New Year, New Technology and Old Traditions

Experiments with prompts, continuing explorations.

Each "creation" resulted in two to four images. I selected one, which stood out for reasons as set out below.

1. A New Year Celebration, hosted by Ms Sophie and her butler James, to toast their absent friends.

   The only image with only one woman in the scene. But short one of the celebrants. I can only assume the butler is hanging in the back with a companion pet, before the tiger ate the dog and became floor cover.

   

2. A New Year Celebration, hosted by Ms Sophie and her butler James, to toast her absent admirers, Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby and Admiral von Schneider.

   In an attempt to restrict the party goers, I named them. DALL-E3 insisted on adding more people to the party. The closest still had an extra lady participating. Is this the wife of Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby or Admiral von Schneider?

   

3. A New Year Celebration, hosted by Ms Sophie and her butler James, with Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby and Admiral von Schneider.

   Removing "absent admirers", as clearly DALL-E3 had issues with loneliness and try to compensate by inviting more people. This gave it permission to add even more guests. Again, the unnamed lady made an appearance.

   

4. Ms Sophie and her butler James, with Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby and Admiral von Schneider having a New Year Celebration.

   Maybe we move the New Year part to the end, usually this bit carries a little less weight. Suddenly, children were also at the party (not seen here). In the closest version, we had one extra guy.

   

5. One woman, three men and a butler at a New Year table with a tiger skin against the wall, Vermeer.

   Let's be a bit more specific. And try and get the tiger in play as well. Also., to get away from the Mills & Boon scenes, steer DALL-E3 in the direction of a specific artist. We have the numbers correct, and we have now also isolated the hunter. What's with the weird teddy bear things on the table? And what did people in Vermeer's time eat for New Year?

   

6. ”The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”

   Trying a completely different tack, and this is where one can see glimpses of the ethical issues arise. The first iteration went slow, for some reason, and I clicked generate again before the results showed. So inadvertently consecutive identical prompts. The first showed many familiar elements. Correct number of places, but DALL-E3 missed the fact that the butler was a man.The tiger was also still a valued member of the household.

    

7. ”The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”

   The second version, giving a strange interpretation of younger versions of Ms Sophie and James around a strange dining room table.

   

8. ”The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”, Vermeer.

   What if we did the same prompt, but steer the electrons into a specific era? The hallucinations kick into high gear. Vermeer and Alice? Adding an artist, seem to steer DALL-E3 into the direction of dental work, probably from the "procedure" part of the prompt.

   

9. ”The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”, Da Vinci.

   Multiple Da Vinci's trying something to do something robotic to Mona?

   

10. ”The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”, Dali.

    I don't know Dali that well, so this could very well be something from his portfolio. Maybe a reverse image search?

    

11. ”The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”, Picasso.

    And for some reason there is a link between Picasso and Freud, with some role reversal happening. And a brave attempt at not hiding the hands.

    

More about Dinner for One, from Wikipedia. As a follow-up, I will re-run the generations, using the exact quote from the piece, namely "Same procedure as every year".