My wife had just shown our kids some “kids' drawings transformed into 'real-life' animals,” and she suggested I try the same with our kids' drawings. My 9-year-old son C-Ko had drawn a silly picture of his sister A-Ko, so I asked ChatGPT play with it:
Prompt: Here is a drawing my son made. Can you render it as a photo-realistic human girl, but with the same form as depicted in the drawing? It's okay if it looks deformed.
Unsurprisingly, the result was some nightmare fuel, complete with the portrait borders rendered as hairy extensions of the legs. If you look closely, you can see that the girl is wearing a rose-colored blouse, but zoomed out it looks like stretched-out skin. The crotch looked a little too anatomical so I censored it.
Prompt: Try that again, but keep in mind that the outer square with the corners filled in are just a portrait border, not part of the subject. The wavy line under the figure is also not a part of the subject; it is the ground.
The hairy leg-square went away, and the blouse is a little more obivous although it still looks a bit like a stretched-out spine, but the wavy ground still rendered as legs, and again I felt the need to censor some anatomy.
Prompt: Here is the drawing with superfluous details removed. Ignore the blue lines (it was drawn on ruled paper) and use this a the new base for your rendering.
Finally, I got the kind of nightmare fuel I expected, and the clothing is much more obvious.