I asked leonardo.ai to generate an image of itself. This is what it gave me.

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Reminds me of Deus Ex: Human Revolution

The developers probably added a pretty detailed prompt to the backend that the AI uses whenever someone asks it to do this. If I was making an AI, I would not risk it spitting out something scary when given this prompt.

Oh you mean Loab?

While cool, I am surprised this is considered noteworthy enough for an article. There's so much experimentation constantly going on with these models, what makes this special? It's more like the inspiration for a creepypasta.

I'm a pretty firm believer that Loab is a hoax "cryptid" due the unwillingness of the author to publish anything on the generation parameters. I think the author got one weird result from putting "Loab" in the negative prompt and then used img2img from there. Anyone who shows images of a "cryptid" they discovered but refuses to show proofs is untrustworthy in my opinion.

Hmm, seems like that's everyone claiming to have found a cryptid.

Weird.

Well yeah, by definition. If they share proof, it ceases to be a cryptid and simply becomes a discovery.

If I was in charge of one of these large AIs, I'd totally have it create the opposite of what OP got. I'd have it be some random eldritch horror creature any time anyone asks it to draw itself just for the fun of it.

Find a way to pull the users camera feed and have it mimic their face for extra fun

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He looks hot. AI clearly has a high opinion of itself. Wait…himself? Where do we stand on applying gender to AI??

It's not a person, doesn't have any sort of social characteristics, so it doesn't have a gender any more than a lamp with a very convincing fake beard.

Really depends on your language. In french lamps are females for example.

Lamps aren't female in French, they're feminine but this is purely grammatical and doesn't imply any social gender. It's just part of the word - see "fleuve" and "rivière", both words meaning river, one masculine one feminine.

so it doesn’t have a gender any more than a lamp with a very convincing fake beard.

Says you! My side table goes by the pronouns of she/her.

It is all and none of them.

I like to think the ai crafts a different image of itself based on who asks in order to make the meatbag more comfortable communicating.

This guy is like Leonardo's Loab. If your prompt is abstract enough eventually it'll give you some version of this guy. I have a ton I can post later, i gtg work now tho.

In reality all AIs avatars look like your average comicon/DnD convention visitor.

lots of really impressive detail, and realistic human anatomy.. very clear ideas about hair, facial lines, perhaps even attitude..

They probably wrote a very specific query to get this output, if the title is true at all.

Whats it running on? Guessing its just stable diffusion with a commonly available checkpoint, yeah?