One online commentator asked for teddy bears shopping for groceries in the style of ukiyo-e, and seemed impressed. Another wasn’t so happy; they’d ordered up an image of cats drinking soup in the style of Gustav Klimt (“The Kiss” is apparently a favourite picture). An earlier request, for a Formula One race on Mars in the style of Van Gogh, had produced something that looked like a rejected image for a home-produced cover of an album by a minor stoned-out 1970s band — but had apparently met with a reasonable amount of approval. Klimt’s soup-slurping cats, however, were not hitting the spot. “It didn’t look anything like ‘The Kiss’,” wailed the instigator.Now why, I wonder, could that be? The Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) facility Dall-E-2, which generates images according to a written description of a few words, should surely have been able to deliver the goods. Cats, soup, Klimt — where’s the problem?
一位网络评论人士要求制作一幅浮世绘(ukiyo-e)风格的泰迪熊逛杂货店图，而且似乎对成品非常满意。另一些人就没那么高兴了；他们要求制作一张古斯塔夫•克里姆特(Gustav Klimt)——《吻》(The Kiss)显然是他们最喜欢的画——风格的猫咪喝汤图。早些时候，有人要求制作一张梵高(Van Gogh)风格的火星上的一级方程式赛车图，成品看起来像是被拒掉的70年代小乐队自制专辑封面——但显然得到了相当多认可。然而，克里姆特风格的喝汤猫却未能合人心意。提出制作要求的人哀叹道：“它看起来一点儿也不像《吻》。”