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Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by topoftheforts on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:19AM (#41655849)
You can do that with flux.1, it's the best image model right now as far as I'm aware, especially for dealing with text.

This is the result for "vegetables spelling out the word "HELLO"" I used flux-pro on Replicate https://ibb.co/1RVKmdk

Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by red1reaper on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:52AM (#41656453)
Wow, it used very intersting vegetables, the very common E shapped cucumber and of course, the commonplace O shapped Tomatoe with a void in the middle. Very usual vegetables, can buy them in any grocery store.
Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by ziddoap on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:02AM (#41657917)
Sometimes I wonder if anything can actually impress anyone on this site.

Words have plagued image gen since the start. Now there is an image model that, with an extremely simple prompt, does an awesome job with words.

If they expanded their prompt and played with a few seeds until an image with perfectly realistic vegetables were generated, I wonder what the next complaint would be.

Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by Workaccount2 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:46AM (#41658357)
People are threatened. They are not going to celebrate the thing that makes them irrelevant. They are going to talk shit about it and downplay it.
Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by longtimelistnr on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:03AM (#41659206)
im not sure if threatened is correct, i think it's more a collective "why?" And there hasn't been a particuarly convincing answer
Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by TillE on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:18AM (#41659375)
Right, tons of gen AI stuff is super impressive. It's really cool that we can do all this stuff. In this thread we're talking about a fun toy.

But the actual practical applications are like, small useful tools. There's no real sign we're heading for a world-changing trillion dollar industry.

Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by dools on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:22AM (#41655868)
Nice! I haven't had a go at flux yet but I'll keep that in my back pocket for the next time I need to spell a word using vegetables.
Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by thaumasiotes on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:26AM (#41655897)
When I see the prompt "the word HELLO spelled out in vegetables", I expect realistic vegetables being assembled into the appropriate shapes, such that e.g. the O is made of many different vegetables arranged in a circle.

I don't expect imaginary nightmare vegetables.

Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by hnbad on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:25AM (#41655893)
It got the letters right but none of the vegetables it used exist on this planet.
Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by kgeist on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:13AM (#41656219)
Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today by hnbad on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:45PM (#41674179)
Yeah, and notice how the emphasis on the word "unusual".