Conversational creation & iteration is such a promising pattern, as shown through people making ChatGPT take images to greater & greater extremes:
— No Context Shitposting (@NoContextCrap) February 8, 2025
But how do we go from ironic laughs to actual usefulness? Krea is taking a swing by integrating (I think) the Flux imaging model with the DeepSeek LLM:
Krea Chat is here.
a brand new way of creating images and videos with AI.
open beta out now. pic.twitter.com/dbHX31l92A
— KREA AI (@krea_ai) February 7, 2025
It doesn’t yet offer the kind of localized refinements people want (e.g. “show me a dog on the beach,” then “put a hat on the dog” and don’t change anything outside the hat area). Even so, it’s great to be able to create an image, add a photo reference to refine it, and then create a video. Here’s my cute, if not exactly accurate, first attempt. 🙂