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Spent 6 hours trying to fix an AI art project because I used the wrong prompt format
I was working on a series of landscapes for a client using Midjourney and kept getting weird distortions in the trees. Tried different settings, zoomed in, even cleared my cache. After 6 hours I realized the problem was I was using a comma instead of a double colon between keywords. Simple fix but it ate my whole Sunday. Has anyone else lost time to something like a tiny syntax error in AI prompts?
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robert_ross956d ago
Haha "a space in a negative prompt will just kill it dead" - that reminds me of when I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why my cat memes kept coming out as dogs, turned out I had typed "cat::" as "cat: :" with a space by accident.
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colescott7d ago
Six hours because of a colon vs comma? Dude that's brutal haha. I've definitely been there with stuff like that though. Spent a whole afternoon once because I put a space in the wrong spot in a negative prompt and it just ignored it completely. These AI tools are so picky about formatting it's crazy. A single character can just wreck your whole output and you feel like an idiot when you finally spot it lol.
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