Continuing from the last post on AI (Part1 – Generative Images), I just thought I’d quickly touch on hallucinations, as in the beginning I heard the term pretty often but didn’t really know what they were referring to. Especially in generated imagery, I’ve found that the AI has difficulty with human hands – the the examples below you’ll notice deformed hands, extra fingers, or even missing hand all together. These are considered hallucinations. Like the AI is “seeing things” that should not be there.

In textual AI generation there can be hallucinations as well, meaning things it tells you are made up or false. In a future post I’ll try to give some examples.

As I was experimenting with images, I also discovered AI didn’t know about the Shaka or Hang Loose hand gesture. Slices of birthday cake with a candle was also very challenging for it.

Here are some partial commands that I gave that produced the examples below.

• hawaiian dude with hang loose sign, wearing blue Hawaiian tropical leaves shirt, etc etc…
• surfer girl with hang loose sign, ocean with palm trees in the background, smiling, kawai aesthetic, etc etc…
• older american man with goatee and retangular frame glasses, in a coffee shop, holding cappuccino, wearing flannel shirt, etc etc…
• older japanese man with goatee and wire frame glasses in a coffee shop wearing flannel shirt, with John’s Japanese Hot Sauce etc etc…
• photograph of a lit birthday candle in a slice of birthday cake on a plate, etc etc…
• photograph of a plate with slice of birthday cake that has a lit candle in it, and a pourover coffee etc etc…

Stay cool 🤙

-john.