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by nicklovescode 1529 days ago
Yeah that’s right. There were very few strictly-bad ones across the entire thread of generations

The rejections were most commonly

1. Kind of just slightly boring or literally drawing the thing rather than being cool and artistic

2. Cool but similar to the artistic style of bios near it in the thread, whereas I wanted to keep it diverse (surreal followed by literal, oil followed by sharp lines etc) so it's more fun to scroll through

Whereas a few years ago generative models (GANs etc) would often render like static noise sometimes or completely wrong things. I've only seen that problem once with DALL-E across hundreds or thousands of images now (it generated a fully white image)

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> 2. Cool but similar to the artistic style of bios near it in the thread, whereas I wanted to keep it diverse (surreal followed by literal, oil followed by sharp lines etc) so it's more fun to scroll through

Has anyone compiled a list of the styles and artists Dall-E "knows"? How niche does it get? Decorative Initial Caps? Florid Victorian Ornaments? Googie Architecture? SFF artists like Michael Whelan, Vincent Di Fate, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, or Jim Burns? Banksy? Sculptors like Bathsheba Grossman or Markus Pierson? Early animation artists like Ub Iwerks or E. C. Segar?

I was experimenting with one of the VQGAN+Clip notebooks a while ago, and it did pretty well with some styles, but not so much with "Heroic Realism" or "Soviet Propaganda Poster" or "Sheppard Fairey", and even worse when I was trying to get it to draw in that style an object that could be construed as implying a style itself like "retro robot" or "50s raygun" (eg. "A retro robot drawn in a heroic realism style" or "A cubist painting of a steampunk pistol"). Is that kind of dissonance a problem for Dall-E?

Can you ask DALL-E to draw itself?
Yes, and it sees itself as a really cute little demon: https://mobile.twitter.com/gdb/status/1512521912064229377
Somehow this makes me feel a bit more at ease about this whole thing.
Maybe that's how they want you to feel.
Is that like asking GitHub’s code autocomplete to write a code autocompleter?
Asking Copilot to write Copilot. Hmmmmmm…
That's very cool but once you have stable image output how do you define good image output when it comes to art?

The stuff on deviantart is pretty good too and neatly tagged and classified by art style.

I’d often send like six images to the person who’s bio I was making and ask them to choose two :)
For better results send three, two being static noise :)