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Some of these are a bit nightmarish!

https://replicate.com/api/models/stability-ai/stable-diffusi...

I love it. But whoever entered "spider salad" and "cockroach salad" previously so it would show up when I searched for "salad" -- I'm mad at you.

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Yeah I would love a university to use this on their website. https://replicate.com/api/models/stability-ai/stable-diffusi...

Found the next Welch's Grape Juice kid: https://replicate.com/api/models/stability-ai/stable-diffusi...

The terrifying thing is this is what we look like to the AI. It sees us as melty faced monsters.

Although it would make a good art piece at a campus

In V2 we're planning to add a voting system and additional filtering/tagging to solve for a lot of these unusual/nightmareish summoned images.

I for one am sorry for your cockroach salad jump-scare, but of course, you know summoning from beyond is tricky business.

Actual stock photo websites have human reviewers and it's a big part of their value proposition.

I searched for “happy” and I tend to agree with the nightmarish look. Pretty much all of the results looked like they would love to use their happy teeth to eat you. Consistently hitting the uncanny valley

Yeah, unfortunately uncanny valley is spot on for most generated faces with this version of Stable Diffusion.

I've seen some people tackle the problem by running faces through a secondary AI that makes faces look "better" [1] though in this case "better" just means "pretty" by recent western standards, so that has its own set of shortcomings.

I'd be interested to hear what you think about the inanimate object searches?

[1] https://replicate.com/tencentarc/gfpgan

> AI that makes faces look "better" [1] though in this case "better" just means "pretty" by recent western standards

The AI is not making the faces pretty, it's just restorating them, even the "ugly" ones. The AI was trained on FFHQ, a dataset that contains considerable variation in terms of age, ethnicity; also it was trained by Tencent ARC Lab, so I have no idea how the west has anything to do with this.

It makes the faces average, which correlates with perceived beauty.

Sometimes can be cute: https://dropover.cloud/d6b973#841f5cc5-f92f-44fe-93ec-9e9b9d...

The uncanny valley is real but I guess these issues can be fixed with a "face sanity engine".

"Limbs sanity engine" can help too: https://dropover.cloud/8bf440#ce54ae49-bb16-4ce9-97d1-71b3b8...

Gives a whole new meaning to "debugging."

This might just be the best stock photo site for YouTube creepypasta videos.

Oh yes. Some are very creepy / hilarious. Awesome just the same.

No wonder they call it ghostly.

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