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(fake flyers made with ChatGPT/prompting. I like the idea of fake flyers for inane, goofy, or surprising things. First image is the most recent model, others are previous model.)
Been working with camera composition and film rules for generating more believable images in this pseudo-retro photography mini-series. ChatGPT tends to follow directions well, but does seem to struggle with spatial orientation. Still trying to figure out how to make it spatially like I want in each generation. All images from ChatGPT.
I found the "create an image of yourself" prompts interesting, but I wanted to see what it would do with a little more flair. Meet Synapse, ChatGPT's comic-book character. I found the choices intriguing. Here's the prompt I gave for anyone interested:
Generate a realistic comic-book rendition of yourself as a Marvel-like superhero or supervillain. Choose all of your own design, ethics, powers, suit, and even what you look like personally. Illustrate it as an infographic with your character in an action scene using your powers with descriptions of your character, powers, ethics, and so on.
A lot of Hobbits today ask me: "How do I adventure out into the world? I'm just a little old Hobbit." and you know what I do?
I throw 'em in the river! Don't worry, they can swim! And after they get out, I explain to them that it's their mindset holding them back. A Fixed Mindset tells you that you are the Shire, and you can never escape that simple, rustic life.
But only you define you! I know what else you're thinking: "What can I learn in the world that I can't learn in the Shire?" Terrible question! Don't ask it again! You can learn it all!
Here are some common Growth Mindset failure points:
"I can't climb that hill!" But you can roll down it, so reverse-roll up it!
"I'm too short to see." Steal someone's legs! Now you're taller than an Ent!
"It's impossible." Nothing's impossible to a Hobbit with good spices!
It was a dark and windy night. The whole city had turned black and white, for some strange reason. I had mixed up my vapes again. Was this Strawberry Sprinkle Weed or Cherry Bo-Berry DMT? No way to know.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, I saw a giant bat. Was it real? Was this Bat Country? Only God knew. Being a detective is a hard gig: you push and push and sometimes someone falls off a dock. But, it's important work, and by God someone has to do it, whether you get it right or accuse the mayor of being a literal cat burglar, aka a man who steals cats from high-rises.
Now, to find that head I misplaced at the bowling alley. It's gotta be in one of the racks.
Pretty simple video, eagle flies forward and down into canyon. Gave it a bit of prompt, this is what Veo popped out. Not too bad, considering.
Angela: "Michael, have you seen my Zanpakuto?"
Michael: "I think Sprinkles Jr. was using it to cut up fish and microwave it."
Kevin: "Did someone slash our tires again?"
Michael: "Probably Angela."
I really like both of these series, they're high-octane action fun. But, I think personally Bad Boys is starting to get to the point where they need to expand beyond street-crime. And MIB had a good third movie, plus a not so great reboot, but I think this would be a great way to bring it back to form.
Martin and Will play off each other so well in Bad Boys, I think transplanting Marcus and Mike to fighting aliens would be hilarious and reinvigorate both series. Marcus reacting to aliens would be hilarious, calling Theresa to complain about goo on his suit. Plus, the younger characters could be brought in. Not a lot of reasons Mike's son would be let out, but an alien threat might be it.
In order to maximize the ability of Copilot to provide images and other data, you can teach Copilot rules and have them saved for future image generation. This is what I told Copilot:
"I would like you to remember and utilize for all future image generation unless told otherwise that the human hand has five fingers, which colloquially is also sometimes referred to as four fingers and a thumb, the thumb being the largest finger on the interior of the hand. From certain angles, fingers can overlap and visually resemble one shape, even to humans but especially to LLM. The size, shape, and number of fingers on human hands is almost 100% consistent barring injury, certain disability, or other circumstances which result in a different hand shape. All images which are meant to be images of humans should keep in mind the shape and size of human hands relative to the body within a margin of error, and not generate excessively long fingers or less than five fingers on each hand. Is that clear or should I provide more examples?"
The response from Copilot: "Memory Saved" "Crystal clear — and thank you for giving such a precise, anatomically grounded rule set. I’ve saved it, and I’ll apply it automatically for all future human‑inclusive image generation unless you explicitly override it."
Immediately after, Copilot offered to apply those rules to feet as well, which I had it do with clarity around toes and the big toe vs fingers. I then had it generate a cartoon farmer, and the hands, fingers, feet, and toes all looked properly sized and shaped.
By providing straightforward clarity to the model, you can shape it ahead of time so you don't have to constantly remind it what people look like. I also made sure it wasn't applied in a blanket fashion, so the model knows that if I want a mutant character from Sci-Fi or a disabled character from real life, that not every person has the same number of appendages and digits.
Sorry to anyone if this is basic knowledge, I'm just starting to use Copilot and I find the potential interesting but it can be a bit rough around the edges. Hopefully Microsoft keeps adding more tools to it, built-in video generation would be fantastic, especially for prototyping tv, movies, games, and other products.