davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

Wow, that's weird.  What prompts did you use?
Anything can be faked these days....  why I question Absolutely Everything.
Someone did this with some Firefly characters and a similar program... the likenesses were not very good and fans in the group weren't impressed.
I have no idea how this stuff even works.  I kind of want to get one of the animator programs for the singing heads... so my mini crew can sing... haha... but not sure which ones are legit or safe.

For the "coffin" pic, the prompt was: antique dolls carrying a coffin.

For the "anime" pics, the prompt was: anime style figurine female with a pretty face

Yes, everything has to be questioned, and between stupid mistakes and intentionally misleading or flat-out false comments, almost everything is wrong. Case in point, I was reading an article yesterday about the new weapons being sent by various NATO countries to Ukraine, and the article said that the armor on the new tanks was made of "steel and uranium." I was all like, "whuuuut? Atomic-armored tanks? No way, there's no such thing!" Of course there's no such thing, as a cursory Internet search revealed the armor is an alloy of steel and titanium. Titanium and uranium are totally different stuffs, and the difference between titanium and uranium is kind of significant, especially in an age where there is frequent talk of nuclear weapons. So yeah, there's pretty much no single reliable news or information source anymore. I don't think "AI" can make things any worse in that regard.

A frequent, and accurate, criticism of the AI art apps is that they tend to distort faces, particularly eyes, and they have a lot of trouble rendering hands accurately. Hands often end up missing completely or are rendered as either shapeless blobs or as multi-tentacled anemone-like appendages.

I don't know how to determine which online apps are "safe" and which exist simply to data-mine personal information. I'm guessing most are the latter, but there's no way to tell. Internet security is a No Such Thing thing.

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26 January - A Doll A Day 2023:

Who needs actual dolls... or a camera?

I used "Pullip doll" with some additional modifiers as the text prompt for the AI generative art app Dall-E2 to generate these images.

This one looks more like a creepy Blythe doll, doesn't it?

This looks like a "fan art" illustration of Pullip Melissa.

I included "Melissa" in the text prompt

Pullip AImelia – I included "Amelia" in the text prompt

This one looks like a Mini

Are these KiraKira eye chips? 

The AI art app even rendered a Pullip-like elbow joint

Nice wig, huh? And flowers. (Note the funky disembodied leaf at lower left.)

I left the "color bars" watermark in the lower right corner of these images, which is the only identifying mark I can see that identifies images like this as being fully computer generated by a free online image app. It's easy to blur out or remove the watermark.

The EXIF information (embedded photo information available on most unedited or moderately edited digital images) includes:

User Comment - Made with OpenAI Labs

The images aren't perfect, but most of them would pass as being "real dolls" at a quick, casual glance. These images are generated with a "free" version of an online app, and I used only minimal prompts with a few words.

There are more sophisticated "consumer level" AI art apps available -- MidJourney is popular, and StableDiffusion is considerably more sophisticated, offering far more options for fine-tuning inputs, and even accepting specialized plug-ins to optimize the app for specialized image generation.

The commercial future for digital illustration and even for photography looks as though it might soon become extremely limited if nearly anyone can create cool, photo-realistic images using freeware apps.