thing I've noticed with image-generating algorithms is that the more of something they have to put in an image, the worse it is. I first noticed this with the kitten-generating variant of StyleGAN, which often does okay on one cat: alternative for shocked_pikachu.pngbut is terrible

Teacups with mostly nonsensical messages written in, or sometimes on, the leaves.

Reading tea leaves

By Janelle Shane On July 01, 2022 - 5 min read

DALL-E (and other text-to-image generators) will often add text to their images even when you don't ask for any. Ask for a picture of a Halifax Pier [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-terror-of-the-sea/] and it could end up covered in messy writing, variously legible versions of "Halifax"

AI versus corporate logos

By Janelle Shane On June 03, 2022 - 3 min read

I recently started playing with DALL-E 2, which will attempt to generate an image to go with whatever text prompt you give it. Like its predecessor DALL-E, it uses CLIP, which OpenAI trained on a huge collection of internet images and nearby text. I've experimented with a few

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The emoji of the future

AI Advent Calendar 2022

AI imagines my cat in costumes

AI generated halloween candy

AI recreates classic cereals

How to disappear a platypus

New AI-generated horsies

The Kitten Effect

Reading tea leaves

AI versus corporate logos

Writing

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