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Bonus: more of Ada's ideas for Mastodon communities

AI imagines my cat in costumes

I don't dress my cat in costumes because, without even trying, I know she would hate that.

But now I can use text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 to imagine what she would look like in costumes. After all, even if it never saw my cat in a robot costume

Bonus: My cat in weird AI costumes

AI generated halloween candy

One of the things I'm enjoying about text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 is how it has stuff about common brands in its training data, but it still manages to completely garble them.

Please enjoy these DALL-E2 attempts at Halloween candy favorites.

Yellow candy bars with blue lettering on them reading "Burtrfner", "Bungteer", "Bungeferr", and "Buningdeter"
Prompt: "Product photo of a fun-sized butterfinger

Bonus: Halloween candy by state

(Unlocked bonus post - longggg bonus post!)

What does DALL-E2 generate when I ask it for the most popular Halloween candy of each US state?

Each prompt is included in the picture's caption - you can see that after a while I started varying it a bit, first