Why AI art struggles with hands ?
Why AI art struggles with hands ? A digital masterpiece, with spaghetti fingers ! In July 2022, artificial intelligence (AI)…
A digital masterpiece, with spaghetti fingers !
In July 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI announced DALL-E 2, one of the first AI image generators available to the public. Users can enter any prompt, from “Beyonce eating pizza” to “Renaissance portrait of a poodle” to “Statue of Liberty skateboarding,” and DALL-E 2 will respond with a corresponding set of images. To do. However, the images produced by DALL-E 2 were incomplete, often distorted, and unrelated to the user’s prompts.
And there was competition. Around the same time, two other AI companies, Stability AI and Midjourney, released their own image-generating AI programs.
Stability AI introduced his Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney introduced his own named tool. By August, Midjourney’s AI image generator was so advanced that one of its images won an art competition at the state fair.
However, I noticed that the error repeatedly occurs when a user enters a prompt that includes the user in one of these generators. Like many aspiring artists, I couldn’t draw hands with AI tools. AI-generated hands can have nine fingers or fingers protruding from the palm. In some images, the hands are not attached to the human body and appear to be floating. Elsewhere, two or more hands are fused at the wrist.
Why ?
There are several reasons why AI may have problems with its hands and fingers. One is simply that the hand is just a small part of the human body. In photos of real people, hands are usually not in focus. In particular, AI programs tend to have the same problems with human teeth and ears as they do with hands. AI-generated teeth are often small, dense, and even pointed, while ears are often depicted without earlobes.
Hands, teeth, and ears are all small and highly variable aspects of the human body. For example, if AI scans photos of people with missing teeth, it might conclude that every smile has the same gap.
In a January 2023 interview with BuzzFeed News, a spokesperson for Stability AI said, “Hands are less visible than faces in human images in AI datasets.” explained that you will need more reference photos that focus on the hands.
The YouTube channel Vox has covered this subject in a very detailed video that you can check out below :
Funny fact : there are now props of a additional finger that you can were to make photos and videos dismissed as evidence in court !
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