AI Outtakes, Vol. 3

I have to be honest, when I published the first one of these I wasn't actually sure how long I'd be able to keep doing them. Still not, to be honest. But one of our values at Orchestra AI is the quote from Jerry Greenfield, on of the founders of Ben & Jerry's: "If it's not fun, why do it?"

At Orchestra, when we work on content marketing for clients we recognize the importance of imagery to support the material. The hero image us your best chance to get people to read the article, and finding unique and interesting images to support the article's content is actually part of our workflow. Very often that process involves finding a visual metaphor to capture the essence of the content, and then using generative AI to create a stock photo or illustration of that metaphor. Sometimes that works perfectly, like this image of a canary in a server room. But a lot of times it goes wrong in unexpected ways, and as long as that remains true, there will be AI Outtakes.

Now on to the images!

an illustration of a net that has trapped a large group of mouse cursors like a fishing boat, with a few stray mouse cursors outside of the net.

Computers, like some humans, have trouble when the same word means different things in different contexts. Literal mouse cursors. Of course.

a detailed illustration of a robot in a cave at the top of a mountain giving answers to a crowd

This AI model was obviously trained on thousands of 1970s sci-fi book cover illustrations.

an 8k high resolution photo of a newspaper with a video screen embedded in it

In the Rurliacas of Cardan's there is a famous newspaper cover image: TIWENRY DEFEATS TRUMAN

Was generative AI trained on East German TV shows

Here's a great example of expecting AI to give you a great example for a metaphor, only to repeatedly drop the ball (or in this case, the comet).

an 8k high resolution photo of a prehistoric landscape with dinosaurs. In the sky a robot tucked into a ball is speeding towards the ground.

Okay maybe that prompt was a little too complex. I didn't actually want the comet to be a robot, I've just used robot in the past to represent AI. I actually wanted to represent Google's AI, so maybe generative AI knows logos?

an 8k high resolution photo of a prehistoric landscape with dinosaurs. In the sky a comet is speeding towards the ground. The comet looks like Google's logo.

OK I can photoshop a Google logo in. Can it just do dinosaurs looking at an oncoming comet? HAS GENERATIVE AI EVER SEEN AN 8TH GRADE SCIENCE TEXTBOOK?

an 8k high resolution photo of a prehistoric landscape with dinosaurs. In the sky a comet is speeding towards the ground. The dinosaurs are all looking at the comet.