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Worth noting that DALL-E automatically “rejects attempts to create the likeness of any public figures, including celebrities". So, you wouldn't be able to get an image that included the 4 Liverpudlians. It does allow you to create fake faces. Might be fun to try and recreate Miles Davis Tutu, Aladdin Sane, Piano Man.

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It will yell at you and threaten your account with termination if you try to create anything based on a living person's face, from what I can tell.

Yep. I once tried to create a cartoon dinosaur with hair in the “style” of an ex President (yellow and combed forward), and was warned with a potential ban.

My experience was that if you name a celebrity (and the request isn't blocked) it quite often generated something that has the same general vibe of the target, while also looking entirely unlike them.

It reminds me of how TV shows often have a president that resembles the current president in superficial ways, while being distinct enough that they won't get sued.

I'd be interested to know why this happens.

There’s a high standard of harm for libel of public figures — knowingly false plus actual malice, iirc. Seems more likely it’s just bad at these details. How would you test it, since it’s not going to have sufficient or reliable source data for ordinary people?

ETA: OK, well, based on the following comments, it has a prohibition on living people, but you can’t libel the dead. So it either is bad at faces or it has a prohibition there too. The article would have mentioned if DALL-E said it wouldn’t render Lennon or Harrison. QED, bad at faces?

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