Waking Nightmare Simulator 2022: The DALL-E AI Image Generator

[The Rogue Wolf]

So AI has made some amazing leaps and bounds over the years- it writes scripts, tells jokes and creates recipes. And now AI is foraying into the world of art, with one such effort known as DALL-E, which can take any text prompt and generate an image based on it (though it's, uh, "creative" in its interpretation). There's an online version known as DALL-E mini, a simpler version which has gotten a lot of attention from the Internet primarily by being a creator of nightmarish imagery. So after seeing it in a Markiplier video, I decided to give it a whirl myself.

Let's start off with something relatively easy:


That's... not bad, for the most part. (Don't ask me what's going on with that middle one, though.) Next:


I could use some of these as profile pictures, to be honest. Okay, let's try something more abstract:


Weird eyes aside, any one of those top three could really match the concept; that's pretty impressive. (That bottom right one, uh... yeah, I dunno.) Now, for something completely different:


Dante #4 has the right idea. The sleeve of a leather coat is more nutritious than anything you'd get from Subway.

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

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Joke's on you; I sold my soul in 1994 at a mall Cinnabon.

 

[Bedinsis]

I keep getting "Too much traffic, please try again." prompts.

Shame. I wanted to have nine images of "A parrot wearing a hat asking for directions".

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I keep getting "Too much traffic, please try again." prompts.

Yeah, since Markiplier's video the site's been getting hammered. Sometimes you can sneak requests in if you submit a few times in rapid succession.

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

There's an app in similar vein which generates procedural art when you type words and select a style. Got a couple of bored examples already;

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

This one I appreciate the most for its brutal honesty



First attempt, not very adventurous tbh, but it worked out regardless.



...


Huh



🤌

 

[Bedinsis]

I got it to work. Although I am not that impressed; I tried "A bird riding a dinosaur" and it mostly turned into images of dinosaurs riding birds. And they looked cursed.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

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This almost looks like a Daft Punk album cover.

 

[Baffle]

 

[Chimpzy]

Gentlemen, I give you:







And last, but not least...

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I would buy the print set of this.

 

[Thaluikhain]

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Next 4 are much the same as the first 4. Surprisingly boring.

 

[Drathnoxis]

It's not really very impressive. I tried a couple of things and it never really gave me what I asked for. This one was the most interesting.


I don't know what it is, but it's not what I asked for.

Edit: Uh huh...

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

Gentlemen, I give you:







And last, but not least...

Is rather unsettling how they managed to reproduce my Cronenbergian meat nightmares

 

[Chimpzy]

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Is rather unsettling how they managed to reproduce my Cronenbergian meat nightmares

Yeh, a bit Quato from Total Recall-y, but with about 700% more tiny naked middle-aged man fuckmelding into the side of another dude's face.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Today I tried experimenting with different characters wielding chainsaws to pretty good effect.

Spoiler

Gary is the clear winner, though. Also, I think he has a shotgun in one picture for some reason.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Bumping my own thread? Naw, I'd never do that. Just got a really weird idea at a quarter past midnight. Who hasn't?



Oddly enough, the weirdest thing to me is how it apparently decided to go with Adam West's Batman.

 

[Kyrian007]

What the hell is wrong with me? Couldn't help myself...

Well... that's something.

 

[Gordon_4]

Gentlemen, I give you:







And last, but not least...

Okay the Stalin in the middle row, left hand side, looks kind of like what I'd assume Muppet Stalin would look like.

Also: