it's better than we think

posted this on r/crochet but no one believed me and it got taken down so i'm here :///

i saw the dragon post and the debate on is it AI or not, so i wanted to share these AI generated images i created to prove the point that AI is better than we think.

all these images were created with Imagen 3 (a free AI image generation model released by Google recently) i didn't use any fancy tools or specialized knowledge to create these images, just simple text prompts, some of them even written by AI itself (Gemini, also free)

these are the links to the generations + you can see each of the prompts i used. you can even remix it and edit it to tweak the details.

axolotl https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx/4ugmr9m2g0000 tank top https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx/1nmhjnhjv0000 sweater https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx/5t9gavcm70000 miffy https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx/14mu2kq290000 blanket https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx/0e1556c490000

was also accused of stealing these images from other people and passing them off as AI (???) no doubt google is definitely scraping images from somewhere and it could well be someone's photo but when i ran the reverse image search the first and only exact match was my own post.

also images generated by Imagen (google) have an invisible watermark (SynthID) that tells AI image detectors something is AI-generated, if anyone wants to double check

disclaimer: i have to use these AI tools a lot in my job and i crochet + knit as a hobby so when i saw this new model released with demo pictures using crochet i just had to try it out myself