[b450]

I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol

https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

[palmotea]

For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if

[echelon]

It's funny to see as a joke, but you can go the other way with this too. Image editing models and LoRAs for "previz-to-render upscaling" workflows are actually incredibly useful.

I was just writing about this (scroll about halfway down to the images of Sam Altman - though if you like that, do watch the second video):

https://getartcraft.com/news/world-models-for-film

The best model I've found for this, that almost bakes in full ControlNet capability, is oddly gpt-image-1.5. It's absolutely OP at understanding how to turn low-fidelity renders into final draft upscales.

Here are some older experiments:

https://imgur.com/a/previz-to-image-gpt-image-1-5-3fq042U

https://imgur.com/gallery/previz-to-image-gpt-image-1-x8t1ij...

https://imgur.com/aOliGY4

I just wish it didn't require invoking such heavy-weight, slow, and expensive models to do this. I'm sure open models will do this work soon, though.

[GenerocUsername]

It's funny how know your meme has to sanitize the 4chan out of memes.

The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.

[lostlogin]

What’s going on with that (robot?) dog leash?

[rollinDyno]

This is just Moscow

[CGMthrowaway]

OK this is too fun. I did Reverse Anti-Render on a dreary scene in Moscow:

https://imgur.com/a/mqMEPUl

[comonoid]

It seems you haven't been to Moscow for the last 20 years. With all the oil money + cheap workforce it looks much better than EU capitals.

It is rather Novosibirsk.

[ErroneousBosh]

Or Dundee. The third "after" pic needs more Surron tracks up the grassy bank though.

[wiseowise]

Too clean.

[fredley]

As someone in the UK, this was especially chilling.

[varispeed]

For context, internet has been nerfed in the UK, because of Epstein scandal politicians there started thinking too much of the children.

[Toutouxc]

Looks like Machinarium. I like it.

[sebmellen]

What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!

[CodesInChaos]

Your image made the reddit front page: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/1qrwa2l/society_with...

[tucnak]

> Thank you for submitting to /r/memes. Unfortunately, your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):

> Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES AND FOLLOW A GENERAL MEME FORMAT

> All posts must be memes following typical setup/design: an image/gif/video with some sort of caption; mods have final say on what is (not) a meme

Reddit mods, man.

[Imustaskforhelp]

I was also wondering how the image got 16k+ views (as of now) (the stat was on imgur)

I was wondering what/how many HN users clicked on the image (not knowing it was uploaded to reddit too)

But now I seriously wonder out of those 16k (as of now), how many were/are from the hackernews community and how many from reddit.

[TeMPOraL]

For however brief a moment. It's gone now.

[lloydatkinson]

Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked

[Analemma_]

If you're in the UK in January, you can probably just look outside and that's approximately it.

[RealCodingOtaku]

The rimigo proxy works for me: https://rimgo.vern.cc/a/nFQN5tx

[reallydoubtful]

The link is blocked by imgur themselves, not the British government (authoritarian or otherwise), because the ICO was going to fine them for historic poor handling of children's data. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

[Imustaskforhelp]

> Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked

Here you go. I had it uploaded after hearing from the magospietato's comment but then saw you talk about the same so I am pasting the same image link here as well

https://files.catbox.moe/c4smhd.png

[nicbvs]

This looks like the average abandoned World's fair location from the 2000s

[jansan]

That may be quite close to the truth. Here are pictures from some abandones pavilions from the 2000 World Expo in Hannover. Sad to see this, as I lived in Hannover at that time and had a really good time at the Expo.

https://vergesseneorte.com/die-expo2000-in-hannover/

[HPsquared]

Looks like a lot of the "millennium" architecture (late 90s-early 00s) we have around my home city.

[magospietato]

Complete aside, but it's beyond infuriating I need to enable a VPN here in the UK to view this link.

[HPsquared]

It's ironic because it looks like a picture of a dilapidated 2000s "millennium park" type of location which are common in the UK.

[Imustaskforhelp]

> Complete aside, but it's beyond infuriating I need to enable a VPN here in the UK to view this link.

Here, I uploaded the image to catbox.moe if anyone's interested.

https://files.catbox.moe/c4smhd.png

I don't think that catbox is blocked within the UK.

[junon]

This was the first thing I thought of, and it's gotten the hug of death now; thank you for uploading it.

[ricardobeat]

So the future looks like... Germany?

[Gibbon1]

If it could add mold and rust stains to the concrete it'd be perfect.

[jbverschoor]

Wrong country

[culhatsker]

the world if autumn comes

[Kye]

This looks like a scene out of Enterprise.

[smsm42]

Ugh, this looks way too real...

[vvpan]

You are a genius.