28 July 2023

Representations

Playing around with Microsoft Image Creator, I put in the titles of some of my favourite blogs along with a simple further instruction. Take the image above for example - here I added  "in the style of Grant Wood". Can you tell which blog it represents? Answers at the bottom of this post.

For this one I added "in the style of Maud Lewis":-

This one is "in the style of Beryl Cook":-

This one is "in the style of Frida Kahlo":-

This one is "in the style of Rembrandt":-

And finally, this one is simply "as an acrylic painting":-

Which blogs were they?
(a) "Bless Our Hearts"  (b)"Hiawatha House"  (c) "From My Mental Library"
(d) "Oddball Observations" (e) "Going Gently" (f) "I Should Be Laughing"

31 comments:

  1. I often use "in the style of Grant Wood" because I like that style but it has problems with fingers. It has made me ponder if Grant would was a bit ambiguous when it came to number of fingers.

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    1. Yes I have seen that too.

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    2. The AI has multiple issues with arms, hands and fingers in all kinds of styles - not least when making someone hold something. And it struggles with legs and feet and sitting positions as well, sometimes...

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  2. These are fascinating! I read a couple of these blogs and still didn't guess them.

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    1. Sometimes you have to keep adjusting your instructions to Microsoft Image Creator.

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  3. i wonder what it would create if you first used chatGPT to summarise the blog?
    I like all the images, especially the first, except for the creepy eyes

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    1. I have not asked ChatGPT to summarise a particular blog. I might try that.

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  4. I was a bit afraid to open this.

    I could have perhaps connected the last one. The last two are the only blogs we have in common.

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    1. You should dip into "Bless Our Hearts" - so well written.

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  5. Fun post but I didn't get Hiawatha House!

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    1. That is your blog Red and Maud Lewis had a very colourful style.

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  6. I guessed (a) and (c) but that's all. I don't think (b), (d), and (e) make sense.

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    1. It is dangerous to question Artificial Intelligence Ellen.

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  7. For some odd reason I'm attracted to that last one ....

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  8. I wouldn't have known which blogs they represented at all. I do like that colourful house, it looks like it is made of licorice allsorts.

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    1. Maud Lewis was a very interesting naive artist.

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  9. Of course I guessed that the picture with the book shelves was supposed to represent my blog - funny! Try Librarian With Secrets and see what the AI comes up with then.
    By the way, it‘s Frida Kahlo, not Karlo.

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    1. Thanks for the correction. It's nice when friends can correct each other without any sense of point scoring. I hope you didn't mind "in the style of Beryl Cook". That lady in the picture could be you if you eat at "Oliver's Pantry" every day for a year.

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  10. Would mine be Hogarth's Gin Lane?

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    1. I looked at yours in the style of L.S.Lowry.

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  11. Interesting results, but I don't think I would have recognised any of the blogs from the interpretations.

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    1. Ay-aye, the connections are not always obvious.

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    1. It is fun to play around with Microsoft Image Creator. Try it at work Mr Penguin.

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  13. This is crazy! I am not sure AI grasps the subtle nuances of the phrase "Bless Our Hearts."

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    1. Are there subtle nuances? Two people praying in a field seemed to sum up "Bless Our Hearts" perfectly - thanks to virtual Grant Wood.

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  14. The only one of these I feel at all qualified to comment on is "in the style of Maude Lewis" as she was a Nova Scotian artist and I grew up knowing her works. And based on that I have to say that the representation here did not capture her style at all. It was an interesting experiment, though, and shows the sometimes vast limitations of AI.

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  15. Oops, misspelled Maud ... which shows the limitations of my proofreading too :)

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  16. Image Creator still has trouble with hands, I see. I like the one for "Hiawatha House" though I had no idea who Maude Lewis is/was.

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