Thread by @interstar

Last night, I paid money to get a 100 more DallE runs. Honestly, I think if you know what you want it's pretty good value.

Particularly getting into to taking ideas generated on Craiyon and varying / improving them.

Some of these are stunning:

The cover for riverofelectrons.bandcamp.com/album/embodied… was made by Craiyon and I think it's fantastic.

But a but low-res. What can DallE do to vary it?

I think it does some pretty amazing things ...

Meanwhile, the background image I created for River of Electrons site with #craiyon ...

Gets these variants from #dalle2

Last year I was playing around gimping pictures of small synthesisers into retro radios. Crude cut'n'paste collaging.

What does DallE think of that?

Instant product design ... I mean, they are still technically flawed, but a crude idea can become a plausible, beautiful and *communicable* prototype ...

And soon, now, I have no doubt, we'll get tools (AI or not) to help massage these image fantasies from 2D back into 3D.

Of course, it's not always so impressive ...

Here was another of my collages.

And DallE ...

Meh!
Nevertheless, this is all much more exciting to me than all those "draw an astronaut eating a cheeseburger in the style of Rembrandt" type applications of #aipainting
What grabs me is what I can do to turn my own crude ideas into something more impressive...

Here's an old collage I made over 20 years ago from some magazines that were probably from the 1970s.

DallE is kinda confused (some collages it recognises as collages, but here it seems to drift into painting) ... but the images are quite striking in their own way. And in DallE grokking the original image ...

And let's take a moment to recognise that this is an AI that can count. It makes a pretty good stab at recognising there are 4 people. And a clock. And a dragonfly. And a tree.

I mean WTAF???

Here's another collage from that same period.

DallE is much better at recognising it as collage and disassembling it into constituent pieces, than trying to make sense of the whole.

This is interesting ... (a pretty astounding) 70s advert for Panasonic. With light floral decoration.

This is really fucking with #dalle2's mind.

Does it somehow have an idea of "leader"?

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