My favorite place to stay in Amsterdam is very close to the Rijksmuseum, and when I go there, I usually stop by Rembrandt’s newly restored masterpiece, the Night Watch. But my respect for art does not prevent me from playing with the topic and the style.
So, one day I found myself opening DALL-E and asking this:
Me: Create a variant of Rembrandt’s Night Watch, but replace the people with yetis.
DALL-E was not one hundred percent loyal to the original painting — MLLMs are notoriously bad at copying things — but it captured the spirit of the era quite well.
At this point, I remembered that months before I asked old DALL-E 2 to give me some yeti-based horror, so I now instructed young DALL-E 3 to re-create it:
Me: Create a scene from a horror movie that shows a council of yetis debating the obliteration of humankind.
Note that DALL-E’s content policy has been updated since I asked this, and today I probably wouldn’t be able to run a prompt that contains “obliteration of humankind”. By the way, I know the word “obliteration” from Douglas Adams: he wrote about aliens who believe in “peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life, and the obliteration of all other life forms”.
Finally, here’s what old DALL-E 2 gave me on the same subject:
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