Trying to show a cat throwing a Molotov cocktail at a car and #Midjourney says, “Um, let me set the cat on fire in the fourth one.”
Yeah. That’s NOT what I was going for…. 🙄
@feloneouscat surprised they haven't banned "molotov cocktail" and that you didn't get a rooster with a prehensile tail on fire.
@hollyjahangiri Oddly, I used “cat watching burning car” and got something close to what I wanted. LOL #Midjourney
This AI can do nice stuff, but it’s easy to throw it off with “complex” ideas.
@hollyjahangiri Well, I’m also an artist and have been more amused than anything else. No, it’s not going to put people out of business. But it’s a quick and dirty way of compositing images that can be reworked/redrawn. Also, on occasion, it amuses me by doing the opposite of what I expect!
@feloneouscat this might amuse you, then: https://hollyjahangiri.medium.com/the-ai-is-not-okay-2436980d635a
@feloneouscat what I want to know is how to quit getting mutant creatures. You know - horses with random odd numbers of legs and the occasional arm.
@hollyjahangiri LOL You’re right! It doesn’t know what a horse is! This is what #Midjourney created with “a horse standing with fluffy mane, in photorealistic style”
Alien creatures? Yes. Horses? Not quite.
@hollyjahangiri The problem is it hasn’t been taught what a “horse” is — so it grabs things that may be “sorta horses” — like asking someone to make tacos who has only seen them on TV through bad prescription eyewear. Give it enough samples of “a horse” and it will grok it.
I suspect it has plenty of cat and dog photos🤣
Fortunately, I get to see two horses twice a day (ours!)
@feloneouscat it did better with a unicorn! (Okay, so one hoof disappears on the desk and I had to edit out an extra horn or two in postprocessing, but... ) The header image here is a composite of three MJ images, and this is as close as it's ever come for me: https://hollyjahangiri.substack.com/p/challenge-accepted
@feloneouscat but yeah - normally just MJ nightmare fuel. LOL
@feloneouscat it is - and too often it just ignores what you consider to be essential objects of your intended composition. But it's fun. I hope it never replaces real artists, but as a writer who isn't a great artist, having a conversation with "the little robot in the box" (how I think of it, despite knowing "AI" is neither intelligent nor artificial) is intriguing.