A bit more absurdism, because one of the most important purposes of art to me is just plain unbridled silliness and AI is really fun for that.
These were also partially me testing out Karlo - I wanted to see how well it worked with absurdist prompts in natural language, comparing my results to Stable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion is...not great about understanding numbers, or composition, or how to parse a described scene, and when I do AI absurdism, I like to minimize the amount of prompt engineering I have to do to get a decent, if bizarre and wonky, result. (I have a whole Target Range of AI Wonk for this kind of thing; if it's so wonky it's incoherent that's a no-go, but if it's so perfect and polished you don't look at it and pretty immediately know This Base Image Was Made By An Inanimate Object That Does Not Understand Its Absurdity, that's a no-go too.) Craiyon is good about it - it's the continuation of an early DALL-E model after all - but it is small and limited and I've grown to prefer open-source models where available. Karlo uses the same kind of architecture as DALL-E 2, so that sounded promising and I had to play around with the demo a bit.
Just the low-res demo gave me three out of four of these and I'm going to have a lot of fun assembling this garden of absurdity in meatspace. I think I'll be having a lot of fun with Karlo.
A highly detailed digital painting of a T-rex riding a vespa through a forest of giant flowers (generated with Simple Stable)
Baroque painting of a unicorn on a skateboard in a highly detailed garden of colorful flowers
Highly detailed digital oil and airbrush painting of a jackalope with tree branches for antlers on a hoverboard in a garden of pink flowers at midnight
Highly detailed digital oil painting of an anomalocaris princess hosting a tea party in a garden of pink flowers
