I continue having way too muchy fun making images with MidJourney (and NightCafe, and now some things that I can’t quite show off yet).
I’m realizing that I’m a little weird, in that most people seem to be interested in just how exactly they can get the tool to produce an image that they’re thinking of, whereas I am almost entirely into typing somewhat random ambiguous stuff, and seeing what fun things the AI responds with.
For instance, here’s a snapshot of a whole bunch of images made using the prompt “one inside of another” with various seeds and switches and engine flows and things:
I love all of these (there were some I didn’t love, and I didn’t upscale those, so they aren’t here). The first two got me:
It seemed like there was really something going on there.
These two are with a slightly different engine flow than most of the others, but are no less wonderful:
What’s going on here? Is the AI showing wild creativity? Is it just starting in a basically random place due to the vague prompt, and then drifting into some weird random local minimum from there? Is that different from showing wild creativity?
Clearly there are lots of pictures of faces (especially women’s faces) and rooms with windows in the training set, so we get lots of those, that makes sense. But why do we get two different images that are (inter alia) the face of a person holding (and/or confronting) some semi-abstract sharp object? Why are there two faces which are split in half vertically, and one half striped / pixelated?
And what are these?
One thing is certainly inside of another. Is that a coincidence? Or is the AI “aware” of it in some sense?
I feel like I could swim in this stuff forever! That is what I thought at first about the GPT-3 stuff, though, and that wasn’t true. :) Still, if it’s just that I’m still in the initial flush of excitement, it’s a very fun flush.
Oh, and somewhat relatedly, here is a stealth announcement of a new graphic novel (or perhaps picture book) based on MidJourney images. This time I generated many many images from the same (small set of related) prompts, four at a time, and then tried to construct a story that would make sense with them. Note that this version is like 327MB for some reason, so click with care: Klara, Part 1.
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