Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

I had the same trouble. In my experiment I wanted to generate a Porco Rosso style seaplane. illustration. Sadly none of the generated pictured had the whole of the airplane in them. The wingtips or the tail always got left off.

I found this method to be a reliable workaround: I have downloaded the image I liked the most. Used an image editing software to extend the image in the direction I wanted it to be extended and filled the new area with a solid colour. Cropped a 1024x1024 size rectangle such that it had about 40% generated image, and 60% solid colour. Uploaded the new image and asked DALL-E to infill the solid area while leaving the previously generated area unchanged. Selected from the generated extensions the one I liked the best, downloaded it and merged it with the rest of the picture. Repeated the process as required.

You need a generous amount of overlap so the network can figure out which parts is already there and how best to fit the rest. It's a good idea to look at the image segment you need to be infilled. If you as a human can't figure out what it is you are seeing, then the machine won't be able to figure it out either. It will generate something, but it will look out of context once merged.

The other trick I found: I wanted to make my picture a canvas print, and thus I needed a higher resolution image. Higher even then what I can reasonably hope with the above extension trick. What I did is that I have upscaled the image (used bigjpg.com, but there might be better solutions out there.) After that I had a big image, but of course there weren't many small scale details now on it. So I have sliced it up to 1024x1024 rectangles, uploaded the rectangles to DALL-E and asked it to keep the borders intact but redraw the interior of them. This second trick worked particularly well on an area of the picture which shown a city under the airplane. It has added nice small details like windows and doors and roofs with texture without disturbing the overall composition.

What I did:

Here is "llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan, shot from below, tilted frame, 35°, Dutch angle, extreme long shot, high detail, dramatic backlighting, epic, digital art": https://imgur.com/a/7LoAtRx

Here is "Llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan, screenshots from the Miyazaki anime movie", much worst: https://imgur.com/a/g99G7Bn

But this DALL-E thing, it's really blowing my mind. That and deep fakes, now that's sci-fi tech. It's both exciting and a bit scary.

The idea that in the not so far future one will be able to create images (and I presume later, audio and video) of basically anything with just a simple text prompt is rife with potential (both good and bad). It's going to change the way we look at art, it's also going to give incredibly powerful creative tools to the masses.

For me the endgame would be an AI sufficiently advanced that one could prompt "make an episode of Seinfeld that centers around deep fakes" and you'd get an episode virtually indistinguishable from a real one. Home-made, tailor-made entertainment. Terrifyingly amazing. See you in a few decades...

Some are impressive:

  - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uzosy1/the_rest_of_mona_lisa
  - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/vstuns/super_mario_getting_his_citizenship_at_ellis

  - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/v0pjfr/a_photograph_of_a_street_sign_that_warns_drivers
  - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wbbkbb/healthy_food_at_mcdonalds
  - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wlfpax/the_elements_of_fire_water_earth_and_air_digital

I found this to be the most important point from this piece. Often people don't really know what they really want when it comes to creative work, let alone to some omniscient algorithm. In spite of that, it's a delight to see something you love from an unspecific prompt that you won't find with anything you receive from a human.

Dall.E 2 never ceases to amaze me.

For anyone interested in learning about what Dall.E 2 can do, the author also links to the Dall.E 2 prompt book (discussed in this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32322329).

That might be true, but after experimenting with DALL·E 2 last week (and spending more than $15), I have a different theory.

My tests focused on how well it could create art works around three common themes: still life, landscape, and portrait. For the first two categories, almost all the results were works that would not have looked out of place in a museum or art gallery. In contrast, with the prompt of “A painting of a young woman sitting in a chair” and variations, while DALL·E 2 produced convincing clothing, furniture, background, etc., the faces were mostly horrible. I started adding “from the rear” and “turned to the side” to the prompt just to get the face out of the picture.

I came to suspect that DALL·E 2 is bad at faces not because the developers made it that way but because human beings are uniquely hardwired to recognize faces. Most people are able to recognize and remember hundreds of faces, and we are very sensitive to minor changes in their configurations (i.e., facial expressions). When we look at a painting of a person sitting in a chair, we don’t care if aspects of the chair, the person’s clothing, etc. are not precisely accurate; a slight distortion of the face, however, can ruin the entire work. DALL·E 2 does not seem to have been trained to have the same sensitivity to faces that humans have.

If anyone is interested, the works that DALL·E 2 created for me are at [1]; video slideshows with musical accompaniment are at [2].

[1] http://www.gally.net/temp/dalleimages/index.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj4urky_8icRPzgFS_b98...

Even when I re-used the exact prompts from the DALL-E Prompt Book, I didn't get anything near the level of quality and fidelity to the prompt that their examples did.

I know it's not a scam, because it's clearly doing amazing stuff under the hood, but I went away thinking that it wasn't as miraculous as it was claimed to be.

I have my own api key as well but not with DALL-E 2 access just yet but seems similar in terms of prompting text in stages to get what you want. It feels kind of like negotiating with it in some way.

I love that we're at the level where the physical "realism" of correctly representing quadrupedals playing basketball is a thing now. I suppose the next level AI will be expected to model a full 3d environment with physical assumptions based on the prompt and then run the simulation

Film still of a llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan, low angle, show from below, tilted frame, 35°, Dutch angle, extreme long shot, high detail, indoors, dramatic backlighting.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/999377404113981462/10...

Llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan, screenshots from the Miyazaki anime movie

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/999377404113981462/10...

The DALL-E 2 prompt book. If anything, pretty neat look at how the various prompts come out and some of the art created by it.

I mostly use it and Midjourney for material for my DnD campaign, but I'm going to need to do a little more work to make the whole thing coherent. Only tried it once and it was okay.

The interesting part is that it can do things like "female ice giant" reasonably whereas google will just give you sexy bikini ice giant for stuff like that which is not the vibe of my campaign!

Rather than trying to perfectly describe my image, I like to use references where the source material has what you want. With minimal direction these prompts get impressively close:

"larry bird as a llama, dramatic basketball dunk in a bright arena, low angle action shot, from the movie Madagascar (2005)" https://labs.openai.com/s/wxbIbXa0HRwwGUqQaKSLtzmR

"Michael Jordan as a llama dunking a basketball, Space Jam (1996)" https://labs.openai.com/s/mX4T5Iak8CMO1rPAmjRb7oyH

At this point I'd experiment with more stylized/recognizable references or add a couple "effects" to polish up the results.

I thought this was strange. Why hide an AI generated face?

Myself cant seem to get it to work. I think it's not very good at real things. Tried fitness related images, all is weird. Probably with fantasy kinda stuff its better since it has to be less accurate.

I think we're at the beginning of exploring what these image models can do and what the best ways to work with them are.

[0] https://promptwiki.com

This is kind of funny. DALL·E is one of the most impressive pieces of software, but such a basic feature like history is curiously underpowered.

That’s not as easy as it sounds. Specially in the surreal cases that DALL-E is usually requested.

Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it. Other times you do, but are not able to express in ways that the computer can understand.

I see being able to communicate efficiently with the machine as a future in demand skill

Some guy spent hours feeding the AI pictures he liked to get an end result he was happy with.

I ran out of credits way too fast, so I like to see other people playing with it and their iterative process.

Sounds awfully like programming...

I wonder what Gary Marcus or Filip Pieknewski think about it. Surely they must be eating crow.