tricking the Machine

AI provides a new-level, efficient tool to nearly every aspect of computing. As such, it's healthy to test the beast to see just how well it can avoid traps…because that's simply fun…and useful at some other level we'll ignore.

So, let’s play with what is called “AI Generative Fill”, or “outpainting” where the AI is tasked with filling in the missing part, or edges of an existing image.

Assuming the AI has been trained on the classical images, like the Mona Lisa, I had lofty expectations….

I have the original here on the left, and on the right, the version with half missing….

I asked Adobe Photoshop Beta to fill in the left half and got….

Leonardo would be a little disappointed.

• now, it can actually do good work, if not perfectly predicting what we demand….

above is an original AI created image (using guidance from text prompts), and BELOW is additional views created by expanding the canvas horizontally and giving the AI a command to “fill in” the blank canvas based on what already exists.