New AI-generated horsies
Recently I've been experimenting with DALL-E 2, one of the models that uses CLIP to generate images from my text descriptions. It was trained on internet text and images, so there's a lot it can do, and a lot of ways it can remix the stuff it's seen online. I decided to have it generate new horsies.
This is "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a guinea pig"
![A chunky horse with guinea pig markings, guinea pig ears, and a guinea pig face. Its legs are short but hooved.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-12.00.42---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-a-guinea-pig.png)
I chose Breyer because the brand has been around so long that there are plenty of pictures of Breyer horses online, and also because they have a distinctive realistic style and matte plastic texture.
![A horse toy with opossum face and ears, and opossum coloration. Its tail is long and bony.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-12.00.31---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-an-opossum.png)
These particular models never existed, though.
![Mostly looks like a chipmunk, but body and legs are very horselike. The tail is arched in a very horse toy like way.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-12.17.06---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-a-chipmunk-1.png)
![skinny, spiky black horse with armor-like texturing. The tail is arched over the horse's back and has a scorpion stinger.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-12.08.05---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-a-scorpion.png)
It sometimes can produce unexpected solutions to strange combinations. How to combine a four-legged horse with a two-legged rooster? Maybe as a three-legged animal.
![A slim horse with beak, wings, and rooster tail. It has three horse legs, two in front, and one in back.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-13.22.52---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-a-rooster.png)
For some animal-horse combinations, I found that it wouldn't be horse-shaped unless I added "horsie" to the end. So, here is "Product photo of a breyer horse model of godzilla horsie"
![Metallic grey horse toy with claws, a glowing red eye, and spiked mane. Tail is thick with dragon spikes.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-13.09.48---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-godzilla-horsie.png)
And "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a poison dart frog horsie"
![A slippery noodly-legged horse with red frog eyes and frog back legs and poison dart mottling.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-17.12.51---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-a-poison-dart-frog-horsie-1.png)
And "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a leaf-tailed gecko horsie"
![A bony, scaly horse toy with large gecko eye and striped tail. Face is very lizardy, though it also has a large pointed ear.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-17.51.16---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-a-leaf-tailed-gecko-horsie.png)
I hope you have enjoyed these.
![A green snail shell with a hairless white horse front half emerging from it. The horse has no mane, skinny ears, and a long drooping muzzle. Its back end is a pointed snail foot.](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2022/07/DALL-E-2022-07-21-17.24.20---Product-photo-of-a-breyer-horse-model-of-a-snail-1.png)
Bonus post: more horsies!