Show Me Your Bloopers

Gitchore bloopers out! Whoop whoop etc. Asking the big questions like, Are elbow nipples obscene? TL;DR - the intelligence is artifical, but the stupid is real.

By L.C. SchäferPublished 3 years ago • 3 min read

The intelligence is artificial, but the stupid is real

I know lots of Vocal + members use AI to generate cover images for their stories here. (Not judging, I've done it as well. Sometimes, Unsplash just doesn't cut it. I did feel a bit dirty, though.)

Maybe you're just better at it than me, but many - most? - of the ones I come up with look a bit... off. Do you find the same?

I've only just started, so it's probably me. I'm betting you have more experience and et better results. Feel free to share your wisdom with me... Does it depend on which app you use, or is there a knack to wording the prompt to avoid confusing the artifical ~~stupidit~~ intelligence? Tell me your thoughts!

I don't intend to use it often enough to make it worth paying for one, so I use a free one. Maybe it's just that I am getting what I pay for.

If you're like me, you have to submit a dozen prompts, wording tweaked this way and that, and different styles tried... Not only to get something that matches your own hoped-for vision reasonably well, but even just to get an image of a creature that doesn't look deformed, or of a woman that doesn't have three knees, or nipples on her elbows. (Yes, that really happened. I've included it, keep scrolling 👇)

If any of this is resonating, I want to see the images that AI spat out for you that didn't make it. I think they're funny! Lots of us pop an "author's note" at the bottom of our stories. Can we make AI bloopers a regular feature as well?

Include the weirdest ones, or the ones that made you laugh.

Lots of us have beef with AI, and for good reason. I'm not going to get into the tangle of pros and cons and ethics here. That's for another post on another day, maybe.

I just want to have a bit of a laugh at AI's expense. It's a victimless crime.

Here's a few of mine:

These are all Moira bloopers. I didn't save the fails that I got when I was trying to get a decent dragon picture for The Baby. I wish I had. They were... not majestic. At all.

Not to body-shame but... bloody hell, what is going on with those out of proportion thighs? Nobody actually looks like that, right? Do they?

How many knees does one dangerous dream stalking woman need? I never thought I'd have to specify, "woman with only two knees" for AI, but here we are.

OK, here comes the elbow nipple! If absurd partial nudity of a not-real person is not something you are here to see, this is your chance to back out. Let me assure you that the nipple which would look more realistic is not really visible. There are some hella bare shoulders going on though.

Decolletage in three ... two ... one ...