A.I. Generated UTMC Art

[problemaddict]

Is there a thread for this yet? If not, I'll start...

Playing around with "MIDJOURNEY" AI Art program. You have to join a Discord channel and then you can enter descriptions for the images you are looking to create. For the first one, I simply entered "underground terrorist motorcycle cult". For the second, I asked for variation on the first image. For the third, I clicked on "Upscale" for the first (upper left quadrant) image.

Anyone else playing around w/ this stuff? As an insomniac, its a great way to whittle away time while waiting to feel tired again...

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[DerGolgo]

[Pattio]

It’s kind of interesting to reflect on how those four words of our group’s name relate to what we ‘really are’, and to think about what key words might create images closer to our reality, if less dramatic and interesting. As the concept goes that you ‘can’t prove a negative’, so it goes that it is hard to express what the UTMC ‘is’ when so much of what it ‘is’ is what we are not, a place for those who are not part of conventional HD-worshipping, 1%-emulating low-effort US motorcycle culture tropes. I wonder what keywords would give images of back-roads riding, diner laughing, coffee drinking two-wheelers, and if such images would be any where near as interesting as shadowy figures in night rubble.

[problemaddict]

I hear ya, we are decidedly not aggressive ppl, but much of our imagery is pretty aggro.

I wonder if adding a - sign in front of the keywords would work in a boolean fashion... -larper -hd.worship, etc... Or maybe adding "tropeless" heheh

Here, I tried: road grimed astronauts, dimly lit parking lot, standing next to parked motorcycles

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I think I should add "enjoying beverages"

[DerGolgo]

I don't discord.
So will someone please try "Uma Thurman Midget Circus" and "Unicorns took Mountain's Car"?

[DerGolgo]

Okay. So I am discording. Fuck that is a terrible interface.

"Unicorns Took Mountain's Car"

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"Uma Thurman Midget Circus"

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...she does look terrifying, doesn't she.

[DerGolgo]

Aaaaaaaaaaand
found it!
"Many Angry Unicorns Took My Car" did the trick.

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[Shhted]

Using Dall-E 2, I typed "Hooray For Choppers Underground Terrorist Motorcycle Cult". https://labs.openai.com/s/CgPvWZDoJe7kQr4lL89IJNbC

[Shhted]

Here it is via NightCafe, but "Terrorist" is banned, so I had to use Terror. https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creati ... 4MdO5eGRn1

[DerGolgo]

Here it is via NightCafe, but "Terrorist" is banned, so I had to use Terror.

Fixed that for ya.
I think.
Does the image show?

[DerGolgo]

Using Dall-E 2, I typed "Hooray For Choppers Underground Terrorist Motorcycle Cult".

DALL·E 2023-01-17 15.07.46 - Hooray for Choppers Underground Motorcycle Terrorist Cult.png

I took the liberty of downloading that image and uploading it to our own servers, because these links make my brainz hurtz.

[DerGolgo]

Yes. Give me something to play with. It's not like I have shit to do.

This is the Uma Thurman Midget Circus evolved once:

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Trippy, innit.

Unicorns Took Mountain's Car is very disappointing!

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I blew 2 credits, and I didn't even get any unicorns!!

[DerGolgo]

@Shhted thanks, DALL-E 2 is a terrifying playground.
https://labs.openai.com/

You get 50 credits for signing up, and another 15 per month afterwards. Each credit makes four images, and they are well different from one another.

Here is Unicorns Took Mountain's Car, with a few tweaks.

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I found a list of art styles one can tell the AI to use, no idea how complete. It is hence: https://tokenizedhq.com/dall-e-styles/

[DerGolgo]

Okay. I have wasted way too many credits on this, but I finally got it. This is the one!

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I'm worried, really. I've been playing around to see if I could make it make me a nice cover for an old book project I was thinking I might pick up again.

We don't need AI to make art. But for a lot of things, this AI will make a lot of graphic designers unemployed. I'm thinking that, for a while, the marketable skill will be talking to the AI and getting results quick.

[DerGolgo]

To my great dismay, the word "midget" is verboten, as is Uma Thurman.

So I tried unicorns and dwarf circus, pink, happy, hooray for choppers.
See at the bottom, the results weren't so groovy.

unicorns and dwarf circus, pink, happy, hooray for chopper motorcycles got the winner:

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And these:

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the bottom (sans motorcycles in the description):

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[DerGolgo]

And because I cannot help myself, I did one more set. No happy, no pink.
unicorns and dwarf circus, menacing, hooray for chopper motorcycles, dark

My favorites in descending order:

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Unicorns that are gonna knife ya, well, the AI came up with that all by its lonesome.

Also ran:

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[DerGolgo]

So I set it loose on cafe racer Motorcycle with Wasp Major radial engine, photo realistic.

All look a bit Yamaha, a bit XS 650, don't they?

[DerGolgo]

cafe racer Motorcycle with Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major radial aircraft engine, photo realistic

Uhhmmm...

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...yeah...

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[DerGolgo]

Okay, okay, I'll stop now!

Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major radial aircraft engine made into a motorcycle, photo realistic

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[problemaddict]

Using Dall-E 2, I typed "Hooray For Choppers Underground Terrorist Motorcycle Cult". DALL·E 2023-01-17 15.07.46 - Hooray for Choppers Underground Motorcycle Terrorist Cult.png

I took the liberty of downloading that image and uploading it to our own servers, because these links make my brainz hurtz.

This one has some heavy Ralph Steadman vibes.


ALL the cartoon unicorn shit is mildly terrifying

[problemaddict]

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LoL

[problemaddict]

I found this digital artist on insta. Looks like they are using MidJourney to get some basics and then editing from there to polish it up. (Maybe?)

I know some (most?) artists loathe this AI shit ("Hi xtian!"), But, using it as a tool, getting inspiration, then tweaking it to your final vision, seems like the path this concept will follow in the near future.

Anyway, the images posted on the gram instantly grabbed my attention. I love that they went with a "wastelander" vibe but with a bubble-gum-pop color palette. It sent my mind reeling with ideas of mixing the ratbike & punk aesthetics I love with anything BUT black or grey colors.

https://www.instagram.com/dai33_62/

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[Bigshankhank]

Aaaaaaaaaaand
found it!
"Many Angry Unicorns Took My Car" did the trick.
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As something of a luddite I have not bothered to try my hand at any AI-generated anything. Typical for me to is buy a game console two gennies behind the current one (I have a PS3 on my TV) so I'll get into long after the AI's have taken over I reckon.

All that is to say this series of images elicited a hell of a chuckle from my hoary lungs. Well done. Next time try the Fighting the gangster Frankenstein Radio Earphone thing as an input prompt.

[motorpsycho67]

I be larfing

[Jaeger]

Finally screwing around with this and... yeah this shit is weird.

--Jaeger

[DerGolgo]

Finally scre***g around with this and... yeah this shit is weird.

Turns out that screwing is a prohibited word.

Results (no start image):

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Are these modifications of images of real people? Eff if I know.
As regards the image in the bottom right that looks like how I see when I shut my left eye?
Well.

1.5 credits were refunded due to censored output. Sorry, we're working on a better detection system.