Using chatGPT

[Fireengines]

I have never been very good at photographing my pens—until using ChatGPT. This is a cigar pen I crafted from teak wood removed from the battleship USS California (BB-44) after she was decommissioned. The photo on the right is my first attempt at photographing the pen; the photo on the right is after running the image through ChatGPT and adding a photo of the ship's deck as the background. The entire process took about five minutes.

 

[d_bondi]

I like the idea.

But... is it just me or did ChatGPT decide to alter the proportions of the pen. In the pic with BB-44 in the background, the upper half of the pen (with the clip) is noticeably shorter. It also completely changed the detail on the metal portions of the pen. It also altered the look of the wood if you look closely. I would argue that they are not the same pen. That would bother me both as a maker, seller and customer.

 

[rixstix]

In my Astrophotography world, people are using chatgpt and finding that chatgpt is just replacing semicrappy images with hubble or JWST quality images and letting the person believe that the image was just an enhancement of their photo. I suspect something similar is happening here.

 

[bsshog40]

Yep, I have used Gemini AI for pen backgrounds also. There was another post on this a while back. AI does a good job with backgrounds but I did notice changes in the pen. Some were hard to see and others were pretty subtle.

 

[BHuij]

I have never been very good at photographing my pens—until using ChatGPT. This is a cigar pen I crafted from teak wood removed from the battleship USS California (BB-44) after she was decommissioned. The photo on the right is my first attempt at photographing the pen; the photo on the right is after running the image through ChatGPT and adding a photo of the ship's deck as the background. The entire process took about five minutes.

I have to say I'm kind of against this in many contexts. What you did is give an AI image generator your pen as an idea for how to produce an entirely new image. It didn't modify your image, it made something up. The clip on your pen doesn't look anything like the clip on the AI image. The proportions of the AI pen are different than the real one. The finish and tone of the wood looks different. If I was, for example, a customer, and I expected a pen that looked like the one in the AI image, I would be frustrated to receive one that looks entirely different.

If your only goal was to make an interesting image that somewhat resembled your pen, then I guess you accomplished it. If your goal is to use the AI image as any sort of representation of what you actually made, then I think you've gone astray.