Daily Generations: Bard troubles

Illustrated by: Leon Fry

DALL-E

This was a tough one. It took far more prompts and refinements than I ever expected.

The the first illustration is my own work from several years ago. The second is from OpenAI’s DALL-E. I thought it would be fun to see how the robots would interpret my minimalistic art style and translate it to a classic table top RPG style.

I think it’s done a great job with the outfit, and the hair is pretty good. But overall, this was a lesson in that generative imaging and specificity have a hard time existing the same space.

I asked for a mandolin and it would only produce lutes. It had and obsession with three fingers on the right hand (I’m choosing to believe her middle finger is tucked under in this version). It never really got the skin tone right, brown and dark tan are not the same as a white person standing in a shadow! And if you want a female fantasy-genre character “sultry” is the only personality option available.

We really do need to address some of the stereotypes we are feeding these machines.

Those sleeves, though.