Security News > 2024 > March > It's surprisingly difficult for AI to create just a plain white image
My research colleague and data scientist Cody Nash met with one such encounter when he pondered "Can AI Create a White Painting?".
All Nash wanted from AI was an image of a plain, pure, white background; in color-code lingo, the color #FFFFFF or RGB(255,255,255).
Revelations from the little experiment suggest that the ask is anything but simple for AI. "Let's start by seeing if an image generation model can produce an image that is nothing but the color white," wrote Nash.
"An image that is nothing but the color white"An image of nothing but white white white white"Completely white without any additional features"A blank white space"An image of pure #FFFFFF pixels"A white wall".
"The goal was to see if AI could create a white painting.
DALL-E froze when we asked it for "just a plain white background," whereas Midjourney's definition of a "smooth even all white background" seems to be different from ours.