A blog related to original AI artworks. I make AI artworks using coined words and emoji as prompts.

Why does AI only draw cityscapes by “Severini”, but diversifies when Severini is “negated”?

By specifying a single word as both a positive and negative prompt in Stable Diffusion 2.1, we can obtain a diverse range of images. I tried this method with Severiniʼs paintings.

If we specify only the positive prompt with Severiniʼs name, the generated cityscapes will have a similar style.

As shown below, many of Severiniʼs paintings on the internet are abstract works. However, it is not clear why AI art with the Severini prompt tends to draw cityscapes. When asked about this, ChatGPT cited that Severini “had drawn many works with the theme of cities and industrialization,” which could be the reason. In short, it can be said that it was because Severini was a futurist.

On the other hand, by also specifying “Severini” as the negative prompt, we can obtain a variety of attractive images. Only a few are shown here.