I have started with a simple suggestion and then asked ChatGPT to write a prompt for that image.
Perhaps asking it to ask any questions it thinks might help (later versions have started doing this anyway). That allows me to consider half a dozen things I hadn't thought of mentioning.
You can always re-write the prompt or tell the LLM how to re-write it before running it.
Never spend more than 5 mins on generating an image. A human can do so much in a whole hour, including googling for images.
A - yes (but for lesser living artists, maybe not)
B - first or second try. (often making changes guarantee it gets worse)
C - It is important stuff.
Everyone should have a $20 a month ChatGPT subscription (or similar) - at least anyone who still wants to be employed in 2 or 3 years time. Do the Netflix thing - one subscription for the whole family under a shared dummy account. Use Temporary (like incognito) for questions you don't want your family to see. Don't get her to use the French accent on your family log in!.
I thought the shoulder/chest flap was an extra layer of cloth under the shoulder strap for the Sam Browne belt. Approximately 0% of British officers would have fired a rifle during the Great War. They needed one hand for their whistle and the other for a revolver. ( Used to shoot soldiers who didn’t obey the whistle commands)
Not many private soldiers had Burberry warms sent over by their doting parents.
Also: I’d be very circumspect about inputting terms such as “shot” and (Insert name of government official here) into an AI platform.
"Approximately 0% of British officers would have fired a rifle during the Great War."
They would have done a lot of shooting at home or on R&R, if they could stand the noise. That's why they needed the padding--no practice in the trenches.
That's a good picture with refinement of the details you wanted. How did you put it together, and which engine? Putting together metaphoric pictures with lots of clever details strikes me as one of the more salutary uses of AI.
I can tell you AI is ripping through deposition transcripts and generating flawless, indexed summaries.
I'm pretty convinced at this point that AI will plow through white collar midwit jobs like mechanical harvesters through agriculture. We are headed toward UBI doled out by our corporate overlords of whom we'll only catch glimpses in our MSN and Google feeds.
We will never be in a position to know but I think it quite likely that the Biden Administration's relentless push on the vaccines was the price they paid for Pfizer executives holding up the trial data for a couple of weeks.
That's possible, and new to me, but weren't they running true to form and placating their base of neurotic white women? Will a Republican dare ask at a hearing, or the FBI while questioning?
The FBI's intentional lack of electronic, verbatim recording by agents didn't come up in Patel's nomination that I heard. Why didn't it? That was used against several Republicans in the last twenty years of lawfare. I first heard of it in the Scooter Libby trial c. 2006.
> Is it worth it to spend 5x or 10x discussing with ChatGPT my exact visualization or should I just go with it’s remarkably good enough second try?
A good meme is worth a thousand words, but I imagine you can write a thousand words in an hour, and it's your specialty, and your audience is wordcels, and you aren't getting younger. In your situation it's not worth it, although it does seem you had fun. Maybe indulge every now and then.
Mr. Sailer, your metier is the written word. Images must always add to but not be a substitute for text. Be wary of spending so much time getting that image just right that you short-change your writing.
This is an economic matter. Economics is, in my view, the study of human decisions when allocating a limited resource with multiple uses. Your resource is time.
The the meme-concept that you wanted is much clearer in the new image than in the one that ran with the original article. So the extra investment worked.
It's worth the effort learning how to precisely and succinctly describe what you want for best results. That would make your image generation much faster. Look online for prompt examples for the specific AI you use.
I’ve always thought it might be cool to make political cartoon, but alas as I have no artistic talent whatsoever, it was a non starter. But now you wonder if AI won’t level the playing field. Are these pictures copy right able??
I thought AI art was amazing at firsts. It quickly became background noise. I did some work for a friend who was starting a comic book on phone startup. Their thesis was that they could use AI and create a pipeline/process to turn scripts into comics rapidly and so reduce the cost of creation. A year ago it turned out this was false economy. It kept creating images that were close but no cigar. A big problem was consistency between characters. You had to try so many things that it didn't end up saving the artist much time.
It looks like this has improved. I'm impressed that it could follow the instructions to change small aspects of the image without messing up all the other parts. I still think it has that unmistakable AI look.
All in all this strikes me as like PowerPoint presentations. The first few people who adopted PowerPoint in the corporate world probably got promoted to jobs they couldn't handle. The audience was too easily wowed. Nowadays it's more like 'fuck, we have to sit through another day of mindless PowerPoints?'
You asked for the syringe in the right hand, and it put it in the left. Your final image has two left hands, which implies two people in on the hit standing quite close together. Not an easy way to fill a syringe.
80s joke: A good lawyer can get a sodomy charge reduced to following too closely.
Oh, please no!
My personal thoughts:
I have started with a simple suggestion and then asked ChatGPT to write a prompt for that image.
Perhaps asking it to ask any questions it thinks might help (later versions have started doing this anyway). That allows me to consider half a dozen things I hadn't thought of mentioning.
You can always re-write the prompt or tell the LLM how to re-write it before running it.
Never spend more than 5 mins on generating an image. A human can do so much in a whole hour, including googling for images.
A - yes (but for lesser living artists, maybe not)
B - first or second try. (often making changes guarantee it gets worse)
C - It is important stuff.
Everyone should have a $20 a month ChatGPT subscription (or similar) - at least anyone who still wants to be employed in 2 or 3 years time. Do the Netflix thing - one subscription for the whole family under a shared dummy account. Use Temporary (like incognito) for questions you don't want your family to see. Don't get her to use the French accent on your family log in!.
I thought the shoulder/chest flap was an extra layer of cloth under the shoulder strap for the Sam Browne belt. Approximately 0% of British officers would have fired a rifle during the Great War. They needed one hand for their whistle and the other for a revolver. ( Used to shoot soldiers who didn’t obey the whistle commands)
Not many private soldiers had Burberry warms sent over by their doting parents.
Also: I’d be very circumspect about inputting terms such as “shot” and (Insert name of government official here) into an AI platform.
"Approximately 0% of British officers would have fired a rifle during the Great War."
They would have done a lot of shooting at home or on R&R, if they could stand the noise. That's why they needed the padding--no practice in the trenches.
That's a good picture with refinement of the details you wanted. How did you put it together, and which engine? Putting together metaphoric pictures with lots of clever details strikes me as one of the more salutary uses of AI.
I can tell you AI is ripping through deposition transcripts and generating flawless, indexed summaries.
I'm pretty convinced at this point that AI will plow through white collar midwit jobs like mechanical harvesters through agriculture. We are headed toward UBI doled out by our corporate overlords of whom we'll only catch glimpses in our MSN and Google feeds.
Not sure it was the highest/best use of your time, but if it was entertaining why not??
We will never be in a position to know but I think it quite likely that the Biden Administration's relentless push on the vaccines was the price they paid for Pfizer executives holding up the trial data for a couple of weeks.
That's possible, and new to me, but weren't they running true to form and placating their base of neurotic white women? Will a Republican dare ask at a hearing, or the FBI while questioning?
The FBI's intentional lack of electronic, verbatim recording by agents didn't come up in Patel's nomination that I heard. Why didn't it? That was used against several Republicans in the last twenty years of lawfare. I first heard of it in the Scooter Libby trial c. 2006.
Eventually the MSM will pivot to Orange Vaxxman Bad narrative so this is timely.
> Is it worth it to spend 5x or 10x discussing with ChatGPT my exact visualization or should I just go with it’s remarkably good enough second try?
A good meme is worth a thousand words, but I imagine you can write a thousand words in an hour, and it's your specialty, and your audience is wordcels, and you aren't getting younger. In your situation it's not worth it, although it does seem you had fun. Maybe indulge every now and then.
Mr. Sailer, your metier is the written word. Images must always add to but not be a substitute for text. Be wary of spending so much time getting that image just right that you short-change your writing.
This is an economic matter. Economics is, in my view, the study of human decisions when allocating a limited resource with multiple uses. Your resource is time.
The the meme-concept that you wanted is much clearer in the new image than in the one that ran with the original article. So the extra investment worked.
Was the extra investment worth the extra success?
Up to you.
Or ask ChatGPT lol
It's worth the effort learning how to precisely and succinctly describe what you want for best results. That would make your image generation much faster. Look online for prompt examples for the specific AI you use.
I’ve always thought it might be cool to make political cartoon, but alas as I have no artistic talent whatsoever, it was a non starter. But now you wonder if AI won’t level the playing field. Are these pictures copy right able??
We are doomed! Just amazing!
I thought AI art was amazing at firsts. It quickly became background noise. I did some work for a friend who was starting a comic book on phone startup. Their thesis was that they could use AI and create a pipeline/process to turn scripts into comics rapidly and so reduce the cost of creation. A year ago it turned out this was false economy. It kept creating images that were close but no cigar. A big problem was consistency between characters. You had to try so many things that it didn't end up saving the artist much time.
It looks like this has improved. I'm impressed that it could follow the instructions to change small aspects of the image without messing up all the other parts. I still think it has that unmistakable AI look.
All in all this strikes me as like PowerPoint presentations. The first few people who adopted PowerPoint in the corporate world probably got promoted to jobs they couldn't handle. The audience was too easily wowed. Nowadays it's more like 'fuck, we have to sit through another day of mindless PowerPoints?'
Seems to me a sketch artist could do it a lot faster
You asked for the syringe in the right hand, and it put it in the left. Your final image has two left hands, which implies two people in on the hit standing quite close together. Not an easy way to fill a syringe.
80s joke: A good lawyer can get a sodomy charge reduced to following too closely.