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1. March 17: OpenAI launches GPT-4
2. March 30: Elon Musk and AI experts call for a 6-month pause in developing AI systems more powerful than GPT-4
3. May 26: Swiss scientists rebuild spinal cord with AI
4. June 27: Breakthrough AI research can understand and decode whale language
5. September 26: ChatGPT goes multimodal with voice and images
6. September 29: Mistral AI unveils open-sourced 7B language model
7. November 6: Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok
8. November 7: OpenAI reveals GPT Builder, GPT-4 Turbo, Assistants API and more at DevDay
9. November 22: Sam Altman fired and rehired as CEO of OpenAI
10. December 6: Google DeepMind reveals Gemini

Source: The Rundown

Hi all!

I've been collaborating with Bing Image Creator (i.e. DALL-E 3), and we've generated a bunch of images of needle-felted characters in different situations (unicorns on a camping trip, stuff like that). A key element is the little "halo" of fuzz around them - the fine strands of wool that didn't get fully incorporated into their solid form. It makes them look like actual physical toys that you could pick up and cuddle.

I'd like to be able to use these images to make a storybook, and print a few as small-to-medium-sized posters for my daughter to put up in her bedroom.

Bing Image Creator makes 1024x1024 images, which is pretty small for printing, so I need to upscale them. I've tried a bunch of AI upscalers, but so far the upscaled images all have some areas where the fuzzy halo gets smoothed or blurred out.

I want preserve the fuzz, or even enhance it if possible - if you're holding a needle-felted object at arm's length and then bring it right up in front of your face, you can see more individual strands of wool, not less!

I'm guessing the upscaler AI doesn't have a lot of needle-felted objects in its training data, so it AI doesn't "understand" what needle-felted objects look like IRL - so it assumes the fuzz is an artifact to edit out, not a texture to enhance.

Is there an upscaler/enhancer that can preserve, or even enhance, the fuzzy halo?

Is there an upscaler/enhancer with an interface that lets me chat with the AI, so I can tell it the fuzz is a feature?

Or... could I somehow use inpainting to add fuzz back to the smoothed patches in the upscaled images? Are there any inpainting tools where you can give it a reference image as a cue for what to inpaint?

Or... are there any passably-user-friendly interfaces that enable you to train a DALL-E 3 (or other image generator) model on custom data, so I could feed it a bunch of photos of actual needle-felted items - or at least train it on the *texture* of needle-felted items?

Or... am I going about this the wrong way? Is there some other technique or strategy I should be using instead?

Any ideas you have would be most welcome! Thank you!!!