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?
一位網絡評論人士要求制作一幅浮世繪(ukiyo-e)風格的泰迪熊逛雜貨店圖，而且似乎對成品非常滿意。另一些人就沒那么高興了；他們要求制作一張古斯塔夫?克里姆特(Gustav Klimt)——《吻》(The Kiss)顯然是他們最喜歡的畫——風格的貓咪喝湯圖。早些時候，有人要求制作一張梵高(Van Gogh)風格的火星上的一級方程式賽車圖，成品看起來像是被拒掉的70年代小樂隊自制專輯封面——但顯然得到了相當多認可。然而，克里姆特風格的喝湯貓卻未能合人心意。提出制作要求的人哀嘆道：“它看起來一點兒也不像《吻》。”