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It is specifically designed to not do realistic looking pictures probably to avoid people using it for deep-fake style content.

If you want realistic looking image generation, download DiffusionBee, and generate stuff like this ("Steve Jobs riding a horse into the sunset").

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How did you do that? I entered a prompt based on a selfie and the result was even worse than Image Playground
 
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The generation is just bad. Even if you dont mind the animation/drawing style, it just doesnt generate what you want.
Don’t worry. The next version will be much better. Of course it will require a 17 Pro with 12GB of RAM… 😜
 
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That one isn't at all surprising. It shouldn't be able to generate images of copyrighted content (ideally).

You’re both focusing on one part of my post and entirely missing the point. Fine, so it can’t show a copyrighted character. I went back and asked it for the same person “losing at a racing video game,” and it produced exactly the same errors - images of my friend dressed up as a race car driver with no reference to video games and nothing in the output to suggest he’s currently racing (as opposed to just standing in front of a race car) much less losing.

It’s not that it’s avoiding showing Mario (TM), it’s that it fundamentally misunderstands the prompt and outputs generic images that seem to have seized on one or two key words and missed the rest.

Likewise, the post about use of the word “Sierras” (which I won’t quote because it plainly contains personal attacks that violate forum rules). First of all, “artificial intelligence” should be able to understand “hiking in the Sierras” to mean a reference to the Sierra Nevada Mountains—even a “dumb” google search gets that right.

But even more importantly, it doesn’t matter if you replace “the Sierras” with the Alps, Rockies, Yosemite National Park, or anything else—it’s the same generic images no matter what. It has nothing to do with the use of the phrase “the Sierras”—the app can’t or won’t understand anything beyond the highest level of generality.
 
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You’re both focusing on one part of my post and entirely missing the point.
I didn't dispute or miss the rest of your post. I just pointed out that it shouldn't be surprising that it won't (and shouldn't) use copyrighted material.
 
Likewise, the post about use of the word “Sierras” (which I won’t quote because it plainly contains personal attacks that violate forum rules). First of all, “artificial intelligence” should be able to understand “hiking in the Sierras” to mean a reference to the Sierra Nevada Mountains—even a “dumb” google search gets that right.
But should it really when "Sierras" is a very confined local colloquialism, with a grammatically wrong pluralisation on top, which doesn't make sense to most of the rest of the world?

It's much the same when searching for "Sierras" in Wikipedia, and either be annoyed that Wikipedia also doesn't mind read a Californian mind, or possibly use the chance of the results page as a new valuable input about "Sierras".

I hope this doesn't violate forum rules again, but I still think the problem with the prompt requests you stated were definitely on the user side.

Unwatching this thread as I don't see it going anywhere …
 
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I didn't dispute or miss the rest of your post. I just pointed out that it shouldn't be surprising that it won't (and shouldn't) use copyrighted material.
OK, but it doesn’t spit out an error saying that’s the problem with the request, or even saying that there’s any problem with the request at all. It acts as if it is fulfilling the requested prompt. If the program identifies a problematic aspect to the request, a better behavior from the app would be for it to identify the reason it cannot fulfill the request asked.
 
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My biggest problem at the moment is that despite having people recognised in my ‘Pets and People’ section in photos, they are unavailable to use in Image Playground. Any idea why not?
 
I’m bald and never wear a suit & tie. Playground puts more hair on my head than I ever had and most of the time it has me in a suit & tie.

“It just doesn’t work”

It's obsessed with suits and ties for men! I'll only wear one when someone dies. :)

OK, but it doesn’t spit out an error saying that’s the problem with the request, or even saying that there’s any problem with the request at all. It acts as if it is fulfilling the requested prompt. If the program identifies a problematic aspect to the request, a better behavior from the app would be for it to identify the reason it cannot fulfill the request asked.

Absolutely. There's a lot of things I would change about it.

My biggest problem at the moment is that despite having people recognised in my ‘Pets and People’ section in photos, they are unavailable to use in Image Playground. Any idea why not?
Instead of tapping on the button with a person symbol tap on the button with a plus icon. Then select "choose photo" and pick the photo with that person. That's how I'm getting around it. It's so annoying that you can't do this with Genmoji.
 
I still don't understand why Apple chose to create an app for this. There's loads of AI image generators about which are improving all the time, leave it to them
 
Instead of tapping on the button with a person symbol tap on the button with a plus icon. Then select "choose photo" and pick the photo with that person. That's how I'm getting around it. It's so annoying that you can't do this with Genmoji.
Thanks for that. It's a sort but a shame it doesn't work by 'averaging' multiple photos like it's supposed to.
 
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Thanks for that. It's a sort but a shame it doesn't work by 'averaging' multiple photos like it's supposed to.
No problem! I find the current implementation really frustrating. There's solo photos of people in my library it just refuses to find. I can go in and select them manually for Playground but I shouldn't have to. And those people are unusable with Genmoji.
 
Haven’t used any of the Apple Intelligence features I’ve turned it off what a useless time and investment
 
These things will just obliterate our common cultural understanding and nothing will have any significance to other people than your closest circle. Sure, we have that now. But what we also have now is each circle having the same basis of understanding. How does conflict start? Lack of understanding..
 
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