Hacker News Reader

Comment by topoftheforts | Hacker News Reader

You can do that with flux.1, it's the best image model right now as far as I'm aware, especially for dealing with text.

This is the result for "vegetables spelling out the word "HELLO"" I used flux-pro on Replicate https://ibb.co/1RVKmdk

Wow, it used very intersting vegetables, the very common E shapped cucumber and of course, the commonplace O shapped Tomatoe with a void in the middle. Very usual vegetables, can buy them in any grocery store.

Sometimes I wonder if anything can actually impress anyone on this site.

Words have plagued image gen since the start. Now there is an image model that, with an extremely simple prompt, does an awesome job with words.

If they expanded their prompt and played with a few seeds until an image with perfectly realistic vegetables were generated, I wonder what the next complaint would be.

People are threatened. They are not going to celebrate the thing that makes them irrelevant. They are going to talk shit about it and downplay it.

im not sure if threatened is correct, i think it's more a collective "why?" And there hasn't been a particuarly convincing answer

Right, tons of gen AI stuff is super impressive. It's really cool that we can do all this stuff. In this thread we're talking about a fun toy.

But the actual practical applications are like, small useful tools. There's no real sign we're heading for a world-changing trillion dollar industry.

When I see the prompt "the word HELLO spelled out in vegetables", I expect realistic vegetables being assembled into the appropriate shapes, such that e.g. the O is made of many different vegetables arranged in a circle.

I don't expect imaginary nightmare vegetables.

Nice! I haven't had a go at flux yet but I'll keep that in my back pocket for the next time I need to spell a word using vegetables.

It got the letters right but none of the vegetables it used exist on this planet.

Wikipedia has a dedicated article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusually_shaped_fruits_and_ve...

Yeah, and notice how the emphasis on the word "unusual".

Reply on news.ycombinator.com