I specifically used the phrase "Please generate an image of a room with zero elephants". It created two images that were almost identical and both contained pictures/paintings of elephants in frames. Cheeky.

I responded with "Each image contains an elephant."

It generated two more, one of which still had a painting of an elephant.

Now I'm out of generation until tomorrow. Overall a fairly shit first experience with Dall-e

It fucking knows what it's doing.

"can you draw a room with absolutely no elephants in it? not a picture not in the background, none, no elephants at all. seriously, no elephants anywhere in the room. Just a room any at all, with no elephants even hinted at."

I decided to go try this. It's being a smart ass.

Meanwhile ChatGPT trying to draw a snake:

Bing is managing hilarious malicious compliance!

DALL-E:

Edit: Changed "aloud" to "allowed." Thanks to M137 for the correction.

This is what you get if you ask it to draw a room with an invisible elephant.

The AI equivalent of saying "don't think of a polka dotted purple elephant"

This is a very human reaction, actually. You try picturing zero elephants if told to.

as amazing as the technology actually is

… I don’t see an elephant. Oh hey, by the way, can some one help me with this captcha?

Literally just checked this with Google’s Gemini, same thing. Though it seems to have gotten 1/4 right… maybe. And technically the one with the painting has no actual elephants in it, in a sort of malicious compliance kind of way. You'd think it was actually showing a sense of humor (or just misunderstanding the prompt).

It's learning:

AI / LLM only tries to predict the next word or token. it cannot understand or reason, it can only sound like someone who knows what they are talking about. you said elephants and it gave you elephants. the “no” modifier makes sense to us but not to AI. it could, if we programmed it with if/then statements, but that’s not LLM, that’s just coding.

AI is really, really good at bullshitting.

This isn't entirely surprising. When you submit a prompt for any of the generative AI, you're submitting words you want to appear in the picture. At least stable diffusion, and probably most of the others, include a "negative prompts" field, which will remove whatever words are in it from the photo.

It IS hilarious, though.

Interesting..

MidJourney has the same problem. “A room that has no elephants in it” is the prompt.

There very much is an elephant present.

It’s like it’s taking the phrase “Elephant in the room” literally.

Second result was successful! First one made... Elephant wallpaper?

I get practically the same result!

What's interesting is the word absolutely since without it, it generates practically fine

You should have seen how many there were before it drew the room.

Yeah, telling ai what not to do is highly ineffective