Cover versions: recreating Iconic album art with AI

I’m a massive New Order fan.

If you know me, or have ready any of the blogs on the Diagonal Thoughts website, you’ll probably know this already.

Bored, one Saturday afternoon, I set off on another AI experiment as I pondered how GPT Vision and Dall-E could work with each other. Or even despite of each other…

With Vision able to ‘see’ images, and Dall-E capable of creating images from a prompt, I figured it would be interesting to see if I could get Chat-GPT to look at artwork - plus a couple of photos - from New Order (and their predecessor Joy Division), describe it in detail, then re-create the art in a completely new thread using only the description that ChatGPT had provided.

Check the results out in the gallery here, and if you’re not familiar with the originals, check them out on your favourite music service.