Free The Glutens! It's one of my favorite phrases to yell out at inopportune moments. It is not something that AI excels at turning into 1930s Soviet propaganda posters however. Recently I subscribed to MidJourney and in the span of three days managed to use up about 60% of my month's worth of computer time.
That's not MidJourney's fault, I haven't picked up my camera in days, been playing with the AI instead. Along the way I've made some things I like, some things I find interesting, and some things that my lack of familiarity with the instructions does not suffice to explain. Like Lord of the Rings Arnie. I didn't do that one but the what and why of it so escaped me that I had to upscale it.
I'm a firm believer in the fuck up til you figure it out method of learning and have approached AI art with that ethos. So far it's working great.
So the one above was supposed to be the Hollywood sign on fire. Think this falls into the 'close only counts in hand grenades and tactical nukes' category. It's like it understands the shapes of letters but doesn't quite grasp their relationship to one another.
Maybe it's not just letters... Spent a good bit of time trying to get the perfect cigarette smoking Santa but never quite got there.
Been experimenting with giving it random phrases or series of words just to see what it spits out. Some work better than others, with "missile toes" being the most spectacular example of not working. Just don't tell it anything naughty, like 'squirrel doing cocaine,' because apparently cocaine is banned in AI land too.
Sometimes you just gotta go full word salad. I've seen other people get some amazing results but mine have mostly been in the WTF category. Explanations for the one above would be greatly appreciated.
Space monkeys for Jesus! Seems like everybody is posting their best AI art these days but what I really want to see is the 'something went wrong' stuff.
Anybody else had AI art go awry?