“Loab” was initially produced using a technique called “negative weighting.” Usually, when using an AI image generator, you’re attempting to make your AI produce whatever image it can that it believes most closely resembles a verbal prompt. Negative weighting allows you to do the opposite. (Warning: some creepy/gross images follow)
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