From the course: DALL-E: the Creative Process and the Art of Prompting

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People, portraits, and photorealism

People, portraits, and photorealism

- [Instructor] One of the most common requests for AI is generating realistic versions of our human selves. I believe there's something intrinsically fascinating for us in witnessing a computer program attempting to capture that nuanced humanity and also watching it fail, as it creates bizarre and often comical errors. Oh man, this, this poor guy. So in this video, we're going to discuss the various techniques I've learned through experience. All right, introduction to realistic portraits. Now, my first rule of thumb for the best humans is to keep it simple. Remember, DALL-E is trained on millions and millions of reference photos. And of those, thousands and thousands are photos of people in basic settings. So using prompts that tap into those sources will yield some incredible results. Here, let's start with an example. I'm going to type in the prompt. A happy grandmother over a great background. and the…

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