When AI Goes Awry

by Lori Kingston

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When AI Goes Awry

Artist

Lori Kingston

Medium

Digital Art - Photo, Digitally Altered

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Sometimes it's hard to understand what Deep Dream Generator is doing. It's an online AI program which has recently added a text to art option, with a space for prompts or the possibility of using a random prompt, as well as a good list of modifiers and other settings that can be changed.

So I started with my photo of coin wrapper ends and gave it the prompt "playing games at beach." I chose the modifiers "poster" and "fantasy," set it to landscape and quality to high. The results are ... chaotic to say the least. And since when are there trees on the beach?

But there's the option to "evolve" the image, using the new image as a starting point, and changing any of the prompts, modifiers, or settings along the way. On of the settings is a "negative prompt" which I understood to mean that anything you put in here would be left out of the picture. So I typed in "trees" as my negative prompt. If anything, I got more trees. And lots of straight lines. And the colors got more muted. Weird.

Okay, going back to that first chaotic beach scene, let's make the negative prompt "no trees, no plants." That should do it.

Well, that did something. Now I have something that looks absolutely dystopian! No trees, at least. But lots of cars and motorcycles, and is that a guy in Roman helmet?? I'm so confused.
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February 2nd, 2023

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