The point I'm driving at is that most illustrators, given a commission like "cottagecore tech-adjacent young robert moses", would reply not with art but with something like "I have no idea what this means or what you want".
Cottagecore is not exactly a common term after all, it wasn't even clear to me until your reply that it's meant to be an aesthetic at all. For the curious, "Cottagecore, also known as farmcore and countrycore, is inspired by a romanticized interpretation of western agricultural life" [1].
That would be hard enough to draw because it's such an obscure term and even the Aesthetics Wiki doesn't seem to actually give many examples of it. But here it's being asked to modify the style to include "tech adjacency", and also a "young robert moses". Again, most artists would have no idea what this means without looking it up. Even I don't know what it means and I just did look it up (seems to have been some US public official in New York who was involved with centralised urban planning).
DALL-E by its nature can't refuse to draw a picture and so it came up with a looming besuited man with inviting looking cottages in his hands, in a sort of vaguely modern art style that de-emphasises photo realism. That seems pretty astoundingly on target. I don't think I could do better.
Edit: seems this next section is invalid because - indeed - the tweeter was giving DALL-E more than just the prompts he claimed to be giving it, sigh ... leaving it in for posterity
What's amazing about it, is that DALL-E seems able to pick up on very subtle social cues here. Hyper liberal types tend to dislike classical Renaissance style art that's very precise and realistic, much preferring more abstracted styles. Although nothing in the quote asks for a specific style - and assuming the tweeter didn't give more guidance than he claimed - it seems to have picked up that terms like "cottagecore" are only used by a very specific subset of the internet. The linked wiki page starts with a trigger warning, then goes on to explain that "Cottagecore has been also criticized for its romanticism of eurocentric farming life" and being "an inadvertent celebration of the aesthetics of colonialism". "The use of Cottagecore aesthetics has been adopted by the TradWives community and members of the far-right as forms of propaganda".
Again, this use of language is totally bizarre and weird. Maybe the people who use it don't realize how far from normal English they've drifted but DALL-E is clearly able to make the link between "this word appears mostly in web pages that also contain phrases like 'celebration of colonialism'" and "the sort of people who use this type of language like this type of art style". Which is exactly the sort of thing we'd expect it to be able to do given how it works and what else it's capable of, but it's still astounding.
>Edit: seems this next section is invalid because - indeed - the tweeter was giving DALL-E more than just the prompts he claimed to be giving it, sigh ... leaving it in for posterity
It's discussed elsewhere in the thread. Seems like he was requesting specific art styles (at least). So the idea that DALL-E is so smart it could figure out what art style you liked based on the social groups that use particular words was a neat theory but it seems, over-estimating things.
Cottagecore is not exactly a common term after all, it wasn't even clear to me until your reply that it's meant to be an aesthetic at all. For the curious, "Cottagecore, also known as farmcore and countrycore, is inspired by a romanticized interpretation of western agricultural life" [1].
That would be hard enough to draw because it's such an obscure term and even the Aesthetics Wiki doesn't seem to actually give many examples of it. But here it's being asked to modify the style to include "tech adjacency", and also a "young robert moses". Again, most artists would have no idea what this means without looking it up. Even I don't know what it means and I just did look it up (seems to have been some US public official in New York who was involved with centralised urban planning).
DALL-E by its nature can't refuse to draw a picture and so it came up with a looming besuited man with inviting looking cottages in his hands, in a sort of vaguely modern art style that de-emphasises photo realism. That seems pretty astoundingly on target. I don't think I could do better.
Edit: seems this next section is invalid because - indeed - the tweeter was giving DALL-E more than just the prompts he claimed to be giving it, sigh ... leaving it in for posterity
What's amazing about it, is that DALL-E seems able to pick up on very subtle social cues here. Hyper liberal types tend to dislike classical Renaissance style art that's very precise and realistic, much preferring more abstracted styles. Although nothing in the quote asks for a specific style - and assuming the tweeter didn't give more guidance than he claimed - it seems to have picked up that terms like "cottagecore" are only used by a very specific subset of the internet. The linked wiki page starts with a trigger warning, then goes on to explain that "Cottagecore has been also criticized for its romanticism of eurocentric farming life" and being "an inadvertent celebration of the aesthetics of colonialism". "The use of Cottagecore aesthetics has been adopted by the TradWives community and members of the far-right as forms of propaganda".
Again, this use of language is totally bizarre and weird. Maybe the people who use it don't realize how far from normal English they've drifted but DALL-E is clearly able to make the link between "this word appears mostly in web pages that also contain phrases like 'celebration of colonialism'" and "the sort of people who use this type of language like this type of art style". Which is exactly the sort of thing we'd expect it to be able to do given how it works and what else it's capable of, but it's still astounding.
[1] https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Cottagecore