Comment by frotaur

10 days ago

It's crazy that the 'piss filter' of openAI image generation hasn't been fixed yet. I wonder if it's on purpose for some reason ?

If you don’t want your image to look like it’s been marinated in nicotine, throw stuff like “neutral white background, daylight balanced lighting, no yellow tint” into your prompt. Otherwise, congrats on your free vintage urine filter.

They don't want you creating images that mimic either works of other artists to an extent that's likely to confuse viewers (or courts), or that mimic realistic photographs to an extent that allows people to generate low-effort fake news. So they impose an intentionally-crappy orange-cyan palette on everything the model generates.

Peak quality in terms of realistic color rendering was probably the initial release of DALL-E 3. Once they saw what was going to happen, they fixed that bug fast.

  • SDXL and FLUX models with LoRAs can and do vastly outperform at tons of things singular big models can't or won't do now. Various subreddits and civitAI blogs describe comfyui workflows and details on how to maximize LoRA effectiveness and are probably all you need for a guided tour of that space.

    This is not my special interest though but the DIY space is much more interesting than the SaaS offerings; this is something about generative AI more generally that also holds, the DIY scene is going to be more interesting.

    • Agreed. People can do things at home that couldn't be done with any of the overcapitalized-but-thoroughly-nerfed commercial models.