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Previous episode Does an AI image generator keep the pictures it learned from?

How AI image generators make a picture from your words

Why AI pictures get writing and hands wrong

Ask an AI for a shop sign that says OPEN. The letters may not make any word. Ask for a hand, and it may have six fingers. Why do good image generators get these two things wrong?

  1. 1 Up close, the print on your newspaper is rows of shapes that look like letters, and you can hardly find a real word among them. Ask for a big headline, "SNOW DAY", and it can still come out wrong.you asked: SNOW DAYSNOOW DAYan example

    Up close, the print on your newspaper is rows of shapes that look like letters, and you can hardly find a real word among them. Ask for a big headline, "SNOW DAY", and it can still come out wrong.

  2. 2 Hands are no better. Ask for a person waving, and researchers keep finding pictures like this one: a finger too many. The fur and the snow of your fox came out fine, yet four letters and five fingers trip the same model up.6fingersan example

    Hands are no better. Ask for a person waving, and researchers keep finding pictures like this one: a finger too many. The fur and the snow of your fox came out fine, yet four letters and five fingers trip the same model up.

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