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@kettlebellz The prompt here is "." Left: old Midjourney. Right: Midjourney V4, which discovers the eternal feminine even in punctuation.
@academiquette "Melancholy" and "melancolia," both v 4.
"Whisper." The bias was already there, but it intensifies to the point of kitsch. Don't want to exaggerate the significance of this kind of thing: the default bias of a generative model is easy to see & not hard to override. It might be a smaller problem than it is in humans!
On the left, "Synesthesia," preceding version of Midjourney. On the right, "Synesthesia," V4. Biasing a model toward inferred aesthetic preferences means that abstractions are by default female, and usually white.
@arnicas Got it. I think one thing I'm learning is: don't mention Rutkowski or Gurney, or maybe even Monet! There is enough gleamy golden-lit fantasy art in the training corpus already, and you need to push this model a little in the other direction.
I was pretty happy with the left version of "an intricate treehouse in a Studio Ghibli forest" back in April, but Midjourney V4 is, um, better.
@Adam_Crymble "Two rhinoceroses with the faces of American presidents Washington and Lincoln." (Since this is an unusual occurrence it seems sort of fair to demand explicit syntax lol!)
@Adam_Crymble "Two rhinoceri, Washington and Lincoln" in #StableDiffusion. It has trouble with Washington's hairline but not esp with the Oxford comma.