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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • A few things that I’ve found help:

    • Increase the resolution. Even when that shouldn’t help, it does, if that makes sense.
    • In the negative prompt, describe types of images that aren’t photos. Anime, render, cartoon, etc.
    • In the positive prompt, describe a detail that you would only find in a highly detailed image. Some people just write “highly detailed,” but that does jack shit because no one’s out there tagging photos as “highly detailed.” Or they’ll say “8k resolution,” which works, but it’s too limiting and it’ll throw off the style too much. In this case, I included “sweaty skin.” A photo that captures the texture of skin is going to be highly detailed, and those photos will become the AI’s source material. This has the side effect of making the composition rather tightly framed, but that worked here.












  • I referenced a real person that not many people were likely to know: Georgia Ellenwood. That’s kind of a gray area. It’s not illegal, but you could say it’s nonconsensual, which isn’t good either. Although some people do deepfake celebrities, my intent wasn’t to imitate her exactly, but rather to use that prompt as a way of styling the type of person. Since it isn’t really an accurate likeness of her, I felt comfortable posting it.



  • A couple reasons, IMO.

    First, hands are just super complex in the first place; it’s why they’re also hard for humans to draw. The geometry is super complex—there are tons of bones and tendons, they move in a million different ways, and they look completely different at different angles.

    It also has to do with how AI works. It has to extrapolate information from a vast data set, and with all that hand complexity we were just talking about, the AI can’t get “consensus” on what hands are supposed to look like. So, it does its best and it averages out all the different possibilities. That works with a palm tree—its not important if that has 20 fronds or 25—but it has no way of knowing that it IS important for there to be 4 fingers and a thumb on each hand.