Infinite Wonderland uses generative AI to create a unique retelling of Lewis Carrol's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is part of our "Labs Sessions" series for Labs.google, Google's home page for experimental AI. The project uses Google's StyleDrop as a fine-tuning technique on top of DeepMind's Imagen 2) to infinitely illustrate every sentence in the book.
Infinite Wonderland is an infinite retelling of Lewis Carrol's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is part of our ongoing "Labs Sessions" series for Labs.google, Google's home page for experimental AI.
The project uses Google's StyleDrop as a fine-tuning technique on top of DeepMind's Imagen 2) to infinitely illustrate every sentence in the book.
We collaborated with 4 illustrators, Eric Hu, Shawna X, Haruko Hayakawa and Erik Carter for around 8 months, repeatedly training models on their own artworks to allow them to create what they liken to "a brush with their style" that anybody can paint with.
What's impressive about Styledrop is that with just one reference image you can reliably generate images in that style. For Infinite Wonderland we used around 8-12 images from each artist to capture various characters through out the novel.
When you click a sentence in the novel, that sentence has been sent to Gemini (an LLM) and it is asked to convert that sentence into a meaningful image prompt. This works exceptionally well because the model is already familiar with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Each image in the fine-tuning set has been assigned its own unique tokens, when we receive the image prompt from Gemini such as "Alice reading a book down by the river" we swap "Alice" for tokens that describe that artists artwork for Alice.
- Role: Lead Creative Technologist
- Collaborators: Eric Hu, Shawna X, Haruko Hayakawa, Erik Carter
