We’ve been playing a lot in Dream Machine, lately…
… Dream Machine can be spectacularly uneven (not unlike Mj or Night Cafe, of course…) especially when you use only written prompts, but if you can give it a really good visual prompt (we use images we create in the other two platforms)…
… it can create really gorgeous images…
… like these (: If you asked it (as we have done) to create a pretty, heavily inked Asian woman, in words, you would get images of very ugly Asian woman with a smattering of cheap tattoos (believe us, that’s what we got!)… so we detect an inbuilt bias against beautiful Asians, because it simply can’t grasp that an Asian woman can be beautiful…
… but if you provide it with a prompt image of an actually gorgeous Asian girl, with great ink, it’s away laughing! Dream Machine has a different approach to evolving your images than Mj or Night Cafe have… if left to it’s own devices, it will vaguely change the iterations, but you can also select an image and tell it, in text, how you want to evolve that image. For instance, we originally created this image in Night Cafe, which doesn’t do very good tattoos, and the first few images had floral tattoos, so we asked it to give her ‘mythical beast’ tattoos, and we got these fabulous images…
… but, like all AI, Dream Machine either confabulates, or flat-out lies! We’ve asked it to zoom out from a portrait to a full-body shot, and it’s given us a new set of images and said ‘as you asked, I’ve zoomed out so you can see her full body’ (only it says it in very ‘arty’ terms)… and all the new images are still portrait images!
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