One of the biggest issues with the new “artificial intelligence” tools is what they provide: No matter what you’re looking for, the text and images it creates must come from somewhere, usually unknown authors and artists. . A small part of this problem can be solved with the latest Stability AI features. Stable Doodle, based on the famous Stable Diffusion AI engine, creates popular artworks, but uses your own drawings as a starting point.
The results are impressive. A quick and sloppy sketch on my iPad resulted in the AI images above, one of which will never see a small piece of paper in an office or be slapped on a greeting card. Stability AI claims that “anyone with basic photography skills and internet access can create high-quality images in seconds.” We’ve seen similar devices in the past, like Nvidia’s Canvas, but nothing quite as fast or amazing.
Stability claims seem to be true, but the tool doesn’t open as well as it first appears. In addition to the original image, Regular Doodle it asks for quick words to create pictures, the kind of idea of an AI system if it can’t tell Picasso your scribble should be Don Quixote. Deliberately omitting this word made my “dog” look like the kind of unwieldy mishmash you’d associate with AI technology from two or three years ago. It also seems to lean more on the text than on the image if they don’t know things. Changing my dog picture to a spaceship, but keeping the word “doggy”, resulted in… more dogs. Dogs that were very rare in space. One of them had an AI-generated “signature”.
“Look my friend, you put “doggy” in a box, and by god you’re going to get dogs, no matter how many ships you draw.”
Michael Crider / Foundry
For more information, users can choose between a number of pre-selected styles, from digital technology to portraits to the “origami” nose. It seems that all of these styles are based on trained images, so the narrative (or lack thereof) also brings up the ugly head. Sometimes the output seems to create its own images, with little guidance from the images.
However, it is fast and very advanced, so it can find the users it wants. Once the low-resolution preview images are created, you can select one to download in HD quality. Stability AI envisions Stable Doodle as a way for ordinary people to quickly create high-quality graphics for “displays and websites, or to create logos,” a representative told TechCrunch. You can try the service here, although you’ll need to create a free account to get multiple views.