ChatGPT plays around with an off-color Mona Lisa and goes really surreal!

On April 11 I did a post where Claude 3.7 commented on this image:

In this post I’m going to show you what happened when I asked ChatGPT to modify it in various ways. Here’s the first prompt I gave it: “I want you to make a copy of this image, but with a different color scheme. You choose the colors.” And here’s the result:

Notice how ChatGPT has changed the eyes, made them larger. The spotting pattern is different as well; it’s bled into her hair. But it has retained some of the texturing in the original, though toned down a bit. Finally, there’s a signature in the lower right, as in the original. But rather than the “WLB” in the original we have something the looks like a “W” stretched over an “O” followed by “16.”

That's very nice. Let's try it again, and this time do something with the background as well.

Now the whole background is different, as requested, and the shapes have changed a bit. There are no longer any spots in Mona Lisa’s hair and it’s differentiated between her robes and some under blouse, which you can see on her forearms. If you look carefully at the sky you can see the beginning of van Gogh swirls. Now look at the signature; we have a very clear “VG” followed by two vertical marks.

Very good. Now go completely wild. Go bonkers. And get more brightness in the image.

Wild it is! The van Gogh swirls are obvious. Notice the light green eye shadow. No look at the signature: “VB N”

Now, we’re cooking. How about a space rocket on a landing pad in the background.

And now we’ve got a space rocket. And the sky is totally van Gogh, albeit in a different register. Notice the signature.

yes yes yes Now I want a line of little green men walking down from the landing pad, crossing behind her and emerging on the left with the last one turned and facing toward us.

Whoops! Why’d the Chatster put those spacemen walking across her abdomen? Have to see if we can get rid of that. Again notice the signature.

OK. Now eliminate that line of little green men in front of the woman and make her robe a little darker.

Holy crap! Chatster got rid of the spacemen on her abdomen, and did a whole lot else besides. I won’t comment on all the changes except for two: 1) her eyes got really weird, and 2) there’s no signature at all. On the one hand, I really like this image. On the other hand, however, I wanted what I’d asked for. I decided that there was no point in trying to prompt ChatGPT into delivering what I wanted. It might work, but more than likely it wouldn’t.

I decided to go another way. I went back to the previous image and took it into Photoshop, where I got what I wanted in two steps. First I got rid of those extra green men. Then I altered the colors a bit.