In the last two years I spent a lot of time having ChatGPT create new stories from old. I’d give it a story and ask it to create a new story on based on, but with a difference that I specified. It could make any other changes it wished. I wrote that work up in a working paper: ChatGPT tells stories, and a note about reverse engineering: A Working Paper, Version 3.
I’m now doing the same thing with images. Here’s a photo I shot of Manhattan’s West Side.
Here’s two copies that ChatGPT made. First I asked it to have an airship dock at the top. It appears to me that it had the airship dock at the top of a radio antenna, rather than the docking arm, which was never used as such. It made other changes as well. Notice, for example, where the Chrysler Building is, or what appears to be the Chrysler building, which wasn’t even visible in the original photo. Note also that it kept the airship.
I had it repeat the process, but this time making Empire State Building into a launch pad for a giant rocketship. It did that, but also kept the airship. The complement of buildings has change a bit as well. The Chrysler Buiding lookalike is gone.
I asked it to get rid of the airship. Which it did. The surrounding cityscape seems at bit different.
So I asked it to dump the airship. Which it did. But the rocket launcher has changed and the building appear to have been ‘re-skilled.’
Here’s another photo of the West Side. This one is centered on Hudson Yards, which is off to the left in the previous series.
Here’s what I told it to do in the copy: “Replace the buildings in the center along the shore with a space port that might be used to ferry passengers to and from space stations in orbit around the earth. Make any other changes you think are needed to make the photo consistent with that.” Here’s the result:
I have no idea where those rockets are being launched from.
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