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This is a side note / random observation, but it seems like "An astronaut riding a horse" has become the Lorem ipsum / Lenna / Utah teapot of AI text-to-image generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

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It’s funny, the original paper (DALL-E maybe?) used it as an example of something unlikely to exist in the training data, and therefore a good test of the model's compositional ability. Now that there’s so many successful generative models producing examples of horse-astronauts, producing them isn’t as obviously convincing.

Indeed!

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22An+astronaut+riding+a+hor...

The internet is already flooded with images generated by these common prompts.

It would be fun to have a space agency do a photoshoot of a real astronaut on a real horse ... just to complete the circle :)

There was a phase decades ago about "googlenope" -- defined as a phrase that google has never seen, so it would return zero results if searched with quotes.

Something similar for GenerativeAI may be worth coining?

What about the Obama on a scale picture for image understanding?

I have been using The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Funny you say that, I was just trying to get this to work! Do you get good results? For some reason I can't get sd2.1 to include the "lazy dog".

Something about bridging transportation technologies.

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