AI Outtakes, Vol. 16

Technology companies love using code names for special projects. If you have an Apple computer you are probably aware that all of the releases of their operating system are named after California landmarks (although they previously used big cat names). Intel and AMD do this with their chip lines, too. And it's not just tech companies; the military loves code names, and it's common for businesses of all sizes to code name a project at its inception since the formal name might not be generated for quite a while, and people need to know how to refer to it in the meantime.

We at Orchestra AI been working on a project (more on that later) that needed to generate code names dynamically. So Noemi Millman had the great idea to generate a long list of colors and a long list of animals, and when we assign a new code name, just pick one from each list to make a quasi-unique code name.

Well, the first time we tried the tool it gave us the color+animal name khaki yak . The next time it was lemon chiffon alligator.

You can probably see where this is going.

I'd like to get an image of a khaki yak . Have as much fun with creating it as you can

This is a fun photo, but I was hoping for something a little more literal.

Is there a more literal way you could depict this? Such as a yak wearing all khaki?

Okay - thiiiis is what I'm here for.

What about a literal interpretation of a lemon chiffon alligator

These turned out so well, we decided to use the images in addition to the color+animal theme. But to get it working we needed to shift to an illustration style, starting with our next combination, tomato dingo.

make a whimsical image of a tomato dingo to go on a web page. make it tomato-colored and include tomatoes. dingo should appear a bit perplexed

Now make a similar image for a moccasin fish

It's a fun image, but not in the same style as the others. Okay, let's skip that one for now and try again.

create a whimsical line-art illustration of a "seashell chicken"

Good illustration. Not what we looking for.

can you please try another interpretation?

I don't want a chicken made out of seashells. Let's generate a stylized line-art illustration for the chicken living in a seashell, please, but make it an adult chicken.

So far we've been using DALL-E 3 for these. I wonder if the SDXL model is any better?

a photographically realistic vintage illustration of a chicken sitting in a giant conch shell

It's doing the literal depiction part correctly, but what's missing in these last few is the 'funny' aspect. Let's see if we can force that.

a photographically realistic but highly whimsical and extremely detailed line art illustration of a chicken sitting in a giant conch shell.

No. Apparently we cannot.

Maybe it's the realism and detail that's forcing these away from funny and towards medieval?