AI: Nightcafé

Nightcafé draws the birds

Experimenting with AI bird images

Moving away from AI text, I’m going to address Dr. Preeti’s prompt on birds, this time using AI.

I’ve found a new image generator called NightCafé that has just an awesome array of tools, a thriving community, and some amazing output creations.

Follow along with me as I explore the possibilities:

As with all of these things, you fire it up, find that you've been allocated a couple of free credits, and just type in a few words on your chosen subject. NightCafé goes a step further than most in that you can generate NSFW images, so if I can work out how to do this I might give myself a fabulous body.

So far I haven’t puzzled out how to do this but judging by the work of others it can be done. Stay tuned.

For the birds

I love looking at birds. Listening to them, watching them fly, admiring their grace and colours. Parrots are just gorgeous.

So for my first attempts, I went with parrots.

Well, okay. Kind of a weird bicycle, and one bird lined up for the eye ration a second time but it has a charm to it, yeah?

I did better with the bird on the binos prompt, choosing a totally different style. Kind of steampunky.

Each prompt gives me four images, each using a different seed. Birdseed, in this case.

I had other attempts.

As you can see, I need to work on my skills a little more but there is definitely promise.

The big attraction of AI for content writing

There are three big pluses:

1. The image can be crafted precisely to your content. You can even upload a seed image — your smiling face, for example — and make it something new. Turn it into a watercolour.
2. The image is unique. Nobody else will have downloaded and used it before. Some popular images from Unsplash get used over and over.
3. The image is free. At least if you don’t go overboard. Most of these sites give you a certain daily allowance.

And, for this topic, I don’t have to wrangle exotic birds for a photoshoot.

Here’s the same thing with a watercolour effect:

Or something similar using the same prompts but a different seed:

4. It’s fun. I had a ball playing around with all this cool stuff!

So, while AI text is kind of bland and generic, AI images can be the exact opposite. Give these things a go, see how you go, share your results!

Duncan Klein

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