I started posting on Less Wrong in 2011, learned about effective altruism, and four years later landed in the Bay Area. I was an ICU nurse in my past life, did several years of EA direct work in operations roles, and now write for Vox Future Perfect.
You can find my fiction here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Swimmer963
“A Rube Goldberg machine made out of candy, Sigma 85mm f/1.4 high quality photograph”
I’ve been experimenting with some style prompts suggested on Twitter, so have “A complex Rube Goldberg machine, Sigma 85mm f/1.4 high quality photograph”
“Cute White Cat Plushie On A Bed, 4K resolution, amateur photography”
Slightly modified because ‘shooting’ is a banned keyword: “A cartoon honey badger wearing a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu GI with a black belt, jumping in for a wrestling takedown”
“Aliens are conducting experiments on human subjects, as a screenshot from the movie Prometheus” came out weirdly video-game-esque?
“Aliens are conducting experiments on human subjects, as a medieval painting”
And this didn’t come out all that medieval-style, so I tried again with “Aliens are conducting experiments on human subjects, as a medieval illuminated manuscript”
“Aliens are conducting experiments on human subjects, as a screenshot from South Park”
“A 3D rendering of the number 5”
“Number 8”. Huh I think these are almost all street numbers on houses/buildings?
“The letters X Y and Z” ok it’s starting to get confused here.… (My prediction is that it’ll manage the number 8 and number 5 in the next prompts, but if I try a 3-digit number it might flail).
Let’s see!
“The letter A”
“A little forest gnome leaving through his magic book—beautiful and detailed illustration”
“A piggo-saurus—an illustration of a pig-like dinosaur”
“A piggo-saurus—a pig-like dinosaur—hyper realistic art”
“A wild boar and an angel walking side by side along the beach—beautiful hyperrealistic art”
Yeah, no, it just gives me...cats.
Tweaked the prompt multiple times and this is the best I got re: tights and not stockings, I think DALL-E just has very strong priors on “stockings” going with this art style. “Girl wearing a beautiful white dress over white leggings. She is beside another happy girl with black hair wearing a dress over black leggings. The sun is behind the two, dramatic lighting, Anime fanart, safebooru, deviantart, advanced digital art settings, behance 8k super-quality beautiful”
Yeahhhh, as I expected DALL-E cannot super follow the negation here. (We also tried to ask it for “a stop sign, spelled incorrectly” and it just gave us stop signs.)
Ooooh! Yeah, definitely much more fantasy fan art style.
“A group of happy people does Circling and Authentic Relating in a park”