[FRIAM] Generative AI Images and 'stylization'

[Steve Smith]

glen wrote:

> I'm fond of eyeball attempts to determine whether images are from 
> generative AI. Your 1st one definitely looks like it. The 2nd one, I 
> can't tell. (It's cheating to look at the alt description or the 
> filename.) 
I'm far from an expert but I have spent a bit of time generating images 
for various (mostly useless purposes) and feel there must be some 
reserved, finite set of "stylizations" which even when overlayed or 
convolved-with overt stylizations (e.g. in the style of a dutch master), 
some kind of attractor or canalization get invoked.   I wonder if there 
is some sort of explicit or implicit taxonomies of stylization?
> But the very prominent slur on the coin kinda sorta gives it away. 
> DALL-E is obviously not very safe ... or maybe it's been trained on 
> too much UK/Aussie content.

I almost didn't share that one because of the implied perjorative... I 
forget what I asked for, I think it was "POTUS inscribed on the coin" 
but was not surprised a bit when it did something else entirely, and in 
fact I don't think it "knew" what it was writing... I generally ignore 
any specific language that gets included in DALL-E's hallucionations, 
they are so often illegible (including alphabets that probably don't 
align with any real human ones) and rarely properly spelled.  I also 
rarely try to get it to generate any text for this reason.   Even 
getting a "T" on the trump spoof-sneakers I generated was nearly 
impossible but one happy accident yielded a "T" that looked a lot like 
it had cyrillic origens.

The second image is very reminiscent of one of the regular New Yorker 
cartoonists (contemporary or past?) IMO.