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Thank you for your legwork! I recently experimented with AI generated images and was scandalized at the rubbish generated. BetterimagesofAI seems hopeful. Thanks again!

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Thanks Anu. Rubbish is right! Yes, I think as that gets more populated it will be pretty good. Hopefully they will add a search engine at some point.

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An absolutely fascinating post, Terry, and showing such diverse results. Poor Willow being animated upside down....! Have you come across Midjourney? I've seen it used in photography circles. I don't have much experience at all in using AI tools, but from what I've seen it's rather better than Substack's own image generator.

Really liked your Perplexity profile. 😁

Thank you for a really great read - I've learned so much, and will be looking at it again in the future. 🙌

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Thanks, Rebecca. I've never really trie midjourney, mainly because I didn't really want yet another Discord account. Also, I wanted to look at ones that seemed to me less well known and newer. I suppose I ought to give midjourney a try though.

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Don't feel you have to, Terry! It's something I've come across in Jim's line of work, and it looks pretty clever. I hear you about having too many accounts for things! 😁

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I thought Jim's photos were too good to have been done by a human bean, including the ones he took of us. So it's bin Mid-Journey all the time?😱 😂

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This is incredibly useful! I'm saving it for when I'm back in the classroom next year. So great.

Now - you don't have to take my advice and I know you won't if you don't want to 🤣 - but I want to add that this article is ripe for sharing and may benefit from lack of paywall? I, for one, would readily share it on LinkedIn and in my other teacher groups I am a part of. It could even go viral...

4 hours of research. Even if it remains for your paid subs, never fear it will be useful for us!

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Thanks very much, Kathleen. Well first of all, I really appreciate your taking the time and trouble to suggest things. As it happens, I was wondering about making it free to all, and considered using that setting whereby the paywall disappears after a while, but then I thought perhaps paying people should have first dibs. Anyway, I'll open it up soon, and thanks very much for offering to share it on linkedin and the teacher groups you belong to, that's very kind of you.

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It’s really good. So much better than what I’ve seen when I was having a peruse for said purpose.

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Your wish is my command, Kathleen. It is now open to all. Thanks for your encouragement.

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That's great to hear, Kathleen.

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Dec 9, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

Wow, what a fantastic resource, Terry. I didn't know of most of these! It's crazy how rapidly the field has evolved this year.

(Also, I seem to have access to ChatGPT and DALL-E without paying ... 🤷‍♂️ The latter via my personal email that's linked to my Microsoft account and the former I just signed up for on their website about six months ago.)

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Thanks, Nathan. I have access to the older versions of both, without paying. But Dall-E version 2 seems to have lost lots of my pics, and is a bit flakey. Bing Image Creator uses Dall-E version 3, free to MS Office account holders., so that woukld explain your ability to access them I think.

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Dec 9, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

Aha, yes, that'll be it for Bing and DALL-E 3 then. Thanks!

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Yes that's right, Nathan. By the way, Rebecca mentioned midjourney. I know you use it a lot. How do you think it compares with the ones I've mentioned here?

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I've actually stopped using it for the last few months because I stopped paying for it. With dall-e improving and the inbuilt Substack image generator, I felt it wasn't necessary. I still think Midjourney is one of the best, though.

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Dec 9, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

I’m definitely ‘getting my money’s worth’ on this post. I’ve just finished rereading it for a third time. Very interesting though as usual some bits of AI-generated work are hilarious and some are definitely disturbing. Thanks so much for doing the legwork for us. It’s appreciated.

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Thanks, Beth. Appreciate it :-)

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Dec 8, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

OMG….!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for your time Professor Freedman. A fascinating collection of… stuff. I can certainly see which software versions I WON’T be using! I started off cackling, then got horrified, then … well, a real roller coaster of emotions anyway. The forehead hat brim! The weird hands and eyes (I’m amazed how good some of your results actually were!)

I’m always terrified of seeing myself in one of these created beings. Now that you’ve fed yourself into the machinery you may well find yourself popping up in all sorts of places. Shudder.

A fascinating exploration. Thank you for your time and work.

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Thanks, Beth. Yes I was pleasantly surprised by some of the results. I thought See Art was pretty good for the photographic quality of the people images.I didn't think about the potential downside of feeding myself into the machinery!

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I like Bing's image creator best as well. Weird result from perplexity though🤔

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Fancy being misunderstood by a bot 😱

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