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Odd little spots in Midjourney latent space

I took it into my head for some reason to see what Midjourney would do with little sub-semantic phonemes, like say “ton glam so”. When I first tried it, the results had letters (and not-quite-letters) all over the and/or were all just faces, so I added the switches “–no words, letters, text –no face” to the prompt.

I did that as two separate –no switches without thinking, but in retrospect that may have resulted in a weight of one (1) for “ton glam so”, and weights of -0.5 each for “words, letters, text” and “face”, resulting in a total weight of zero (0), which is known to do weird / fun things (I thought I had mentioned that here earlier, but apparently not).

With those switches, our initial “ton glam so” produces the rather noteworthy:

A two-by-two grid of images, each of which prominently features a blonde woman who is not young, and at upper-left not thin, all wearing rather tight glittery knee-length dresses, standing in rather awkward poses, with other people in perhaps evening clothes in the background.

Possibly the “glam” make “glamour” or even “glamor” salient in the model? But these are not, well, the images that I would have expected to be most salient under the category of “glamour”.

The same switches with the text prompt “so bel wip” produces the also, but very differently, noteworthy:

A two-by-two grid of images, all in the same basic style and colorway, a sort of soft realistic style in muted purple, brown, and green. Three of the four images show a group of two or four Black children in loose vaguely futuristic outfits. The fourth shows a streamlined and rather futuristic looking automobile sitting on a roadway.

No relationship to “so bel wip” occurs to me, but it’s certainly consistent! Wondering if this was due to some common seed or something, I tried it again, and got:

A two-by-two grid of images, all in the same basic style and colorway, a sort of soft realistic style in muted purple, brown, and green that show a group of one to four Black children in loose vaguely futuristic outfits.

which, whoa, definitely very similar. One more time for good luck?

A two-by-two grid of images, all in the same basic style and colorway, a sort of soft realistic style in muted purple, brown, and green that show a group of two to four Black children in loose vaguely futuristic outfits.

I tried adding “–chaos 70”, which does something or other, and got this:

A two-by-two grid of images, in the same style and colorway as the prior ones, but a bit more variety: upper left shows one of the black children standing, and also a close-up of her face beside her. Upper right has two children in the same clothes, but with paler skin and hair. Lower left is one of the typical children, but with somewhat pointed ears and more elaborately wavy hair. And lower right is a child like most of the others, but seen just as a single face in close-up.

The same but just a bit more variety; two kids possibly white, one with pointy ears, and so on. But the same interesting clothes and general style. Fascinatin’!

I tried another text prompt (without the –chaos) “plin bo san”, and got these delightful things:

A two-by-two grid of images of whimsical curvy vehicles in a sort of red and purple and blue fantasy-art aesthetic, with balloons. All but the lower right have a few letters at the bottom, as "PPRIIN" or "BD BIIIN". All but the upper right are on water; the upper right is among blobby clouds, and has a sort of helicopter thing going on.
A two-by-two grid of images in a sort of whimsical red and purple and blue fantasy-art aesthetic. All but the lower-left show a cute curvy vehicle on water. The lower-left shows a parrot-like bird in the same colors and aesthetic, sitting in a tree.

Does “plin bo san” make “plane” and maybe “boat” salient? Does “san” somehow specify the aesthetic? So fascinating! What if we change the aspect ratio to three wide by two high?

A two-by-two grid of images in a sort of whimsical red and purple and blue fantasy-art aesthetic. All but the lower-right show a cute curvy vehicle hovering over water or sitting on wheels on land. The lower-right shows a whale or fish or vehicle shaped like one, in the same aesthetic, with an umbrella or something atop, hovering (swimming?) over land.

OMG so delightful. I love all of these! Next, I tried “tem wo sec” and…

A two-by-two grid of photographs of strange people or creatures. All but the upper left also contain a red sportscar (the car at lower right seems to have a police light bar on top also). The creatures are, clockwise from upper left, a person who appears to be entirely bald but with a huge greenish mustache and beard and pointy ears, a large bird wearing sunglasses, a humanoid alien wearing sunglasses and naked but for a tiny thong, and a yak-like creature in a large green hat.
A two-by-two grid of photographs of strange people or creatures. All four also contain a red sportscar. The creatures are, clockwise from upper left, not actually a creature but some juicy looking green leaves (the car in this one also has green headlights like eyes), a squat alien thing with big wide ears and many fingers, a green humanoid with pointy ears and sunglasses and a bright red shirt and belt, and a sort of leafy creature with a big open mouth, claws, and no visible eyes.

I mean… what?!

Then, “lus dab ba” with –chaos 60:

A two-by-two grid of images, all showing an oddly-proportioned skinny person in too-large dark shorts and a red jacket and sunglasses, arms wide, hands making V signs, looking exaggeratedly cool and/or silly.

“mai rem den” with –chaos 70:

A two-by-two grid of images, each showing two Asian-looking people in a more or less military or uniformed aesthetic. All but the upper right show an adult holding a child, where one or both are wearing rather outrageous sunglasses in upper right, instead of a child there is a young-looking and androgynous solider standing beside the uniformed adult (neither wear sunglasses in that one).
A two-by-two grid of images, all photograph style, of one or two Asian-looking people variously in uniforms, large hats, elaborate hair, and/or crazy sunglasses.

Ahhhh what even is happening? What are all these things??

I’m stopping now because my brain is tired, and it’s challenging to write alt-text for these! But wow, eh? Whatever is going on with these things? These are all Midjourney v4, I’m pretty sure, because that’s the default at the moment and I didn’t specify. I’m guessing the total weight of zero is part of what’s causing… whatever this is.

And I kinda love it!

Posted on 2023/03/27 at 7:46 pm in ai, randomosity, tech, woot   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL

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5 Responses to “Odd little spots in Midjourney latent space”

    
  1. Karima Hoisan
    2023/03/27 at 7:52 pm

    Wow!! Crazy stuff……

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  2. menubar
    2023/03/27 at 9:52 pm

    Haha wow, great stuff! At work I use Google Image Search a lot, so when I’m bored I just mash the keyboard and see what it makes of my nonsense.

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