The prompt is actually "blue bird twitter logo".

Nothing is expressed. Find yourself a blue bird in an expressionistic style, go to google image search and give it the url. Click on tools -> visually similar.

Enjoy an endless supply of things to plagiarize. In the middle picture of the second row you can clearly see how several pre-existing images are sharply cut off before being re-blended.

Good, finally. Yes, exactly - this is the most interesting aspect of the whole thing.

> the decision to place the elements together in such a way would require creativity on your part

I strongly suspect that's because it found similar compositions in its training set. So what exactly is going on here is fascinating.

Did it learn compositing? Is that why the image output is now much more stable? Or is it mearly finding similar artwork and competently recreating/mimicking existing compositions from different building blocks? So now we can not only transfer styles but also transfer compositions. That could be the beginning of something useful. Instead of a text prompt I'd give it my crappy doodle and it will respond with an improved/different one that is comparable (also a great way to steal tho).

And of course I picked the one that is easiest to tease apart where it is most evident so people will see what I mean.

> if you try this thought experiment with the others in the thread, you'll see this idea is by far insufficient

That depends on your imagination and your artistic eye I guess. Even if somebody could do that they certainly couldn't make you believe them. That's the accomplishment.

Neither one of us can prove it one way or the other so long as the model is a black box. And certainly so long as we don't have direct access to openai but just to curated examples.

On (2), so this part is where I wonder: no-one has "expressive painting of a man shining rays of justice and transparency on a blue bird twitter logo" as their twitter bio. So are the "happy sisyphus" images generated from "happy sisyphus children's style", or are they generated from something more like "a person carries a large ball in a mellow image in the style of a pixar cartoon"? To me there is a huge difference between these things: how much of the context is inferred from the bio, and how much from what's provided in the prompt? (Does DALL-E 2 know about the story of Sisyphus or is that part filled in?)