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"n02105855/n02105855_2933.jpeg" is actually a PNG
A noble dog.
For reasons i can't fathom i am super fascinated by a very curious but also super banal and, honestly, only mildly interesting fact.
In the giant imagenet dataset, the mother of all datasets which predates modern AI-Neural Networks by 3 years and made the AI-explosion possible we're seeing today, in this very big dataset of 13 million images of only JPGs there is one -- ONE! -- image that is a PNG.
And it's not just a PNG, it's a PNG that somebody renamed as a JPG, most likely due to platform restrictions back in the days. The name of the file is n02105855/n02105855_2933.JPEG, but it is actually a PNG.
Here it is:
This is the only PNG in ImageNet and it was found by Max Ehrlich during his analysis of data-compression in the ImageNet Dataset, and it is actually a JPG. Also, it pictures a very noble and fine looking dog.
I totally want a shirt that says: "n02105855/05855_2933.JPEG" is actually a PNG
This is not just a noble and fine looking dog and not just not a JPG — this is the only PNG in the whole set of 13 million images in ImageNet and it is a very noble and fine looking dog. (I like dogs a lot, by the way.)
My mind blows easily these days, I know, but here we are, looking at a JPG that is actually a PNG.
And we are not done yet.
Here's what happens when you put '"n02105855/n02105855_2933.jpeg" is actually a PNG' into Stable Diffusion. You get some screenshot-y images and a serious looking asian business guy. This does not explain a single file in 13 million set of images that is not a JPG in the most legendary of all datasets, it does not explain the dog, his nobility, or my fascination with these facts in any way.
So, because i am who i am, i made this thing into a T-Shirt you can actually buy.
But this is still not the whole bang.
When I made those shirts, I saved the graphic file as a PNG (you know whats next), then i renamed it as a JPEG and uploaded that one to spreadshirt.
Which means that this is a recursive JPG-Shirt that is actually a PNG, and it features the image of a very fine and noble looking dog.*
* Spreadshirt renames the files on upload back to PNG which ruins the shirt-part of this silly story a bit, but hey, i tried and this preserves the alphachannel which plays nicely with shirtcolors, so i'm not complaining.
Img2Img Logo-Variants
Yewjin with the help of the AI Stable Diffusion and img2img generated some quite cool naturalistic variations of well known logos.
A few years ago, this was exactly the design-y stuff that went viral on sites like designyoutrust. Not exactly truly artistic stuff with deep messages, but fun small projects that you could have a good time with for a minute or two, sideprojects for Illustrator to make a splash. Some of these are really nice btw. I dig KFC and WWF most.
What this means is simply that you have to try harder when you want to make a splash as an Illustrator. And that, too, is a good thing.
This opportunity for professional illustrators to make a name for themselves by making viral fun little projects to post on designyoutrust and all those platforms to selfpromote as a creative now has been democratized, and there is nothing you can do. In this case you can't even complain, because works like these are derivative by default. People don't need to wait for illustrators to make images of Steampunk iPhones anymore. They can make this stuff for themselves. And thats fine.
I'm sorry if this means that it’s harder to make a buck with derivate artworks of Marvel IP or with the nth iteration of SciFi/Fantasy concept "art" of dragons and aliens and spaceships.
The David O'Reillys and Stalenhags of the world should be safe. The rest… not so much.
AN AI-generated Bond-Villain
Ten years ago, Brian Joseph Davis created illustrations of famous fictional characters from literature with a composite sketch software used by the police to make images of fugitive criminals.
These days, Pawel Klimkowski generates prompts for Dall-E 2 from the onscreen descriptions of James Bond Villains and the similarity of the real life Bond Villain and the AI-generated rendering is eerie.
I was watching "For Your Eyes Only" a James Bond 007 movie from 1981 featuring a scene, where Q was using his computer to generate a photo of Emile Leopold Locque, villain and heroine smuggler. James provided a detailed description of a searched persona, and his photo was printed out on a dot matrix printer.
I thought that it would be fun to recreate this on my computer using dalle2 41 years later when the technology imagined by the authors actually exists. I've found the transcript, and prompted the description word by word, with small directions to the OpenAI's labs form.
"Portrait mugshot from 1991 that match the description of Male Caucasian. Late 30s. Hair - fine, light brown. Parted in the middle. Eyes - a little smaller, blue, a little greyer. A nose, not a banana. Lips fuller. Mouth wider. Seel-rimmed octagonal glasses."
No information regarding the source and movie was provided, and I've made one variation.
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Look, i know there are new trailers for Black Adam and Star Wars and Willow and The Little Mermaid and all of that nice nice, imma let you finnish, but Leonor steals the show (awesome posters at the bottom of this email/posting).
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