I actually thought there were some interesting things revealed here. Particularly interesting to me were the Nevermind and Abbey Road results.
Nevermind because it showed this weakness in the model in understanding what a dollar bill is. The most novel result being the image where the baby's visage appears inside the dollar.
Regarding Abbey Road, I found it interesting that the model's concept of a public person spans their lifetime evidenced by the images where the contemporary images are used. Also interesting to me is the model's weakness in understanding specific people.
Then again though, I haven't been clicking on every DALL-E post so maybe this is old news.
For me, what was interesting to see was that it didn't manage very well with the Abbey Road question.
I had imagined that some parts of the training data would consist of the actual image, and it would find a good match for it somewhere deep into it's artificial consciousness.
It has no concept of The Beatles or Abbey Road or zebra crossings or perspective or creative composition in photography, so effectively it just mashes up some results from an image search.
If it created something very close to the original it would be overfitting. So it flails around rather randomly in photos-of-Beatles+Zebra+Abbey Road space. The results are novel, but they're also monstrous, distorted, and unartistic.
Says who? Maybe you don’t like the style, maybe it is derivative, but it is definitely artistic, as you allude to by saying it is novel. Monstrous and distorted can be a style.
I thought https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanNq6sXkAENyU5.jpg was really interesting, because the LEGO logo is not a 100% faithful reproduction even though the LEGO logo is so ubiquitous - showing that the images are generated.
Maybe it would have done better if the prompt had been "Four men - George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon - striding across a zebra crossing situated on Abbey Road, outside EMI studios in London."
Nevermind because it showed this weakness in the model in understanding what a dollar bill is. The most novel result being the image where the baby's visage appears inside the dollar.
Regarding Abbey Road, I found it interesting that the model's concept of a public person spans their lifetime evidenced by the images where the contemporary images are used. Also interesting to me is the model's weakness in understanding specific people.
Then again though, I haven't been clicking on every DALL-E post so maybe this is old news.