Comment by poly2it

Comment by poly2it 2 days ago

23 replies

This filter seems to also change some architectural details and features, as well as degrade the quality of some materials in an unrealistic way.

mckirk 2 days ago

That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.

  • netsharc 2 days ago

    Huh, I wonder if they trained it by feeding it architectural renders and "what actually got built" photos...

    • simsla 2 days ago

      It's probably just prompt based. Actual fine-tuning for these kind of use cases is getting less common than it used to be.

      • IAmGraydon a day ago

        Likely. You can go into Nano Banana or ChatGPT right now, upload a pretty architectural rendering, and tell it to make it look old, weathered, winter, etc and it will come out looking very similar. Give it an example to really dial it in.

lambda 2 days ago

It's GenAI. It does something that's kind of like what you asked it to do, but it will skip some details or add other ones or whatever.

Dreary architectural pictures will be more likely to have electrical boxes, poor materials, etc, so when it moves the buildings from the latent space for cheery bright architectural renderings to dreary wet November architectural renderings, it will be more likely to add some of those details, because that's what's in its latent space.

Don't expect GenAI to be magic.

  • bloody_bocker a day ago

    Yeah - same things I noticed with people enthusiastically using genAI for old photo coloring. Initially it looks awesome, until you realize it can even alter the human face in such a way, that it no longer looks like that person.

    My father was really happy with some old photos colored, until I pointed out he does not look like him. Strangely enough he wasnt bothered...

  • kazinator 2 days ago

    I have a suspicion that the author of this might have asked the model for those utility boxes.

Tiberium 2 days ago

It's not a filter, it's an image editing model

  • poly2it 2 days ago

    This drink is not a smoothie, it is a blend of fruits and berries.

    • Tiberium 2 days ago

      In my mind "filter" is some specific algorithm that does a single expected transformation

      • henryfjordan 2 days ago

        "Filter" is a Tik-tok / snapchat / instagram parlance for any kind of overlay / transformation. It's grown larger than just sepia filters and similar. All the ones that do facial tracking and overlay a mustache or w/e is funny in the moment are also referred to as filters.

        See https://www.snapchat.com/lens

        • smohare 2 days ago

          Fair enough. But is there a need to propagate this abuse of the term?

          Might as well call advertising “fun programming breaks” while we are at it.

      • its_ethan 2 days ago

        There's a pretty clear expected transformation here though? It takes an image and then reduces the "shiny-ness" of it by giving it the same transformation: change the sky to overcast, add material degradation like rust, reduce the landscaping by adding weeds/puddles, and remove the happy looking people.

      • tomasphan 2 days ago

        Right, filtering is the reduction of information while diffusion/generation is creation.

        • viraptor 2 days ago

          It doesn't have to be a reduction. Swapping the colour channels would be a filter, but it's perfectly reversible.

  • Applejinx 2 days ago

    How is it not just a midjourney prompt? The liberties it takes seem to be better described by 'upload a picture, and AI will be told to make it dingier'. Can't people already do that ad nauseam?

teruakohatu a day ago

I put in an image and it generated piles of shipping pallets along a walkway.

It also added drainage that would actually improve the building.