AI picture era has taken massive leaps ahead within the final 12 months. It’s enjoyable to play with. It’s a bit of bit bizarre. It could possibly produce some mind-blowing outcomes — and infrequently laughable ones.
However is it helpful in a advertising and marketing context?
We determined to search out out, and our valiant search engine optimisation robotic, Roger, was volunteered to be our first check topic. Don’t fear, he was cool with it. He was really fairly excited to have a machine intelligence to interact with, after spending a lot time doling out search engine optimisation information to us easy people.

Coaching the mannequin
AI imagery instruments like Midjourney, Secure Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 are fairly superb at creating photographs of absolutely anything you’ll be able to provide you with, however they’ve their very own algorithmic and random-noise means of getting there. So whilst you can provide you with fascinating outcomes, it may be exhausting to provide you with a particular end result.
To get to something that really appeared like our pleasant search engine optimisation Mozbot, we wanted to coach a secure diffusion mannequin to get a begin. There are a number of methods to go about this, some that get fairly technical, and a lot of others that use app interfaces to make the method simpler on somebody with rather less technical experience.
We selected to start out with Astria, an answer which lets you customise (they name it tuning) a mannequin of your individual. A number of customers practice it on their very own likeness to make cool avatars (like the favored Lensa app), however we threw a bunch of variations of Roger in there, had him celebration with the AI mannequin, and watched what sort of shenanigans they acquired as much as.
A Rogues Gallery of Rogers
These instruments generate photographs primarily based on a textual content immediate, so our preliminary immediate was to see if it might output a model in a enjoyable and colourful 3D model.

Not dangerous first outcomes! It was clear this era drew closely from images of a Roger toy held in a hand, in addition to a photograph of our life-size Roger Mascot at considered one of our Mozcon occasions (thus, the folks within the background of among the photographs). These are all really recognizable as Roger, which I used to be impressed by, although none of them are fairly “proper”.
Time to attempt one thing in a totally completely different model. How about “Roger Mozbot with a rocket jetpack and fishbowl helmet, watercolor portray.”

Some tremendous enjoyable outcomes! And others that appear to be Roger is having a really dangerous time. Additionally, apparently the “rocket” a part of our immediate gave Roger some {hardware} in among the outcomes that made it appear to be his change was by accident set from Hugs to Destroy.
Additional iterations produced equally fascinating, enjoyable, horrible, and wacky outcomes as we messed round with different types together with extra 3D, schematics, youngsters’s ebook illustrations, and even Anime!




They simply maintain coming…
Need much more Roger mashups? We experimented additional with a device referred to as Scenario.gg, which is a device focused towards creating recreation property, but additionally has a nifty solution to practice a generator. A bonus of this one is that you should use an current picture as a place to begin for a era, permitting a bit of little bit of extra management in how shut or far you hew in direction of that place to begin. Listed here are a few of these outcomes:





When you’re following generative AI, you understand it’s an space evolving extremely quick proper now, with new instruments, options, and strategies continuously popping out. A pair weeks after the preliminary producing on Astria, we delved again in and so they have a video producing function now. Just a little trial and error later, we had a brilliant cool little video of Roger to go together with all these footage:
What have we completed?

We’ve put Roger via the AI ringer, however to what finish? Sorry Roger, it was all within the title of… SCIENCE! And studying. The preliminary experimental outcomes got here out with a ton of amount, however the high quality was not fairly there. Not less than for reproducing a model mascot with a particular look however that is probably not broadly disseminated sufficient to have been a topic of coaching on the fashions. If you’re rather less particular with the outcomes you are attempting to attain, AI imagery is already attaining jaw dropping outcomes. Ok that we’re discovering different methods to make use of this imagery in our advertising and marketing materials, and little doubt you may have seen some actually cool stuff in your varied feeds. For getting a high quality model of Roger in a brand new model or pose, it might be extra environment friendly to have an precise particular person simply illustrate or render the paintings within the conventional model.
As talked about on the high of the article, this know-how is growing quickly, and it looks as if the sport is altering each week with new fashions and new implementations that may make outcomes higher. As of the time of releasing this text, we’re already engaged on a brand new batch of Rogers utilizing different instruments, so look out for a observe up within the close to future.
Roger is consultant of a software program device that people can interface with to attain higher issues. Generative AI is a brand new and doubtlessly very highly effective such device in artwork, and for our functions, model design. Inventive and proficient persons are nonetheless wanted to information the method, make selections, and curate or cleanup the outcomes. So, right here’s to people and robots working collectively to attain fascinating issues! We’ll simply must see the place Moz and Roger go together with this subsequent.
AI picture era has taken massive leaps ahead within the final 12 months. It’s enjoyable to play with. It’s a bit of bit bizarre. It could possibly produce some mind-blowing outcomes — and infrequently laughable ones.
However is it helpful in a advertising and marketing context?
We determined to search out out, and our valiant search engine optimisation robotic, Roger, was volunteered to be our first check topic. Don’t fear, he was cool with it. He was really fairly excited to have a machine intelligence to interact with, after spending a lot time doling out search engine optimisation information to us easy people.

Coaching the mannequin
AI imagery instruments like Midjourney, Secure Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 are fairly superb at creating photographs of absolutely anything you’ll be able to provide you with, however they’ve their very own algorithmic and random-noise means of getting there. So whilst you can provide you with fascinating outcomes, it may be exhausting to provide you with a particular end result.
To get to something that really appeared like our pleasant search engine optimisation Mozbot, we wanted to coach a secure diffusion mannequin to get a begin. There are a number of methods to go about this, some that get fairly technical, and a lot of others that use app interfaces to make the method simpler on somebody with rather less technical experience.
We selected to start out with Astria, an answer which lets you customise (they name it tuning) a mannequin of your individual. A number of customers practice it on their very own likeness to make cool avatars (like the favored Lensa app), however we threw a bunch of variations of Roger in there, had him celebration with the AI mannequin, and watched what sort of shenanigans they acquired as much as.
A Rogues Gallery of Rogers
These instruments generate photographs primarily based on a textual content immediate, so our preliminary immediate was to see if it might output a model in a enjoyable and colourful 3D model.

Not dangerous first outcomes! It was clear this era drew closely from images of a Roger toy held in a hand, in addition to a photograph of our life-size Roger Mascot at considered one of our Mozcon occasions (thus, the folks within the background of among the photographs). These are all really recognizable as Roger, which I used to be impressed by, although none of them are fairly “proper”.
Time to attempt one thing in a totally completely different model. How about “Roger Mozbot with a rocket jetpack and fishbowl helmet, watercolor portray.”

Some tremendous enjoyable outcomes! And others that appear to be Roger is having a really dangerous time. Additionally, apparently the “rocket” a part of our immediate gave Roger some {hardware} in among the outcomes that made it appear to be his change was by accident set from Hugs to Destroy.
Additional iterations produced equally fascinating, enjoyable, horrible, and wacky outcomes as we messed round with different types together with extra 3D, schematics, youngsters’s ebook illustrations, and even Anime!




They simply maintain coming…
Need much more Roger mashups? We experimented additional with a device referred to as Scenario.gg, which is a device focused towards creating recreation property, but additionally has a nifty solution to practice a generator. A bonus of this one is that you should use an current picture as a place to begin for a era, permitting a bit of little bit of extra management in how shut or far you hew in direction of that place to begin. Listed here are a few of these outcomes:





When you’re following generative AI, you understand it’s an space evolving extremely quick proper now, with new instruments, options, and strategies continuously popping out. A pair weeks after the preliminary producing on Astria, we delved again in and so they have a video producing function now. Just a little trial and error later, we had a brilliant cool little video of Roger to go together with all these footage:
What have we completed?

We’ve put Roger via the AI ringer, however to what finish? Sorry Roger, it was all within the title of… SCIENCE! And studying. The preliminary experimental outcomes got here out with a ton of amount, however the high quality was not fairly there. Not less than for reproducing a model mascot with a particular look however that is probably not broadly disseminated sufficient to have been a topic of coaching on the fashions. If you’re rather less particular with the outcomes you are attempting to attain, AI imagery is already attaining jaw dropping outcomes. Ok that we’re discovering different methods to make use of this imagery in our advertising and marketing materials, and little doubt you may have seen some actually cool stuff in your varied feeds. For getting a high quality model of Roger in a brand new model or pose, it might be extra environment friendly to have an precise particular person simply illustrate or render the paintings within the conventional model.
As talked about on the high of the article, this know-how is growing quickly, and it looks as if the sport is altering each week with new fashions and new implementations that may make outcomes higher. As of the time of releasing this text, we’re already engaged on a brand new batch of Rogers utilizing different instruments, so look out for a observe up within the close to future.
Roger is consultant of a software program device that people can interface with to attain higher issues. Generative AI is a brand new and doubtlessly very highly effective such device in artwork, and for our functions, model design. Inventive and proficient persons are nonetheless wanted to information the method, make selections, and curate or cleanup the outcomes. So, right here’s to people and robots working collectively to attain fascinating issues! We’ll simply must see the place Moz and Roger go together with this subsequent.