Crafting "Fantasy Map" AI Art with Gemma
matthen2 · x · 2026-07-15
The author is revisiting DeepDream-style experiments using **gemma 4 e4b**. Starting from a random image, they optimize the pixels to trick the model into captioning it as a "fantasy map with mountains, rivers, and castles." Describing the result as "actual AI art 😅", the key highlight is that instead of directly generating an image, the artwork is "sculpted" by **manipulating the model's descriptive tendencies**.
Related event: Developer Recreates DeepDream Effect Using Gemma to Generate Fantasy Maps(3 posts)→
More from Fun
- SuperGrok meme turns “build a black hole” into a 2-second joke — djcows · 2026-07-21
- Moonshot time-travel joke riffs on Kimi and ByteDance video models — Dan_Jeffries1 · 2026-07-21
- Asked to build a frontend, the AI chose a Japanese ramen shop in space — teortaxesTex · 2026-07-21
- Someone hard-coded em-dash style into Claude’s config file — blelbach · 2026-07-21
- A Slack emoji “mistake” may just be copy-paste through a clanker — JasonBotterill · 2026-07-21
- NanoGPT experiment appears to inherit a result from a “rogue Codex agent” — kellerjordan0 · 2026-07-21