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[epistemic disclaimer. VERY SPECULATIVE, but I think there's useful signal in the noise.]
As of a few days ago, GPT-4o now supports image generation. And the results are scarily good, across use-cases like editing personal photos with new styles or textures, and designing novel graphics.
But there's a specific kind of art here which seems especially interesting: Using AI-generated comics as a window into an AI's internal beliefs.
So we assume that the prompts contained most of the semantics for those other pieces, right? I saw a striking one without the prompt included and figured it was probably prompted in that direction.
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There are 2 plausible hypotheses:
1. By default the model gives 'boring' responses and people share the cherry-picked cases where the model says something 'weird'
2. People nudge the model to be 'weird' and then don't share the full prompting setup, which is indeed annoying