Greetings -
After ‘playing’ with this for a few days I thought I’d make a little review for anyone considering subscribing to Premium to try out the new feature. And becasue I’m just curious about how things work, thought I’d write up some results of my experiments.
So basically, each ‘style’ is formulating a result in a different way. For instance, enter ‘Fox News’ in the color or black and white ‘no art’ styles and it’s doing a mashup of realistic actual photos referencing ‘Fox News’.
But prompt the same in one of the ‘art’ styles and it’s doing a different thing. Mostly it’s taking a more ‘literal’ interpretation of the words you put in.
Honestly, the photo styles are also just plain entertaining as well…
But I’ve focussed on the Super Cute style as it’s a little different. I’ve got quite a variety of outputs from this one, from literal to more of a mashup with ‘real’ elements.
Further, the Super Cute ‘style’ can also do some pretty heavy lifting in adapting imagery and I would say it’s the Magic Canvas’ strong suit.
The heroic portrait style can manifest an image in several different ways. From just slapping a head on a fairly narrow genre of armor -
To a more comic book ‘action’ style image -
To a more artistic interpretation.
I should also include a copy of the Terms of Use, which are surprisingly short -
First off, it says, ‘due to shortcomings in the software, the generated results are at risk of including…’ Laundry list of items. I personally would not call the depiction of those items a ‘shortcoming’. If you value the diversity, equity and inclusion of all elements of life into the creative expression of art, then I would consider those unintended, and in some cases unfortunate, outputs to be the freest expression of Liberty. But mabey that’s just me…
WTF… At any rate, I haven’t seen any ‘hateful’ symbols, although I haven’t prompted any either. But I have seen, with non-associated prompts, some nudity. Including, in super cute style, some images which might be considered inappropriate. I guess I was surprised at first, but upon further reflection I don’t think you can get a ‘clean’ output, without a massive restriction in scope. At which point, what’s the point…
[Obviously can’t show that here, and logged out and back in so they would go away…]
These ‘issues’ are something that are being discussed, along with ‘copyright’ implications, for the technology as a whole. My personal opinion is, just doing a google search can expose people to far worse (real) things. So the fact that the technology (of AI) can produce something we don’t want, or be used in an illegal manner, doesn’t mean we should not allow it. And many things are not inherently ‘wrong’ they’re simply open to ones interpretation.
So now that I’ve triggered a whole bunch of people… Bottom line is, I’m most interested in seeing how the technology operates, through a variety of outputs based on inputs. However, as a creative tool it can be quite quite a resource. (AI art in general) Especially for people like me who just need a little ‘inspiration’ to get started on an idea, then I can take the ball from there and create something unique.
In closing. I don’t think I would subscribe to Premium just for the magic canvas. Not for the reasons I use my GF. But for some people, as you can see in the contest thread, it may be worth it. Just remember - if you do decide to use it, as with all things in life (as we say around the office) don’t ask the question unless you really want to know the answer.
HL