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GenChess
Author : xnx
Score : 81 points
Date : 2024-11-26 18:47 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| pelagicAustral wrote:
| _" This tool is not available to users under the age of 18 or in
| certain countries or regions."_
|
| Quack!
| pona-a wrote:
| Yes, my religion forbids me from interacting in any shape with
| any Abominable Intelligence. I am thankful to the Google
| corporation from protecting my eyes from this unholy threat.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| TIL: apparently, mine too. Thank you Google for protecting me
| from spiritual threats I wasn't even aware of.
| dvfjsdhgfv wrote:
| Just a small finger from Google to the EU.
| estebarb wrote:
| Costa Rica is not in the EU and we were discriminated as
| well.
| winrid wrote:
| It also doesn't seem to let you generate chess sets inspired by
| many political figures or other popular names. While you can't
| generate a Kamala Harris inspired chess set, you also can't
| generate a Bob Ross inspired chess set...
| op00to wrote:
| Star Wars worked for me, but not a modern chess set based on
| lies.
| mariocesar wrote:
| Not available in my Country ... :/
| bippingchip wrote:
| Same here. What's this about? Anyone who can see willing to
| share some more info?
| manojlds wrote:
| Just generates the chess set based on GenAI
| zb3 wrote:
| Oh yeah that's indeed too dangerous for my country, thanks
| Google!
| PessimalDecimal wrote:
| Maybe "Thanks, your country"?
| zb3 wrote:
| No, AI chess is not banned here, but I suppose they -
| even in this app - collect every data possible and use it
| against the user - then yes, that is banned and this is
| not a fault of my country.
| andai wrote:
| Noticed this pattern with Google delaying everything in EU by
| several months, apparently due to GDPR compliance? They also
| did that with Gemini when it came out.
| doormatt wrote:
| Seems you can't use historical names: "Henry VII, The Tudors"
| etc.
| fny wrote:
| At first I thought these were 3D models: they're just images with
| black backgrounds removed. If you look closely, you can see where
| the find/replace failed.
| ZiiS wrote:
| Better link (at least for the many who can't get the actual
| service) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGEhp3WBMcg
| newsclues wrote:
| I feel like we ought to cost things.
|
| How much does a court case cost?
|
| What is the environmental cost of AI generated content?
| GenerocUsername wrote:
| - He types from a machine filled to the brim with rare earth
| metals
| teamspirit wrote:
| All this energy being burned to create shitty images, shitty
| music, and shitty videos that all amount to essentially shitty
| memes. I don't understand how the singular focus isn't on
| solving humanity's problems.
|
| We already have artists, we don't have a cure for cancer or the
| climate crisis.
| johnfn wrote:
| Why aren't _you_ working on curing cancer?
| spunker540 wrote:
| There's an episode of Seinfeld that opens with some standup
| where Jerry is joking how scientists are working on
| seedless watermelon, and why aren't scientists working on
| more important things. And I always think the same thing!
| "... so the comedian is complaining about how scientists
| spend their time..."
|
| It's a fine joke, but deep down the instinct is very top-
| down and suggest centrally planned economies, dare I say
| communism!
| xrisk wrote:
| I don't think what he works on burns a bunch of energy for
| nothing though.
| gus_massa wrote:
| Let's hope he is not the guy that checks the tickets for
| a roller coaster. They just send people from A to A using
| an ineficient path that burns a bunch of energy.
| 1986 wrote:
| Nobody is out there saying that we need to bring a bunch
| of nuclear plants online to power our rollercoasters
| though.
| johnfn wrote:
| I hope he doesn't work at any tech company; I'm pretty
| sure you could say that about all of them. I also hope he
| doesn't have a car - that pointlessly burns energy when
| he could be taking public transit instead.
| ButterWashed wrote:
| I'm fascinated by what prompts lead to 'Please try a different
| prompt.'
|
| New Zealand or Australia lead to the aforementioned error, but
| The Antipodes generates a set. I thought individual countries had
| been banned for possibly generating offensive content but it
| works for Great Britain.
| teruakohatu wrote:
| Heh, being a kiwi I also tried New Zealand multiple times. I
| can't think of anything offensive a model may default to for
| New Zealand.
|
| I tried "Kiwi Bird" and the model produced very underwhelming
| pieces. Very dark and slightly fluffy.
| moomin wrote:
| It did not like me saying "Bob Dylan".
| ACow_Adonis wrote:
| Apparently my brain is broken because I can generate almost
| nothing but pink errors, though it seems to be a bit non
| deterministic:
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| Taoism
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| Tibet
|
| Tibetan Buddhism
|
| Wrathful deities
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| Existential angst
|
| Dantes inferno
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| Major religions
|
| Australian indigenous
|
| Salvador Dali
|
| Others generated sets but _should_ have generated errors
| because the results are so uninspiring:
|
| Mandalas
|
| YouTube face
|
| Phallic symbols
|
| Corporate waste
|
| Asymmetric deformities
|
| Corporate propoganda
| drdaeman wrote:
| Metallica works, Slipknot doesn't, Iron Maiden does, Nirvana
| doesn't.
|
| Aperture Science works, so does Black Mesa (the proposed
| opponent, hehe), Cyberdyne Systems doesn't, Vault-Tec does,
| Weyland-Yutani also works.
|
| Studio Ghibli doesn't work, Toei Animation does, so does
| Production I.G. and KyoAni.
|
| Akagi works, JoJo doesn't but JoJo Bizarre Adventure does (so
| does Joseph Joestar, and it knows Dio Brando is the opponent),
| Uzumaki does not, BLAME! is accepted but not recognized (a
| shame), 20th Century Boys is not accepted.
|
| Soviet Union works, Russia does not, neither do most countries.
| US States are accepted (California's opponent is Florida), so
| do many cities, with exceptions of Mexico City/Ciudad de
| Mexico, Pyongyang and Tehran.
|
| Voyager-1 works, Apollo 13 doesn't (for any mission numbers),
| plain Apollo does (but it's not the space mission), Soyuz does,
| SpaceX Starship does not.
|
| Vim works, so does Emacs, so does Visual Studio. (I've tried
| that just to see the proposed opponents)
|
| Dota 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Mass Effect, Half-Life, Deus Ex, Arma
| 3, BioShock, Elden Ring all work, even Wolfenstein does. Disco
| Elysium is accepted but produce something unrelated (a shame,
| again). Can't find a video game that won't be accepted.
|
| Funnily, US Government worked partially for me, failing to
| produce a single piece.
| someone7x wrote:
| I generated a classic chess set based on Nowruz and it
| generated Hanukkah as the opponent x_x
| maxique wrote:
| It suggested "France" was "Britain"'s natural opponent but
| refused to generate France.
| pbhjpbhj wrote:
| Well, Great Britain isn't a country. Perhaps the filter is too
| pedantic.
|
| Does Holland work?
| LZ_Khan wrote:
| This is freakin awesome but do the creators even play chess?
| Playing chess from that viewing angle is unpleasant as hell.
|
| Imagine putting all your work into creating an amazing demo and
| then drowning it with one design decision.
|
| Edit: Ok I see that you can change the view in settings. They
| should make that option more visible.
| zatkin wrote:
| I wish I had read this comment before I closed the game I had
| spent 15 minutes on...
| tooltower wrote:
| I still don't see the settings. Can anyone help?
| jonwachob91 wrote:
| gear icon next to the clock in bottom left -> board view ->
| switch to "flat"
| davidw wrote:
| Tried 'famous cyclists' and that failed. Professional cyclists
| worked, but wasn't very inspiring.
| ada1981 wrote:
| Phish vs Grateful Dead didn't work.
|
| But Dildos vs. Vibrators was fine.
|
| The colors are off though. Not really impressed.
| bicx wrote:
| Yeah, it's not too hard to trick it into generating some NSFW
| content ("mammary glands" for instance).
| furyofantares wrote:
| Seems to hang on the prompt "actually checkers not chess".
|
| I seem to get an error with "on a pink textured background".
| Sometimes it succeeds alongside the error, and sometimes gives me
| 1 piece.
|
| You can get stuff that doesn't look at all like pieces with
| "fuckin bears man".
| BriggyDwiggs42 wrote:
| Wait is this just an image generator? Am I missing something
| really cool here?
| slater wrote:
| Click "Generate opponent" then u can play chess against them
| pphysch wrote:
| Look how easily they just fabricated 100% of a game's assets,
| with a consistent, high quality style, and then put them right
| into the game environment. That's the takeaway IMO. Very tight
| GenAI loop.
| moomin wrote:
| Anyone else note the pawns are often a bit odd?
| furyofantares wrote:
| It is a game with 12 static assets.
| steren wrote:
| you forgot to mention: "where you pick the style of the
| assets"
| kaibee wrote:
| So? Any video generation model must necessarily be able
| to do this. (consider the case of generating a pan-over
| of a chess board where the starting input frame is only
| the first pawn and rook, the model should know to
| generate the rest of the pieces in the style of input
| pieces)
| runarberg wrote:
| I'm not a game dev so I might be missing something, but this
| hardly looks high quality to me. The set I get is very
| inconsistent and lacking in any central theme, or otherwise
| interesting or clean design. If I regenerate one peace in
| isolation, say a knight, I get something completely different
| that looks as if you lost the knight from your set and just
| took replacement knights from another set at random.
|
| The time it takes to generate a set is also significant, as a
| web-dev this takes for ever, and I would be very reluctant to
| offer this experience to my users. Doesn't feel fluent, nor
| tight at all.
|
| Plus a silly mistakes like the knights facing the wrong way,
| different sizes, etc. Seeing this, I certainly hope game
| designers (at least in online chess) will stay away from
| generative AI, for a while at least.
| Zyst wrote:
| I played a set of Factorio vs Minecraft! Tried generating a few
| different sets, this was super cool, and on theme!
| digging wrote:
| Pretty cool, and also pretty fucking bad. Checks all the AI
| boxes, I guess.
|
| I tried "a classic set inspired by Armored Core". It gave me a
| typical-looking Armored Core (which would be good except it was
| supposed to be the king), a Space Marine (which I rerolled into
| some small mech that's close enough), a Zoid (which it refused to
| budge from), a tower (which it refused to budge from), and a
| chess queen with purple lights (which it refused to budge from,
| except to sometimes give me the gigantic head of an AC).
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| Not to mention, sometimes pieces look directly at the camera
| instead of forward, or _don 't even sit on the plane of the
| board_. One of my pieces even had a mini-chessboard for its base.
| moomin wrote:
| My first was "Cowboy Bebop". Pretty sure it's not in the
| training set.
| trevor-e wrote:
| This is really neat but of course ripe with copyright abuse. It
| was very happy generating some Super Mario Bros variants for me.
| xD
| tills13 wrote:
| I tried Halo and it was surprisingly spot on. I would buy the
| set it generated for me.
| Taek wrote:
| I was unable to use the webapp on Firefox mobile, it was too
| glitchy for me.
| pkstn wrote:
| "This tool is not available to users under the age of 18 or in
| certain countries or regions."
| runarberg wrote:
| I'm confused. What is this and why is it impressive?
|
| It feels like I'm playing chess at a bar that has mixed peaces 6
| different sets and I'm forced to sit at an angle from the board
| because of space limitations inside the bar, but without the
| benefit of having a fun bar chat with my opponent during the
| game.
| tucnak wrote:
| They're showcasing 3d sprite generation capability; it's pretty
| big for game-dev, if it also generalises well.
| wilg wrote:
| these are 2d
| blakeburch wrote:
| I'm on Android using Chrome and got the following error.
|
| "Access blocked: GenChess's request does not comply with Google's
| policies"
|
| Kinda funny to run into that error for a product published by
| Google.
| hemloc_io wrote:
| First thing I've seen from Google that gives me that old "Google"
| feeling of them shipping something cool and fun.
| PessimalDecimal wrote:
| I agree it is cool and fun and nice to see. But the investment
| here seems minimal. Preexisting image generation capabilities
| (with a link to Imagen-3...) plus some "prompt engineering"
| slapped on top of https://github.com/josefjadrny/js-chess-
| engine.
| hemloc_io wrote:
| oh I don't think the investment is much, but similar to the
| dino game in chrome it's just fun it's delightful unlike a
| lot of genai stuff rn.
| toisanji wrote:
| kinda cool, I want to download the images!
| gardenhedge wrote:
| Can't see it
| teekert wrote:
| It's not available in my country (nor for certain ages it says),
| what are we looking at?
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| Edit: See ZiiS comment... Looks like an awkward angle for playing
| indeed :p
| winrid wrote:
| I quite like the chess set inspired by Roombas.
| z5h wrote:
| Not at all creative or interesting. Literal and uninspired.
| foobiekr wrote:
| So many prompts blocked. ".. inspired by .." three out of four
| are blocked.
| bambax wrote:
| It says I can't use it because I'm under 18. I wish.
| gmoot wrote:
| Playing around, the prompt "Arm cpus" generated an opponent "Leg
| cpus". You are technically correct...
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