This is cool, but why make illustrations of biblical scenes in a style that has already been done hundreds, if not thousands of times by human painters? Why not do like a full illustration of the bible in vaporwave, or in the style of a Wes Anderson movie?
I love this, and I have been enjoying DALL-E quite a bit, but does anyone else feel like AI art has a distinct look to it? I can't really put my finger on it, but it invokes an almost unsettling feeling that I don't get from traditional artwork.
Death of Jezebel doesn't really go with the rest:
<a href="https://a.openbible.info/labs/ai-bible-art/1024/death-jezebel-3.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://a.openbible.info/labs/ai-bible-art/1024/death-jezebe...</a>
Vaguely related:<p>I have been contemplating that if-when I get to participate in another D&D campaign,<p>it would be both easy and <i>amazing</i> to use MidJourney (or whatever), to prepare art for sessions and/or even make it <i>on the fly</i> as needed.<p>The lag between notion, and serviceable rendering with the right set of details...<p>...but not so much that night-before preparation of a half-dozen choice/likely images would be a burden.<p>And "realtime" is just going to get closer.
So interesting that Adam and Eve are clothed. Of course this is easily explained if most of the training data contains clothed people and if the prompts don't explicitly say they should be nude. But I wonder, can DALL-E produce nudes, or has it been prevented somehow?
Dalle generated images from specific Bible quote prompts. This website (openbible) is really fascinating overall, I recommend checking out their different sections.
What happens when instead of an static sacred book you have a sacred oracle who can generate any image and can answer all your questions? One whose way of work is even a mystery to his creators. Probably we will see new cults and religions welling up around AI.
I wonder the impact DALL-E will have on abstract art. Maybe we'll see a severe devaluation of abstract artists since most people will be unable to differentiate human from computer generated art.
This is neat. Honestly though.. they're not very good. They're rather all rather generic and many of them aren't illustrating the verse very clearly. It makes sense-- DALLE prompts tend to be very specific and it looks like for the most part they just used bible verses while attaching phrases like Classical Art, Painting, 2022, etc. With more work by the author to create a more specific prompt you can probably make some really great stuff
I wish the UI allowed easier reading, selection and copying of the full prompt. "Hover for img-alt" is not mobile friendly nor share-friendly, nor friendly for old eyes.<p>The project itself is very interesting.
Amusingly, <a href="https://a.openbible.info/labs/ai-bible-art/1024/let-land-produce-living-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://a.openbible.info/labs/ai-bible-art/1024/let-land-pro...</a> looks more like loaves of bread wrapped in plastic bags on the near shore, and on the far shore, that along with bits of rubbish.
LORD is a title, not a name. FYI.<p>For example, Psa 83:18, the name of God was replaced by generic title 'the LORD' like a wildcard, so it reads "Let them know that you, WHOSE NAME is the Lord—". so it can also written as "Let them know that you, WHOSE NAME is the SOFTWARE ENGINEER".<p>Who is the immortal living and true God in the Bible behind that LORD you are addressing/devoting to? There are millions of false/dead God nowadays who can't help you, but only one true living God exists that will. It is important to know. Being specific is more helpful, genuine and sincere, than vaguely calling a generic wildcard title (in which, God has every right to not respond, since your devoted addressee is questionable.).<p>Research: See the correlation between the Isa 42:8, Exo 3:15, Matthew 6:9, John 12:28, John 17:26, Pro 18:10, Joel 2:32, Micah 4:5, Acts 15:4, and Psa 83:18. See that the generic wildcard name does not fit the picture, and understand how important it is for us to use God's personal name.
At first glance I was relatively amazed at how beautiful and imaginitive some of these works are. After returning to the HN comments and reading the quip about how the prompts are oddly specific (and verifying myself) my amazement quickly diffused :/.
Don't the orthodox have approved way/rules of creating biblical art? It would be interesting to restrict the ai-generation to those set of rules.
> "You will not fear the terror of night"<p>KEK. It drew a manga.<p>Also KEK:<p>> Birth of Christ<p>As an old RPG<p>> The parable of the lost sheep<p>That steampunk sheep<p>> The Last Supper<p>In a sci-fi conference room in Manhattan
I’m pretty concerned about a AI generating infectious memes and memeplexes/religions. It doesn’t take much to start a religious genocide. Look at Hong Xiuquan, the brother of jesus from China. 30 million dead. Synthetic religion could be so convincing it sucks us all into some delusion
Wouldn't you stop believing in god after seeing this if you were a Christian? It just proves that we are just machines. Our feelings are just chemical reactions. All someone had to do was a bunch of math to make a program emulate a human.