226 Dilly DALL-E

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Ever wondered what a skateboarding panda in a leather jacket on a beach looks like? Neither have we really - but someone has. What about a Willem Dafoe Pez Dispenser or a portable toilet on the surface of the moon?

This week we provide an update on AI image generating tools and some of the weird and wonderful prompts people feed them.

Links from the show: OpenAI DALL-E 2 and examples Midjourney and examples Google Imagen DALL-E mini and examples

Weird, dark and just plain wrong DALL-E-mini-generated images: Jesus installing insulation in his attic / Fisher Price My First Bong / Steve Irwin finds a fax machine / Willem Dafoe Pez Dispenser / A portable toilet on lunar surface / IKEA Chernobyl / Gordon Ramsay sinking in quicksand / JFK Assasination Lego set / McFuneral / Concentration camp for furries / Bob Ross painting with blood / Ricky Gervais putting a baby in the microwave / Finding Nemo sushi / Mark Zuckerberg as a ventriloquist dummy

Pick of the week: AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Quifan

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock https://twitter.com/Ade968, Eimear King https://www.instagram.com/apostroph__e/, Jeremiah Chechik https://www.chechik.com/, Chris Marquardt https://chrismarquardt.com/

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