The category cover theme for June 21st is “safety,” celebrating Ilya Sutskever’s departure from OpenAI to launch Safe Superintelligence Inc. This week’s prompts do not follow a consistent template. Instead, I used the first phrase that came to mind when associating safety with the category word.
For example,
“A man stands wearing protective ear covers. A jet engine roars next to him with the word ‘Audio’ on it,”
“A fire extinguisher with the word ‘AGI’ sits on the floor in a gorgeous classical library.”
I purposely aimed to be blunt and not overly descriptive with the prompts to see how well MidJourney performs for laypeople. The only rule of thumb was to put the most important element of the image first. MidJourney does OK with words, but by the time it combines a theme and my category, I feel I’ve used up most of its creative capacity. Adding text is usually the straw that breaks it.
I am still using the personalized parameter that MidJourney assigns based on the images I rate and rank. In theory, the tone and style will match the images I’ve picked. So far, I’ve rated about 500 images. I’m not sure about the chaos parameter. I usually stick to 40, but I will likely dial it down to 30 next week.
I’m giving my prompts this week a B+ and the MidJourney results a B-.
a fire extinquisher with the word “AGI” sits on the floor in a gorgeous classical library. –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8The Twitter logo wearing a diaper –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a stuntman on a horse on the set of a Western movie –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a safety cone with the word “Amazon” sits in front of an Amazon delivery truck. –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8safety tape with the word “Anthropic” protecting paintings in a fine art museum. –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8
a character from an old Atari video game leaps over alligators. a sign above him reads “virtual”. –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a character from an old Atari video game leaps over alligators. a sign above him reads “virtual”. –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a man stands wearing protecting ear covers. a jet engine roars next to him with the word “Audio” on it. –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8an office security guard with a name tag that reads “Business” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8A computer encased in layers of bubble wrap for protection. a label says “Chips” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a bottle of hand sanitizer labeled “Consumer” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8The Scales of Justice with piece of paper that reads “Ethics” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8airport security checkpoint, a sign reads “International”–chaos 40 –chaos 100 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8A CAPTCHA with the word “Meta” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a computer password prompt that says “Microsoft” –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a video security room full of televisions with the word ‘Multimodal” on them. –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a safe with a spiral printed on it, a label says “OpenAI” –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a burgular carrying a newspaper that reads “Perplexity” –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a recording studio has been looted. –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a news stand is locked securely for the evening. –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a clothing store is locked up for the night –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a robot wearing a bike helmet –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a scientific safety sign –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8a locked briefcase –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8
[…] The theme for this week’s category covers is “safety”. Each image attempts to incorporate a safety theme alongside the category name. MidJourney struggled with mixing concepts, and I’d give this week a C. As usual, I resist revisions and to test what MidJourney can muster with direct and simplistic prompts. […]
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