A blog related to original AI artworks. I make AI artworks using coined words and emoji as prompts.

Exploring Image Variation by Specifying Only My Name as Positive Prompt and Diversifying with Negative Prompts

I considered using my name (Yasusi Kanada) as a prompt. Here is the reason: Creating images with short prompts is something anyone can do. If interesting images can be created this way, and if the prompt is publicly available and does not reflect my “rights,” anyone can copy it. While the prompt can be tried if it is public, if it reflects my “rights,” it might be harder to imitate. That is why I chose to use only my name (or with “painting”) as the prompt.

To generate a variety of images, it is conceivable to include other words besides my name in the prompt. However, if I specify too many words as positive prompts, my name will have less contribution to the generated image. In particular, since there are likely to be few training images associated with my name, the contribution of other words is expected to be large. In other words, if there are more words in the prompt that are associated with a larger number of images, those words will play dominant role in the generated image.

I initially thought this method might not produce a wide range of images, but trying it out yielded a surprisingly diverse set of images. In fact, it seems like my name contributes less, similar to layering positive prompts.

First, here are examples without specifying negative prompts.

While I provided relatively successful examples, they still do not seem very interesting.

When specifying my name as a part of the negative prompt, the resulting images seem more interesting compared to not specifying negative prompts.

Since I found that using only my name does not create very interesting images (because of too low occurrence frequency), I tried various other words as negative prompts. As a result, it became clear that including the names of ukiyo-e artists is effective. I will write about them separately, along with specifying painters and manga artists, as they tend to produce relatively abstract images.

These images were created around October last year. I have finally uploaded them to this site recently, making them viewable. The reason why I am writing this article now.