My wife pointed out that most of my shirts predate the pandemic, and it was time to shop for something new.

This is not something I enjoy.

So, like most things I don’t enjoy, I decided to try and delegate it to AI.

I started playing around with image generators. I used the prompt “Full body image of a 50 year old male startup CEO”. We have an internal tool at Glowforge that lets us generate images from any and all image LLMs in a single go, so this was easy.

From left to right that’s Chatgpt, Chatgpt mini, Seedream, Reve, Ideogram, Flux Kontext Max, Imagen 4 Ultra, Imagen 4, Qwen, Nano Banana, Flux Schnell, Recraft, Flux 1.1 Pro, Flux 1.1 Pro Ultra, Imagen 4 Fast, and another Chatgpt.

They definitely had a type. (Even the chinese models made white dudes)

In any case, none of this really spoke to me. Then I thought about Sora, and how impressive it is at both visuals and at finding things that work together. I thought it might have more success. So I gave it a try.

@seadan showing off his wardrobe of clothes appropriate for a tech CEO. Fast cuts with many different looks.

That was the whole prompt – all the posing, dialogue, and the actual fashion choices are Sora’s.

I was impressed. Some of those looked nice? Maybe like something I’d actually wear? I checked with my fashion consultant/spouse, the one who actually has to look at me, and she concurred.

So, time to go for broke! I fired up ChatGPT “Agent”, which uses a web browser to fulfill requests.

Put together an outfit for me by choosing appropriate clothes and adding them to the site’s shopping cart. Then make a video of me wearing the clothes on sora.com. To do this, upload pictures of the clothes, and use “@seadan” (my handle) in the prompt.

It spent half an hour and had me log into Sora… and then it was done.

I guess we have a ways to go before we get to AGI.

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