[codeflo]

I mean, everything is easy to predict in retrospect. :) Personally, I’m a bit surprised that it has learned any connection between the letters in the generated image and the prompt text at all. I had assumed (somewhat falsely it seems) that the gibberish means that the generator just thinks of text as a “pretty pattern” that it fills in without meaning. For example, a recent post on HN suggested that it likes the word “Bay”, simply because that appears so often on maps.

[PebblesRox]

Yes, specifically a prompt about Thomas Bayes generated the caption "Bay of Tayees" and the theory was that "Bayes" got corrupted to "Bay of" because of maps.

I agree that this shows a focus on the appearance of the words rather than their meaning.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-asking-robo...

[rob74]

In the spirit of that article, I wonder what DALL-E would spit out if you ask for "GilaWhamm" - probably images of scary medieval-looking men wielding scary medieval cutting weapons?

[actionfromafar]

I like how psychology (or at least behavioural studies) is edging closer to being relevant in computer science.