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I tried to make Dall-E 2 draw "Santa giving a massage to a woman" (to personalize a gift certificate), and the results were bizarre. Mostly I got women giving S
by morsch 4y ago
I tried to make Dall-E 2 draw "Santa giving a massage to a woman" (to personalize a gift certificate), and the results were bizarre. Mostly I got women giving Santa a massage, but even those had worse artifacts than usual. When I adjusted the prompt to be more explicit as to who was giving the massage and who was receiving it, the results got increasingly weird.
With some finagling, I got an acceptable image, but it was much worse than I would have expected. On the other hand, the whole thing made for a funny story to tell when I was handing over the present.
https://imgur.com/a/3UWLBeV https://imgur.com/a/3UWLBeV
This is line art (because I wanted to print it in black and white), but the non-line-art style had the same issue. Also it's Saint Nicholas and not Santa, but I just confirmed that the issue still persists with Santa.
- londons_explore 4y agoI suspect Dall-E 2 has had some kind of 'negative training' for pornography... Ie. something beyond just filtering porn from the training set. Perhaps they put pornographic images through it with a reversed loss function? And A woman giving santa a massage is just too similar to a bunch of porn...
- jtbayly 4y agoYou've misread. Santa is supposed to be giving the massage, but instead the woman is in the generated output. If your assumption is correct about porn having lots of women massaging men, then these outputs point to positive training with porn, rather than negative.
- morsch 4y agoThe generated images also had almost all women wearing heels, wearing short skirts, showing cleavage, ...