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by zacharyvoase 528 days ago
I am heavily tattooed and I tried generating a few designs. I'm sorry to say that everything it suggested was awful, and if an artist ever showed me any of this in their flash collection I would block them on Instagram and potentially call the police.
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I asked it for "one hand stabbing another with an ornate dagger, traditional style." It got the style right-ish but everything else was terribly wrong. Daggers with multiple blades, hands with hands on them, fingers with multiple fingernails, etc.

This could be useful if it can reliably get the core requirements correct though. I can see myself generating some ideas with this and taking them to an artist as a basis for them to start with.

OP: It would probably be good to have a "these aren't even close, please try again" button which allows for a couple free retries.

but here's the thing: why spend a bunch of time trying to formulate a prompt to give to a machine to generate a bad image to bring to an artist who would then refine it, when you could just say to the artist "one hand stabbing another with an ornate dagger, traditional style" and get what you want in one shot?