thanks for the traffic everyone -- definitely hitting rate limits on gemini already so if it doesn't work please give it a try later in the day or try the example.
Apologies for the inconvenience! If anyone on the gemini team can help out, please lmk (email in bio).
Thanks! A few friends have starting using the generated digis as profile pictures because of how recognizable they are. I was definitely surprised at how good the models had gotten.
Thanks! Like another user commented below, I think the appeal of the pixel art sprites is that at a lower level of detail it can feel really accurate. 10 different real life red jackets can all end up as the same pixel art representation but each person would recognize it as their jacket! It feels like a form of compression.
On prompting, you can get most of the way there in AI studio on Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental by uploading a picture and asking for "a high quality detailed pixel art sprite of this character." Most of the backend annoyance here was iterating to improve prompt adherence (characters not facing the same way, outfits changing between frames, etc).
Thanks! There are some content filtering rules via Gemini, but if you got an error on Trump I'm guessing it's an issue with the image generation rate limit getting overloaded.
interesting, thanks for flagging -- this looks to be a parsing issue when ChatGPT occasionally returns guesses in a format different than the one instructed to. I'll give this some more thought on how to fix...
Some technical notes. Even for something like this, the OpenAI API can be expensive - there's a few decisions I made that keep costs lower.
1. I cache guesses and responses in Redis when I first see them, so I don't need to hit the API for duplicate guesses (which are common when lots of people are guessing the same movies).
2. Emoji order doesn't matter (I apply a sorting to guesses).
3. Guesses are not path dependent, with each guess being treated as completely new. This is understandably annoying when GPT guesses the same incorrect movie multiple times, but it drastically improves the cache-ability and keeps me from hitting my API limits.
Happy to answer any questions here! If you'd like to reach out to me my email is in my bio.
country flags are enabled - the search displays the Italian flag if I type in "italy". However if I type "italian", it doesn't match to the flag unfortunately.
When I soft launched it 3 weeks ago I was doing TV shows, but 3x shows per day quickly exhausted my initial list, so I switched to movies over the past few days