My AI art generator just gave me a nightmare fuel portrait of my cat

I was trying to make a cool fantasy portrait of my orange tabby, Mr. Biscuits, for a friend's birthday. I used a popular online tool and typed in 'a majestic lion with orange fur and green eyes, sitting on a throne, digital painting.' What I got back last night was... something else. It had seven legs, three eyes stacked vertically, and the throne looked like melted cheese. It was honestly kind of scary! I spent like an hour tweaking the prompt, adding negative keywords like 'extra limbs' and 'distorted,' but it kept giving me weird, broken anatomy. I finally gave up and just drew a silly cartoon myself. It makes me wonder how much control we really have over these tools. Has anyone else had an AI just completely fail to understand a simple animal prompt?

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casey1612d ago

Oh man, that's the perfect example of how these things just guess at shapes! It's not really "seeing" a lion or a cat, it's just mashing together pixels from pictures labeled with those words. So "lion" plus "throne" might pull from some weird old painting with a messed up perspective, and it has no idea how many legs a cat should have. It's just playing a really complicated game of copy the homework but change it a little.

jamiem3011d ago

Exactly, that "copy the homework" bit is why I get those weird extra fingers in every portrait.

nora_taylor7911d ago

Poor Mr. Biscuits deserved better than a cheese throne and extra legs. Casey16 is totally right about it just guessing shapes from a messy pile of pictures. You can tell it has no real idea what a lion or a throne actually is, just a bunch of parts to stick together. It's frustrating when you have a clear picture in your head and the tool gives you a puzzle from a different box. My attempts at making a simple dog portrait ended with a creature that had fur like spaghetti.