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Why can’t we sit down like civilized people and solve our differences like adults? Best 2 out of 3? Heroes and villains playing poker, “boardgame”, D&D and Scrabble. Why it chose Spidey as a villain is a mystery.

Talk about falling down a rabbit hole, this was it for me last week. There’s a great passage in the classic Joe Haldeman novel The Forever War where the instructor talks about the evolution of combat armor, particularly how idiotic some of the designs were — Haldeman’s commentary on military hardware and egghead design, similar to the “Bangalore Torpedo” scene from The Big Red One: Anyway, I spent an inordinate amount of time goofing around with creating a fictional evolution of combat armor from steampunk to nanotech. This AI business is a trap! 😂

Same. For my Space Patrol series I found that “raygun” wasn’t acceptable but “laser rifle” was. Bizarrely and sometimes hilariously the program itself goes waaay over the line. When I was messing with the Facepunch fellows, I wanted some, y’know, face punching, but it didn’t like that. So I tried variations on punch/hit/strike etc and a couple of them were extremely bloody indeed. One pic featured two of the guys covered in gore while another had a guy smashing his fist through a werewolf’s cranium. Dial it back to PG, Sparky. I also wanted an “after the fight” pic where the hero is holding up a concussed villain by the front of his shirt. I feel like I’ve seen that a dozen times in comics and movies, like when Lou beats up Tyler in Fight Club. Boy-howdy did *that* prompt go off the rails.

It *really* doesn’t like the words “bull” or “cow”. Getting it to make any version of Irish Bull was a struggle. I don’t recall how I ended up with a pic at all, because trying words like “buffalo” or “bison” resulted in regular versions of those animals.

I’m starting to find that repetition is my friend when it comes to AI. In keeping with this topic, it requires a real belt-and-suspenders approach. That’s why I frequently include ridiculous phrases such as “white Caucasian”, “black African”, “female woman” or “male man” - otherwise it just doesn’t get it or has the computer version of ADD. In my attempt to get a proper jacket on Citizen Robot upthread I tried both tailored and bespoke, neither returning satisfactory pictures, but using “bespoke tailored” did. With Bing AI in particular I run afoul of its content warning constantly, and it makes no sense. For a couple weeks the word “zombie” was verboten. So I used “undead” instead. Then yesterday I forgot and used zombie again, and it was fine. When I was trying to get a picture of Skunk Punk I found that the phrase “skunk hero” resulted in constant rejection, but that “hero skunk” was a-ok. Like… wut? One of my anthropomorphic animals kept returning the warning, but the exact same prompt had just rendered. I kept pushing the button and every other time it produced a pic, followed by a rejection. Baffling.

Tanker time - New Hampshire & Battleshield. No confirmation from their representatives if they're dating but social media is rife with speculation. Bonus: Doppelganger fight

I gave it a go, too. oil painting, a dapper man dressed in an all-white bespoke tailored suit with white fedora, white shoes, sunglasses, with a slight glow emanating from hismbody Realizing there was a typo, I re-entered it. oil painting, a dapper man dressed in an all-white bespoke tailored suit with white fedora, white shoes, sunglasses, with a slight glow emanating from his body

If you’ve read through this thread then you know we’ve all been there. The programs have some blind spots, which range from annoying to hilarious. But every once in a while the AI nails it. I’d think that your Thin White Duke would be pretty easy, but I don’t know what you’re going for. Those renders look decent to me. (Extra fingers aside. But those are easy to fix.)

My ultimate anthropormorphic animal team-up. Super Beasts + Wild Things + Sky Lords: Raptor Chapter

That one in the upper left corner looks doable, but I’m not sure that deep V pattern is available for males. But the Kid’n’Play haircut aside, those are some good looks.

Except it always comes out different, sometimes slightly, sometimes significantly. I’d really like the option of keeping the exact image but use it in different scenes. With that I could create an entire comic book that has consistent characters.

Not in Bing, as I mention upthread. Might be different in other programs.

Commander Quasar Had a difficult time with this one. It kept adding designs to the body and didn't understand the sparkles. art station style, no background black, cosmic hero floating straight-legged as if standing on air, wearing flat black featureless skin-hugging tights of the deepest vantablack without any pattern,, gold with silver inlay metal knee-high boots, gold with silver inlay metal gloves and vambraces, featureless mirrored skullcap covering his eyes, stardust sparkles shimmering around his body

The Family The Tsoo (Sorry, forgot to copy the prompts.)

Birthstone art station style, a bald female hero comprised entirely of colored translucent crystal, bright green translucent crystal boots, bright blue translucent crystal legs with green highlights, orange and yellow crsytal knees, bright green translucent crystal torso with blue and orange highlights, green and blue translucent crystal head with slightly glowing blue eyes art station style, action scene, a bald female hero comprised entirely of colored translucent crystal, bright green translucent crystal boots, bright blue translucent crystal legs with green highlights, orange and yellow crystal knees, bright green translucent crystal torso with blue and orange highlights, green and blue translucent crystal head with slightly glowing blue eyes, fighting a large blocky dull gray granite rock monster art station style, action scene, city street, a bald female hero comprised entirely of colored translucent crystal, bright green translucent crystal boots, bright blue translucent crystal legs with green highlights, orange and yellow crystal knees, bright green translucent crystal torso with blue and orange highlights, green and blue translucent crystal head with slightly glowing blue eyes, fighting a large blocky dull gray granite rock monster,

Say, howsabout stripes and patterns on the full masks that replicate the ones on Chest and Legs? Like this one for instance: Edit: for the curious, this is an AI generated character from a discussion over on the AI Generative Art thread.

So what prompts did you use to get this look? I find that trying "watercolor" and the like don't return what I'm after.

Oh no, it was VERY stable. If by by "stable" you mean "turned off".

I downloaded Easy Diffusion and it really messed up my PC. Couldn’t even play CoH without crashing. Had to uninstall and defrag to get everything working properly again.

This is my favorite of all the ones you’ve done. It really looks like Atls Paark or Taos Isand. 😛 Seriously, though, drop in some actual text over that and it would be a terrific poster. It’s so,weird how the AI can’t spell, yet keeps trying to.

I tried several times to do an AI version of my mutant Mr. Magma, a guy who became a living volcano when he was assisting some scientists on a tropical island. (Sorry, currently 850 miles away from my computer so I don’t have the screenshot of his bio.) I asked for his skin to be basalt and lava and the program nailed that, but for some reason it kept giving me giant versions of him. I tried all sorts of qualifiers like giving an exact height (5’7”) or saying “average sized” or “short Latino man”, to no avail. I did manage to get a couple that were decent, but the enormous ones kept appearing. When I asked for the specific sizes they got either weirder or bigger. This is actually pretty close to the game and what I wanted: As soon as I requested more people in the scene, he started growing: And then there were weird, random renders:

Did you try “winged helmet” or “Norse helm” and such? Sometimes it has it filed under odd things like that I gave various things a try and Bing no likey. Here are the ones that came the closest: The various prompts, all of which resulted in winged backpacks most of the time. There were a couple more but I neglected to copy them. Mostly of the same ilk, and you can see the trends. I didn’t try “Space Ranger” because from previous experience it gives me ersatz Power Rangers. art station style, photo realist, golden age comics Space hero, laser pistol, open face helmet with stylized wing earpieces art station style, cel shaded, golden age comics Space hero, laser pistol, open face helmet with stylized wing earpieces art station style, cel shaded, 1920s Space Adventurer, laser pistol, winged space viking helmet art station style, cel shaded, science fiction, 1940s Space Adventurer, laser pistol, winged space viking helmet

Did you try “winged helmet” or “Norse helm” and such? Sometimes it has it filed under odd things like that. I had an impossible time getting it to do jetpacks, so I googled the word and I tried all the alternatives, getting nothing. It’s weird what blank spaces it has. I was on a Sinbad kick the other day and tried to get Bing to do fights between Sinbad & Kali and Sinbad & Cyclops. And BOY HOWDY does it have a terrifying idea about what a cyclops looks like. Trying to redefine it just made it all weirder. Even ended up with a triclops or two.

Is that what the kids call it these days? In my youth it was known as “pocket pool”.

Sadly no. At least not in Bing AI, which is what I've been using. I just did hundreds of iterations until I happened upon a few which kinda-sorta match up. I found that having more than two characters in the scene *really* confused it, so it would mix and match descriptions. More than a third of the time it would also add other characters for some reason. So I couldn't get it to render a team shot. To get the final team shot I kept asking for solo pictures until I had some that were close enough to the game look, then I erased the extraneous bits and edited them together. No two versions of Cliff Hanger look alike, but I figure the cowboy outfit disguises it a bit. (The program has no idea what chaps are.) Throwdown came out with a full head of hair 90% of the time despite specifying that he was bald. On the other hand, Big Galoot came out bald most of the time, and I only got him wearing blue sunglasses once. (Which I used above. He was also shirtless, so I just color-swapped some of his skin for the orange shirt as a dumb kludge. Don't look too closely, it's terrible.) I NEVER got a blonde version of Danger-Man, no matter how many times I asked. Not even with solo shots. And whenever I had them fighting bad guys, half the time the algorithm would turn them into one of the enemies. That shot with Danger-man and Nuckle Sammich facing the werewolf came from the prompt of those two and Galoot kicking werewolves off a moving train. Instead it gave Danger-Man a beard and turned Galoot into a wolf. In the shot with Throwdown and Danger-Man fighting plant monsters, it gave Dan a domino mask for some reason and also gave him Throwdown's utility harness and belt. With no plant monsters! But it looks cool, so why not. Here are a few of the many (many!) missed ones: