Trike

It actually is. 😆

Meanwhile, Trike’s alts just on Excelsior go to lunch…

Can someone help me with this? “Too many alts”? Wha-? It sounds like gibberish. Is there a Google Translate setting I’m missing?

I don’t understand. What language is this?

Citizen Robot and Comrade Automaton locked in a Cold War conflict.

Last one today, I promise. Haardvark! I love Haardvark. This is one of those bios where I cracked myself up while writing it, and I love how the outfit came together. I described the character and every time it iterated, he was giving a thumb's up, which I didn't ask for. I assume the ones where there are two characters that one is either his "guy in the chair" or he's standing next to the empty armor. I can't choose which one I like best. Maybe the first one. But I do like the helmet in the last one.

Miss Slay. I've never been crazy about the name but I love the costume. In game it really pops. These are the only 3 images it generated, but i like each of them for different reasons, and saw no reason to go back for more.

Hercules Jr. This one took a lot of circling. First it gave me little kids, then super-muscled giants... and it never once got a cyclops right. Specifying that he was a "lean 20 year old" and describing his outfit seemed to do the trick, although it only rendered his breastplate one out of 4 times for some reason. The 3-footed roc was weird, but not as strange as the floating-head hydra. A little clean-up in post will fix those, but here are the images straight from the algorithm. No idea why it changed style for the pegasus; I didn't ask for that.

Freempunk! Obviously just a CoH-specific pun but I actually quite liked how he turned out. I inputted his description into Bing, simply noting his clothes and the beam rifle, trying to describe his facial hair. But when I got these images back 2 minutes later I quite literally sat there gobsmacked, just saying, "Oh wow," over and over. Absolutely amazing.

Frankenstein Mobster. From the get-go these were pretty good. I went with "atmospheric 1940s film noir gangsters" for the scene. Small tweaks like asking for his crew to be all human and for Frank to tower over them, plus give him a fedora, really nailed it down. At that point I just kept pushing that button because I loved every iteration. I want to see this movie. Check out the sign in the last image. It came up with that completely on its own.

First Eagle, my Native American archer. This was another time where it nailed the prompt first time out. No need to tweak the prompts at all.

Def Leprechaun! Trying to get Bing AI to render either a shillelagh or a spiked cudgel was an exercise in futility. Eventually even it gave up and just gave her a fiddle, which I never asked for. 😁 For some reason it refused to render anything with a skirt, so I just deleted that ask.

Dance Fighter! This one took some finagling. Having her fight witches caused it to put her in a witch's hat. After that it gave her a bow. Zeroed in on it after a while by specifying martial arts and kicking. The middle picture cracks me up. She has a sidekick (again with the puns) and the "werewolves" look like guys who bought masks at the party supply store.

I like to do knockoffs of singers - so far I've done Adam Ant, Carl Maria von Weber and Elvis Presley. I quite like my version, Elvish Press-Lee. I gave Bing AI the prompt and the first four it generated were absolutely perfect. No notes. (No pun intended.)

I found that including a description of the boots/shoes/feet really increases the odds of getting a full body. For my various anthropormorphic animal heroes I included "clawed feet" for many of them regardless of species, and that generated full bodies every time. Edit: oops, forgot examples - I basically used a slightly modified version of SB's prompt with the "wide angle" stuff.

Thank ya, thank ya verra much. best image upload site

Suddenly had an inspiration for a companion to Citizen Robot. I quite like this world I came up with. https://ibb.co/T1f5sSk https://ibb.co/4pWSmWb

So I monkeyed around in Leonardo (AI Art Generator - Create Art, Images & More | Leonardo AI) with this, and it seemed like the best way to get what you were looking for was to just get a screenshot and upload that as guide. So I recreated Peace Blossom in game, took a few screenshots, erased the background... and got garbage. Googled "magical forest" and grabbed a likely scene, pasted the cut-out fairy onto it, tweaked it a couple times, and finally got this after 2-1/2 hours. Might've been quicker to learn how to draw. 😛

Which program did you use for this?

I just used the prompt Marshal General used above, except changing "beautiful female" to "handsome male" -- COMPLETELY FORGETTING to change "red skirt" 😂 -- and these are the three Bing made. The first two with the nipples and quasi-Superman diamond are amusing, but the last one was actually pretty good. detailed, hyper photo-realistic, handsome male superhero, blue eyes, blonde hair, good muscle tone, blue spandex top with a white star on the chest, red thigh length skirt, red folded boots, red folded gloves, red cape

That wouldn't explain why sometimes it worked and sometimes not. It's real black box stuff at this point.

Last night I did a bunch on Bing AI, toward the end I just typed in “make a superhero” just to see what it would make. It generated this long paragraph describing the scene, then proceeded to render, finally coming back with words to the effect of “cannot generate image because one or more words violated our TOS”. I was like, hey *I* didn’t violate the TOS, you dumb algorithm, *you* violated it! I tried several variations, like “make a Golden Age superhero” or “make a pulp magazine superhero”, with the same results. Then I went with “make a cool spaceship” and had the same issue over and over. Finally closed the window and started from scratch and it worked again. It was acting super weird. It would be helpful if they told you which words are verboten.

Did you add this to the theme music thread?

OMG I'm jealous of that name. So good!

Should we make an AI thread as SB suggested?