You could wear this in Sainsbury's and
get only admiration.
What it is is more output from ChatGPT4, a continuation
of
Saturday's dialogue.
One of
my corsets is the leather waistcoat
I described there.
It's great for posture, as it pulls the shoulders
back. I'd seen similar items referred
to as bodysuits, and I asked ChatGPT4 to
show me one for a man. It did, this:
Having established that ChatGPT4 in conjunction
with DALL-E could draw this kind of
corset in isolation,
I asked it for:
"a man wearing such a corset as part of
a complete outfit. The corset should be worn over a puffy shirt with
long gathered leg-of-mutton sleeves. Its wearer should also be wearing a
voluminous velvet skirt, of luxurious smooth sheened velvet adorned with
electric blue lightning flashes. The corset should be tight soft
black leather, with one lightening flash centrally placed. The puffy
shirt should have a colour or colours which harmonise with these. The
man should be 6 foot 4 tall with a 25 inch waist and blond hair."
The result was this:
What's going on here?
Current "AI" drawing programs are not terribly good at
relationships. They don't really understand words such as "on" and "at".
Consequently, they tend to "leak" attributes and components, losing them
or putting them in the wrong place or with the wrong object.
They are also not good with sequences of repeated items such as buttons
and the peg-and-eye fasteners on the front of a corset. When I asked
ChatGPT4 to draw "a table. On it is a red brick. On the red brick, is a
green brick. To the left of the red brick is a blue brick. To the left
of the blue brick is a violet brick. On the violet brick is a carmine
pyramid", it produced this:
The colours are there, and so are the tabletop and the
pyramidality. But the bricks are certainly not arranged in the way
I specified. And something similar has happened with
my design. There is an attribute of leatherness, but it has
leaked into the shirt. The front of the corset
appears to have some kind of silver fastener,
but it also has lacing, which would normally
be at the back. I don't see any flashes on the skirt;
and that on the corset is not central. Nevertheless,
it's a striking outfit, and one I'd happily try.
And "AI" programs will improve — there
are some very clever people trying to
overcome their limitations.
Going back to dress, ChatGPT4's picture
didn't show the man's feet. I asked for
one that did, but this drifted the
design considerably. The puffiness of the
leg-of-mutton sleeves is leaking
into the legs, trousers are appearing,
and on the back of the third
figure, a flash continues from corset
to skirt:
I then asked for a real-world setting: the
shelves in Sainsburys, shopping for
a jar of Sun-Pat peanut butter and a tin of baked beans.
Would the context tone down the design?
It does tone down the exuberant volume, but the
guy looks too heroic. His hair
is unmessed, but still, you'd expect to see him conquering dragons,
not chasing discounts. So:
"Make the man be putting the peanut butter jar in
a Sainsburys shopping trolley. Keep his blond hair, and keep his outfit
exactly as it is. But make the face a bit rounder, with scholarly
black-framed round glasses. The hair should be a little bit messy, as at
the end of a working day."
I then tried to restore the costume to the original topic:
"Give the man a long corset as in the previous image, but keep the
rest of the attire."
But:
"The man in the image above that has a calmer, rounder, less morose face."
I'm eagerly awaiting the time when we understand the mathematical space inhabited by these programs well enough to ask for conceptual search-and-replace: change the face, or change the skirt, but leave all else the same. That will come. In the meantime, one can still generate some stunning designs.