Here is another that triggered the Raucous Buzzer of Disapprobation from DALL-E 2. The prompt was:
things I see fleetingly in peripheral vision after cataract removal that I did not see before, color cover from Philip K. Dick novel, 1960s
Here is how DALL-E 2 responded.
As usual, DALL-E mini had no problem with this prompt, but the results were not what I was looking for (or seeing).
Don’t ask why I asked this.
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gms
22 July 2022 20:14
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I won’t ask if you like Philip K. Dick novels.
“wheat field with flattened grain forming a QR code pattern, color aerial photograph”
This wasn’t what I was looking for. The intent was an illustration for a science fiction story in which a language researcher is using machine learning to try to figure out enigmatic crop circle-like patterns in fields of grain that resemble QR codes. The universal translator finally cracks the code and they’re found to say “Tastes like chicken.”
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“wolf politicians debating in front of an audience of sheep, pen and ink Far Side cartoon style”
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“bipedal rats with numbers on their chests crossing a marathon finish line, pen and ink cartoon”
Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.
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magus
26 July 2022 21:07
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I was granted access to the DALL-E 2 beta today and I’m having a lot of fun with it. This is a wonderful technology. It’s just a shame that the tokens are so expensive.
Here is one of my first prompts: “a goldendoodle outfitted in military gear, 3d render”
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magus
26 July 2022 21:26
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Inspired by a recent Ben Garrison cartoon :
“lab grown meat with a side of crickets on white plate”
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magus
28 July 2022 15:19
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“person in a drab room peering at paradise through virtual reality goggles, digital art”
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magus
31 July 2022 14:45
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“transmission and reattaching of the soul during teleportation”
“separation, transmission, and reattachment of the soul during teleportation, digital art”
Edit: In the above picture, it looks like there is a ringworld horizon through the portal.
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By Twitter user Weird Dall-E Mini Generations @weirddalle :
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Randall Munroe , creator of xkcd , asked DALL-E 2 to render Pokémon cards from different historical eras, from 2001:
through the 1400s:
to the Neolithic:
and back to the Big Bang.
These have been collected together into a long Twitter thread, “Pokémon cards through the ages ”. Enjoy!
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“Giant rat in Smart Car dragster, color cartoon in Big Daddy Roth 1960s style”
DALL-E 2 didn’t pick up on the Smart car suggestion, but it did a fine job of emulating the style of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth .
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CTLaw
1 August 2022 23:11
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Change “Car” to “fortwo”.
“Giant rat in Smart Fortwo dragster, color cartoon in Big Daddy Roth 1960s style”
That helped—top right and bottom left are closer to what I had in mind, but neither immediately say “Smart”. The rats, however, are just fine.
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CTLaw
1 August 2022 23:39
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It seems to have a bias toward putting the steering wheel on the right of the car even greater than the bias toward putting the rat on the right.
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“Bank of Venus traveler’s check, 100 Froon denomination, showing the cloudy planet from space, engraved color banknote”
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“Family of four flying upward through the clouds in their atomic space car, Popular Science color cover, 1950s”
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