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AI movie posters
- petee 5y agoThis is neat! I was fairly surprised when a few that were instantly in my mind were actually correct - Back to the Future, and Wizard of Oz, Ghost Busters, Big Lebowski, to name a few. And I don't think its simply because of the likelihood of guessing a popular movie, as many of the titles I've never heard of. Although some are a giveaway by their content and focusing on an obvious subject - Ghost Busters has clear ghosts; Hurt Locker has a bunch of bomb-disposal guys. Others like Edward Sissorhands, have no giveaways but just embody the style; I'd love to see the descriptions provided to the AI
- JimDabell 5y ago> I'd love to see the descriptions provided to the AI Unless the descriptions were particularly detailed, I would expect that a lot of this comes from the training data and the descriptions are just prompts for the model to recall which film it is. For instance, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) is clearly based on this real poster: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Póster-Online-Willy-Chocolate-Factory/dp/B008CG5BSA https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Póster-Online-Willy-Chocolate-Fa... This seems less “generate a poster from a description” and more “recall half-memorised posters“.
- TillE 5y agoThat makes much more sense, pretty typical usage of ML as a blunt instrument. The interesting thing to do, I think, would be to have data set of general images, and use a movie description to pull from those images.
- minimaxir 5y agoDue to how VQGAN + CLIP works, it can't memorize its inputs in the way language models like GPT-3 do. VQGAN does the generation work, CLIP just says if it's good not, improve the latents, repeat. Here's a good technical writeup: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqgan/ https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqg... And of course, the most-common VQGAN was trained on ImageNet, which likely doesn't have every movie poster as training data. (it could be in CLIP though)
- jcims 5y agoWould be interesting to see how well the newer CLIP guided diffusion model works. This is a collection of what it generates with the prompt 'mad max alien spacecraft landed in the desert' https://i.imgur.com/A1sAaev.jpg https://i.imgur.com/A1sAaev.jpg
- JimDabell 5y agoWhat do you suppose the mechanism is for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory image having a golden ticket held aloft by somebody’s right hand, with a person in a purple outfit and top hat? The page says: > a brief text description of a movie However apart from the existence of a golden ticket, I wouldn’t expect those details to make it into a brief description of the film. And yet there’s an original poster matching those details that the VQGAN + CLIP generated image seems to draw from.
- stncls 5y agoEven more convincing to me is the face of John Malkovich being on the poster of Being John Malkovich. Unless the description includes a pretty accurate description of his face (hairstyle, gender, age, facial hair, skin color), the model must have encountered his appearance in its training set.
- hoseja 5y ago>(hairstyle, gender, age, facial hair, skin color) That's not enough for reconstructing the face of John Malkovich from text, you need minute facial feature parameters (eye shape, nose shape, eye-nose distances etc etc)
- corysama 5y agoBecause he is famous on the Internet, CLIP “knows” what John Malkovich looks like. Or, more accurately: what an image people would label “John Malkovich” feels like.
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- cecilpl2 5y agoThe same for me - I got 6 correct with some thought, but three of them were instant ideas (less than a second), and those ones were always right: Cast Away, Space Jam, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- mc32 5y agoTo me they are too glowy and they have a weird thing that looks like a mix of chromatic aberration and color bleed when the registration is off.
- sdenton4 5y agoMy high point was correctly identifying 'Call me by Your Name.' Thought process: "Making out on a beach? Oh that looks like an Italian flag!"
- mrits 5y agoWizard of Oz was one I instantly got but didn't know why. I'm not sure the reason... The matrix I answered as John Wick, which is pretty interesting. Fear and Loathing was the other I got but I only tried 10.
- marcodiego 5y agoThe Wizard of Oz is very recognizable by the witch, the tornado and the house flying in the tornado.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoIt’s the only one I got. :(
- mrits 5y agoYeah after looking at it closer. I was amused as I thought Wizard of Oz before I realize what the shapes were.
- petee 5y agoFor me those are not objects upon individual examination except the house - the witch is barely identifiable as a witch; its generally a triangle body with a hat not at all shaped like a witch's typical pointy one. There are cloud forms, but I'd be hard pressed to call them a tornado. Only when I take in the whole image in-general do I see them, but to focus on specific areas, definitely not. The way people's brains are analyzing and picking apart these images differently is fascinating to me
- topkai22 5y agoI picked "The Terminator" for the Matrix one, which I thought was thematically close. I'm pretty impressed and amused by this.
- gillytech 5y agoI instantly thought "Matrix" when I saw that one and I suspect it's because I never saw John Wick or many films like that since.
- sandos 5y agoI thought the Back to the future one was Bladerunner... :)
- samizdis 5y ago> Others like Edward Sissorhands, have no giveaways but just embody the style When I looked at that one, I actually "saw" a figure holding distorted scissors imagery. Trippy stuff!
- slig 5y agoMe too! I just knew right away.
- ddtaylor 5y agoNope! That's a fever dream.
- version_five 5y agoThese are very cool. I didn't get any of them, but paired with the titles, many could be art. I'd like to understand what the training set was, and what prompts were given. Some, like space jam and willy Wonka, seem like they must be accessing images from those movies that were in the training set.
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- mhh__ 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu2YRywmsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu2YRywmsI This is the roughly the same idea but applied to the Lyrics of Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel. It's very fascinating to watch and almost empathize with the computer as to how it joined these concepts together (i.e. "bullets fly" ends up like a kind of bullet-hummingbird type creature)
- trsohmers 5y agoI have no idea how, but I actually guessed The Prestige... for some reason I just thought it reminded me of a Tesla Coil. Field of Dreams was a guess just based on it looking like a baseball field. I'm pretty impressed by ones like Ferris Bueller's Day Off having what I'm pretty sure is the Cubs logo and Wrigley Field, plus Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure having multiple phonebooths.
- verve_rat 5y agoTo my eye it looks like the Bill and Ted one is trying to include multiple blue police boxes. I'm assuming the movie description included "time travelling phone box" or something like that and the AI generated a bunch of Tardises.
- Aeolun 5y agoGot one. I guess it’s clear, we don’t need any more movie poster designers. I would have appreciated some more recent ones though. I don’t quite remember all movies from the 80s.
- nnf 5y agoI'm not sure why I got the ones I did, but I got Cast Away, Space Jam, Willy Wonka, National Treasure, Being John Malkovich, and Star Wars. Not sure if they got easier toward the bottom or if I started catching on after viewing the answers as I went down the page. These images make me wonder what the "brief text description" is for each.
- kaycebasques 5y agoI definitely noticed that it got easier for me after 3-4 tries. I got a sense for how the computer was depicting stuff.
- hakuseki 5y agoØyvind Thorsby also published a similar (somewhat easier) quiz a couple weeks ago: https://thorsbyprojects.tumblr.com/post/660029925870518272/ai-generated-art-movie-quiz https://thorsbyprojects.tumblr.com/post/660029925870518272/a...
- continuational 5y ago> I typed in movie titles and below is the art I got. It's clearly impossible to end up with a white haired man and a Delorian from the words "Back to the Future", so it likely has way, way more information about the movie than the title. Possibly even movie posters. I think it's a bit misleading.
- molf 5y agoThe training set could have included images from or related to the movie? It's a cult classic, so it does not seem entirely unlikely to me.
- Hammershaft 5y agoI'd say I got ~%20 of them right. Some really interesting images out of them. The one for mad max is beautiful.
- captaincrowbar 5y agoIn the poster for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, it looks like the AI caught "time travel" and "phone booth" and tried to draw a whole bunch of TARDISes.
- comex 5y agoBack to the Future has what looks like a TARDIS as well. Although… so does The Matrix, for some reason. Phone booths did play a minor role in that movie, but I kind of doubt that’s the reason. It would be interesting to see the exact text given as the prompt for each movie.
- jldugger 5y agoIMO it looks like a booth with ads for iphones on them. It just has no idea what a phone booth is.
- kaycebasques 5y agoIt was less fun for me because I haven't seen many of those movies. If it were 100% classics it would be more fun IMO. Not classic as in old, just most popular. On the other hand who gives a shit what I think. This person probably just generated the images for their favorite movies. For the ones I did know, I almost always could see a similarity to the "feel" of the movie. But the Rear Window one?? What happened there? Didn't capture the "feel" whatsoever IMO. Of course there are windows but it looks more like a backalley in Japan. The color palette is way off. Tangentially related, this AI image generation account on Twitter never ceases to fascinate me. Many of the photos are seeded with an initial image however, which reduces the magic/specialness for me a bit: https://twitter.com/images_ai https://twitter.com/images_ai
- aidenn0 5y agoThe color palette is definitely off, but it does capture the sense of looking out a window into other windows. Given that it was primed with a description, it's not surprising that it couldn't get the right colors.
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- junon 5y agoAgreed, I only knew a handful of these films. Nonetheless, this was super fun.
- bawolff 5y agoI love the art style. I think it works especially well for dystopias
- motohagiography 5y agoThe ambiguity between the bag of pills and typewriter against a backdrop of the strip is pretty uncanny. I would like to use this tool and models for blog post hero image art.
- scardycat 5y agoPretty cool but no dice for me. First I was intrigued but then they all looked the same. I saw a lot of these movies and tried to relate to the poster, but I could not. Then I thought , would I watch the movie if this were the poster on Netflix or Prime or at a theater and I knew I would not. It feels very much like abstract art, which I don't particularly enjoy. I also missed the personal connection and the prompt I get from seeing human faces, actors I like and enjoy.
- camjohnson26 5y agoI’ve seen most of the movies and could only guess a few, usually by identifying some specific image in the poster and then deducing the movie, like the ghosts and library for Ghostbusters. Some did a better job of getting the look and feel down, for example I said Forest Gump for Field of Dreams, which are pretty similar.
- RegW 5y ago> but then they all looked the same Yes, I think I detect a definate bias towards a Picasso/cartoonesque style :-) Even Dr Stangelove is in colour. I think our jobs are safe for the forseeable future.
- lxe 5y agoWhat were the prompts for each poster?
- cheshire137 5y agoThis was really cool. I was able to guess I think seven of them correctly. Some I didn’t even know why I thought of the movie, I just had the impression and it turned out to be right.
- gjs278 5y agoI got every single one I was confident enough to hit view answer on correctly, which was six of them. I am leaving the rest unknown.
- fridif 5y agoI got 5 right. Harold and Kumar, Space Jam, Cast Away, Willy Wonka, and Fear and Loathing. I feel like the prompts were generated off of movie frames? Space Jam for example was very obviously containing cartoons wearing Space Jam jerseys
- mrlatinos 5y agoThe show answer button doesn't work on Brave mobile
- ungamedplayer 5y agoLodge a bug.
- erdo 5y agoAn image summary of a movie maybe, not a movie poster though. Almost all posters feature the faces of the characters very prominently (presumably in order of screen time) that seems to have been skipped completely
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- slg 5y agoSome of these are just bizarre in how effective they are. I have never picked up the book or watched the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I probably couldn't have told you anything about them beyond what was included in the text description the AI got. Yet I instantly knew that was the movie. I could even envision a few of these as art work for a special edition blu-ray or something.
- olliej 5y agoNo :)
- tobr 5y agoThat was fun! I got 16 right, if I’m allowed to count the wrong Willy Wonka and Mad Max. Many of the movies I didn’t get I’ve not seen and only barely heard of, so I certainly relied on guessing on famous movies where the themes in the picture are prominent.
- suction 5y agoThis would be so much better if we knew the description fed into the "AI".
- a1371 5y agoMy best (frankly uneducated) guess would be that they trained the model with famous movie posters as the objective, and still frames of the movie as the training data. Then they gave frames of these movies to the ai to get a poster out.
- Krasnol 5y agoIt would be interesting if the AI would be fed the whole movie and create a poster based upon the scenery, characters and locations.
- gillytech 5y agoI had a ton of fun with this one! There is something sort of magic about these images. The satisfaction I felt when I saw a picture and instantly had a thought that turned out to be correct was really refreshing. It's not the same feeling you get when you put a lot of effort into solving a problem and eventually getting there, but more of an artistic sense. Interesting.
- marcus_holmes 5y agoSo... this is clearly Art (with a capital A). If I'd been told this was the work of a new artist, I'd believe it, and I'd think they were talented. What does that mean for the philosophy of Art? Art is meant to communicate emotion [0] but how can something that has no emotion communicate it? And if we exclude this from being Art because of that, then how do we tell "real" Art from this, when there's nothing to distinguish between them? What happens to Art when you can get an off-the-shelf ML algorithm to produce original, creative, works like this on demand? And what happens to commercial artists and illustrators once we train the algorithm to do their job? Though that's not all bad - Art could become a hobby done for the joy of creating, rather than a profession done to make money. Interesting times. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion
- andyjohnson0 5y ago> And what happens to commercial artists and illustrators once we train the algorithm to do their job? Perhaps the same as what happened to artisans such as some makers of furniture, shoes, and bespoke cloting. They charge a premium for the "authenticity" of their products. Artisanal, single-source, small batch art.
- marcus_holmes 5y agoYeah true. Obvious question, really. And I guess we'll all face this question sooner or later...
- eloeffler 5y agoI think it's rather interesting how this tech will change the work of human artists. By itself, AI art remains somehow limited in its development. Decorative art creators might be threatened. But they'e been threatened by reprints for a long time. Political/philosophical art not so much as they are more cognitive and require the artist's societal involvement in some way (even as outcasts). These AIs generate a specific style of art and you can put it up on your wall as you can put up a reprint of human art. But when they're used with purpose, they can become tools of human artists.
- SunlightEdge 5y agoSo obvious. I got all the answers correct. Mind blown.
- f137 5y agoYou're a bot, ain't you?
- Harzza 5y agoWith many pictures I instantly got the feeling of what the movie is without really realising why. Could this be because the AI is probably trained with human made pictures from ex. flickr (in most cases after the movie), so the AI will generate pictures that basically resemble how people see/remember the movies? For example the very strong color scheme in Miami Vice, which is basically 100% something that emerged in popular culture after the movie. So when the AI is generating the pictures based on the plot, could it be deep down generating the pictures partly based on how we people remember the movie?
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- iforgotpassword 5y agoTo me the wizard of Oz was very obvious and I've never seen the movie, just children's books and maybe a few screenshots. But it's still strange; for example ocean's eleven was immediately my first thought for the according image, but I don't even know why. I don't recognize anything specific in that image, and it doesn't have a distinct set of colors either.
- hoseja 5y agoPeople in tuxedos, with guns and piles of cash.
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- jjeaff 5y agoThis was exactly my experience. On many, my first thought was the correct movie. Very interesting.
- saberience 5y agoI had the opposite experience, I couldn't identify any. Maybe I'm going senile.
- wesleywt 5y agoThe Mad Max one is pretty close.
- f137 5y agoIndeed. The only one I've got right
- antirez 5y agoThere are signs of memorization of images (or text describing them) from the actual movies. Like in Wall-E and Matrix, you can see, more or less, the robot shape and the green-digits wall in Matrix.
- puttycat 5y agoRight. Moreover, it’s visibly memorizing specific images from the movies themselves. It’s very evident for Midsommar and Mad Max, where the renderings contain very idiosyncratic images from these movies which I can’t imagine emerging from mere descriptions of them. So I can only assume that the synopses for these movies contained the actual movie names.
- bvm 5y agoand definitely Space Jam!
- f137 5y agoWell. I guessed just one of them - Mad Max. However I've seen probably not more than 10 of those movies, so it's 10% success rate. Not so bad ))
- Edd314159 5y agoThe Point Break one is fantastic.
- auggierose 5y agoIt's cool as something generated by an AI, but quite poor in terms of art. I don't like them, and they are boring.
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- sparsely 5y agoImpressed by the prominence of the peaches in the Call By My Name poster.
- darepublic 5y agoI guessed fury road, fear and loathing, national treasure, Malkovich Malkovich and a handful of others. For some the posters resemble scenes from the movie, others seem to more literally express the title. To me these scream AI generated they remind me a lot of the gan generated visual dreams...
- pavlovskyi 5y agoI observed that kind of experiments for a long time, it is catchy, relatively easy to implement and it gives that feeling that artificial intelligence create something by itself. But as long as it will stricly dependent of distribution of the data that we put in it, It will always be some kind of less or more visible modification of input data.
- aazaa 5y agoIt was surprisingly easy to see the connection to the movie after the fact. But I could guess none of the titles just from the poster.
- zzt123 5y agoWhile I had no success in guessing the movie from the image, I had more success in themes - choosing the images I found the most attractive and discovering to my surprise that they strongly tended to be for movies I liked the most.
- bovermyer 5y agoThe one for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas could actually be a cover image for that movie. It's perfect.
- NoGravitas 5y agoHonestly, I would like to see movie posters made by 5-year-olds that were given a short description of a movie. It wouldn't be the same as this, but it would be interesting in a similar way.
- vages 5y agoI got nine of them right. SPOILERS BELOW I got most of them by looking at either landscapes or color palettes. In some cases, certain characters were actually visible in the collage. Wizard of Oz, Ghost Busters, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mad Max: Fury Road, Office Space, Space Jam, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, National Treasure, Star Wars.
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- mistersquid 5y agoSpoiler alert: var answers = document.querySelectorAll('.button'); answers.forEach( answer => { answer.click(); });
- calmworm 5y agoI would like to see the actual "brief text description of a movie" given to the AI for each image, too.
- forix 5y agoThis was kind of fun for me. Guessed 12 of the movies.