Comments on: Artist's Statement: You got your AI in my MS Paint!

Artist's Statement: You got your AI in my MS Paint!

not_on_display — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:27:15 -0800

paint.wtf In which you, l'artiste, are prompted with a caption, for a scene which you are to sketch—only to have your genius validated or denied by an AI critic who's been programmed to rank your masterpiece among the world's best entries. New prompts generated frequently. I recently placed fifth among a field of forty illustrators with my stark rendition of A Shark That Refuses To Eat Fish (2021).

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:34:28 -0800

I came in 9th behind a penis. It's not even a good penis. Typical.

By: nat

nat — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:15:07 -0800

My shark that will not eat fish got marked NSFW. I don't know why. It's a bit suggestive, but only in the sense that it doesn't look that much like a shark so is instead only shark like.

By: Vervain

Vervain — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:28:46 -0800

This is giving me a lot of joy tonight. Drug dealer is actually a cat is doing well, but Whale on the Titanic was more fun.

By: evidenceofabsence

evidenceofabsence — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:43:07 -0800

I guess there's no accounting for taste

By: taquito sunrise

taquito sunrise — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:57:08 -0800

I can't believe it's not more highly-ranked butter

By: taquito sunrise

taquito sunrise — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:04:00 -0800

ok I love my horse eating a pizza no matter what the robot says though

By: thelonius

thelonius — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:13:49 -0800

What if it said that its 101 year old could do that?

By: ourobouros

ourobouros — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:33:34 -0800

I am proud and a little puzzled to be first-ranked among butters. How bad were the rest of those butters?

By: TWinbrook8

TWinbrook8 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:38:35 -0800

My giant fabric doll is currently ranked #7 but I think #8 (doll floating in outer space) is wittier.

By: Balthamos

Balthamos — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:52:15 -0800

This is so fucking funny and I've recommended it to my illustration students for practice with bizarre briefs. My "Person who eats their own dog" is currently ranks 5th, but tbh the current 6th ranker should be top of all time

By: chavenet

chavenet — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:10:32 -0800

ourobouros: "I am proud and a little puzzled to be first-ranked among butters. How bad were the rest of those butters?" Mine was like 57th of the butters, and I drew a churn. There was no butter.

By: Ten Cold Hot Dogs

Ten Cold Hot Dogs — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:32:46 -0800

Yes, interesting how it ranks. For the prompt "living in a van down by the river", a sparse blue line with a vehicle shape ranks ~2400, but a blue word RIVER and a black word VAN with a stick figure is in the 40s.

By: taz

taz — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:42:37 -0800

not_on_display, you clearly had the best shark that refuses to eat fish. The body language! The pained expression!

By: Bella Donna

Bella Donna — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:48:04 -0800

Thanks for posting this, so fun!

By: Xiphias Gladius

Xiphias Gladius — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:55:46 -0800

I feel like my utter lack of artistic talent SHOULD be a bigger impediment to this, but I got #1 on, Dinosaur Parked On Elephant and #2 on .Drug Dealer Is Actually A Cat. Behind something with actual artistic talent. I was solidly middle of the pack in my Shark Refuses To Eat Fish , and marked potentially NSFW? but that was before I realized that you can use color. Apparently, using color helps.

By: elgilito

elgilito — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 06:03:18 -0800

Damn I'm only #3 on Dinosaur Parked on Elephant. Time to take some art lessons I guess.

By: Xiphias Gladius

Xiphias Gladius — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 06:09:14 -0800

Honestly, elgilito, I think you're taking the wrong message from this. Look at the two above you -- you need ANTI-art-lessons in order to score higher.

By: Balthamos

Balthamos — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 06:46:20 -0800

The plot thickens; revisiting "person who eats their own dog", a new entry coming in ranked one place above mine incorporates elements taken from mine and the entry below mine... People are working out how to game the AI! Presumably it "likes" things it already has seen (as is the nature of all brains, A and non-A) so if you draw stuff incorporating elements of entries that have ranked highly you'll be more likely to rank high... The kinds of thinking people will do to get to the top of a leader board... We need to arbitrarily competitive-ize the revolution if we really want things to happen.

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 07:14:31 -0800

I think I broke it with my "spotted glider chomping on an ant" :(

By: aramaic

aramaic — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 07:26:11 -0800

The kinds of thinking people will do to get to the top of a leader board. ...which is a nicely concrete and utterly vapid illustration of the Dream-cheats-at-Minecraft thread from a little while ago: This "contest" means nothing. It provides nothing except brief bemusement. And yet people will go to ever-greater lengths to "win".

By: wreckingball

wreckingball — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:08:37 -0800

This "contest" means nothing. It provides nothing except brief bemusement. And yet people will go to ever-greater lengths to "win". Wouldn't it be healthier to just admit that you're jealous of my globally top-ranking and objectively perfect person [devouring] their own dog?

By: Balthamos

Balthamos — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:14:22 -0800

I sure am, wreckingball- it's a masterpiece! Also you're 1st out of 69, nice 8)

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:34:33 -0800

Pretty excited to be 3 out of 335 in butter!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:59:31 -0800

I scored in the lower half on butter.

By: nat

nat — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:29:54 -0800

My elephant in shark cage Is deliberately minimalist. When I try to info something weird to "win" here, it isn't about being on the leaderboard. It's about trying to understand what the AI is looking for; it isn't an actual elephant in a shark cage. It's some set of shaped and colors. And I want to prod the AI to figure out *what* set of shapes/colors it is after. In my case, mostly to find out how minimalist I can be. It isn't about going to lengths to win.

By: nat

nat — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:31:46 -0800

Oh, and this one is my favorite among the sharks who will not eat fish.

By: Rube R. Nekker

Rube R. Nekker — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:45:34 -0800

Please take a moment and vibe with my AI-sanctioned masterpiece, Bannana Tree in the middle of Nowhere! Super fun! Thanks, eponysterical thanks, not_on_display!

By: wilberforce

wilberforce — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:01:12 -0800

I think we can all agree that my top-ranked banana tree in the middle of nowhere is clearly the best.

By: TWinbrook8

TWinbrook8 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:36:43 -0800

oh wow folks, bananas do not grow on palm trees.

By: Think_Long

Think_Long — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:35:51 -0800

but if the AI thinks we think the AI thinks we think that bananas grow on palm trees then maybe we win

By: mollweide

mollweide — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:47:50 -0800

You dastardly system gamers, knocking my banana tree down from 4th to 9th! oh wow folks, bananas do not grow on palm trees. Well, obviously they do now.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:43:16 -0800

Third Place, for a Giant Bell Pepper, goes to....

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:00:56 -0800

I am pleasantly surprised with my bald man at a museum, despite not making the AI judge's top ten.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:10:22 -0800

For at least this brief moment, I have drawn the best (of four) balloon that's twice as big as it should be.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:52:12 -0800

Does the AI come up with these prompts? They are so good. I doubt a human could think of "balloon that's twice as big as it should be."

By: taz

taz — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:53:30 -0800

I love the prompt, "of course, they do love to do that"

By: taz

taz — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:56:14 -0800

(I'm not sure what current #13 is loving to do?)

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:44:42 -0800

I'm not sure what most of those were loving to do, so I added this, and came in the lower percentiles... But I didn't have time to pander, like the #1 entry.

By: RobinofFrocksley

RobinofFrocksley — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:31:30 -0800

I truly love my fat cat and would like to pet him no matter how he ranks

By: taz

taz — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:24:22 -0800

That is a perfect fat cat.

By: RobinofFrocksley

RobinofFrocksley — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:04:53 -0800

I have to give credit for my fat cat to Ramona Quimby. She showed me how to draw a cat. I like mine with three whiskers on each side. "She drew another Q and admired it a moment before she added two little pointed ears, and then she added two whiskers on each side so that her Q looked the way the cat looked when crouched on a rug in front of the fireplace." -Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

By: evidenceofabsence

evidenceofabsence — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:47:55 -0800

I have lost both my mind and the competition. (The winner.)

By: nat

nat — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:33:54 -0800

Now, they should take all the entries, get an AI to label them, and we can all play AI-assisted telephone pictionary.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:42:45 -0800

motorized oyster shell i'm starting to get the hang of this now if only i could sleeeeeep just one more

By: biogeo

biogeo — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:49:35 -0800

It is not highly ranked but I'm inordinately pleased with my switch that is capable of turning off the sun.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:00:27 -0800

Metafilter: It's a bit suggestive, but only in the sense that it doesn't look that much like a shark so is instead only shark like.