“Clock with eyes nose and mouth” generated a clock face with those features. “Clock that can talk” just gave me a clock.
“Chair that can walk” gives me images of a chair, but changing it to “Chair with robotic legs and feet” generated chairs with robot legs, but not like in the ad. I tried “human legs and feet” and “humanoid legs and feet” but those also gave me just simple chairs.
No matter how I phrase it I can’t get a twelve-sided die that actually looks good. I either get a regular six-sided die or I get something that maybe has twelve “sides” but they aren’t even and nobody would think it was a die, it’s just sort of an odd shape. Also, even the six-sided die it generates has odd dimples of different sizes.
OK, I tired again with “Die with 12 even sides, numbered” and got this: So, it seems like maybe we actually can generate a lot of what’s in the ad if the phrasing is correct and the phrasing in the song is very simplified, not necessarily inaccurate.
There’s a lot of copium to digest in this article. If Samsung gets caught stretching the truth it’s doom and gloom but when Apple does it, it’s a whimsical representation of the true foundation of an idea. And this comment is coming from a ride or die Apple fan.
Be more critical - it might actually push Apple to try harder.
Apple’s advertising has been abysmal this year. They started off with the controversial crush ad, then had an ad pulled for objectively misrepresenting Thai culture, and then ended with not only a bunch of ads that liken people who use Apple Intellegence to complete morons who lie and cheat, but also this, which wholly misrepresents a new feature on every level.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me
I was able to recreate the tomato spy in 10 seconds with the prompt “tomato spy in trechcoat”
"12 sided dice" and "12 sided dice with numerals" both generated an odd multi-sided dice with unintelligible symbols or incomplete dots on the sides. Seems like it should be a straightforward request to get a 12 sided dice with numbers on it.
“Clock with eyes nose and mouth” generated a clock face with those features. “Clock that can talk” just gave me a clock.
“Chair that can walk” gives me images of a chair, but changing it to “Chair with robotic legs and feet” generated chairs with robot legs, but not like in the ad. I tried “human legs and feet” and “humanoid legs and feet” but those also gave me just simple chairs.
No matter how I phrase it I can’t get a twelve-sided die that actually looks good. I either get a regular six-sided die or I get something that maybe has twelve “sides” but they aren’t even and nobody would think it was a die, it’s just sort of an odd shape. Also, even the six-sided die it generates has odd dimples of different sizes.
OK, I tired again with “Die with 12 even sides, numbered” and got this: So, it seems like maybe we actually can generate a lot of what’s in the ad if the phrasing is correct and the phrasing in the song is very simplified, not necessarily inaccurate.
To be honest, the dice isn't 12 sides and only the number 2 seems to be an actual number -- the other sides just have odd nonsense symbols.
I was clear in the article and I'll restate here: you can massage prompts to get close, but the output is never what is in the ad. It's never as clean. You will never make that beautiful 12 sided die. There is no way to get a Cogswerth-esque clock with a face. The garbage you get is an approximation at times, but never the human animated emoji shown in the commercial. None of that is to say genmoji is bad, I rather enjoy the feature. It's just to say the ad doesn't represent the product, which is an odd miss for Apple that has been the case for most of its AI ads.
I do think Apple’s need for control (which I do appreciate) over the entire user experience may play against them in the generative space. Choosing to pick benign objects, shapes, animals, etc it does a very good job of. But I can’t for the life of me get it to make an image of me giving an annoyed or disgruntled or angry or mad or sad or any other expression other than pure joy and jubilation. Even something like giving a thumbs down is apparently a faux pas in Apple’s generative AI world. I get one maybe two images with a thumbs down with a huge smile on my face and the rest are giving a thumbs up with a huge smile on my face. What’s the point of this if I can’t generate what I want. It’s one thing to be directed and coerced about how to manage files or how to interact with a UI but limiting the images created in my likeness to only ever being happy is something that I am finding very disconcerting.
I've had the same - one of my friends is a little larger and it makes him look slim, which is frankly offensive vs representing him properly. I asked to make him fatter and that wasn't allowed (too offensive obviously), and asking to make him "heaver" was allowed but did nothing at all. The accuracy for slim people is scarily accurate though. It's pretty cool. Just a shame that doing anything outside of the "suggested" doesn't really do anything. Also makes my phone *really* hot.
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“Chair that can walk” gives me images of a chair, but changing it to “Chair with robotic legs and feet” generated chairs with robot legs, but not like in the ad. I tried “human legs and feet” and “humanoid legs and feet” but those also gave me just simple chairs.
No matter how I phrase it I can’t get a twelve-sided die that actually looks good. I either get a regular six-sided die or I get something that maybe has twelve “sides” but they aren’t even and nobody would think it was a die, it’s just sort of an odd shape. Also, even the six-sided die it generates has odd dimples of different sizes.
OK, I tired again with “Die with 12 even sides, numbered” and got this:
So, it seems like maybe we actually can generate a lot of what’s in the ad if the phrasing is correct and the phrasing in the song is very simplified, not necessarily inaccurate.
At least in these cases it's possible to try the exact same inputs on different generators and compare the results.