Guess which CS:GO map AI is trying to draw here.
How about this one? And this?
Getting AI to draw images right now, is really fun right now. You type a load of words,
generally, the more the better, and it spits out an image with all- or at least
some- of the things you’ve asked it to draw, even if it sometimes gets the context wrong.
It manages all of these new images from stuff it’s learned from analysing millions of pre-existing
images that are already online. Nobody really knows how AI works cos it seems to have a life of
its own, but you can tell that Counter-Strikes is popular because even telling it to draw pictures
of ‘strike counter’ came up with acceptable images of the game. But certainly not the most exciting.
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All of these places look like they could be from Counter-Strike. Most of the character
models do, too. And it even has a good stab at showing a first person weapon model and
HUD as well. All this, from two words. That weren’t even in the right order.
So we’ll get this out of the way now- it conjures up recognisable representations of Counter-Strike
if you type in Counter Strike, followed by words. Better than it does with Global Offensive! Which
seems to show images from what looks more like an MMO of some sort. If you know what it’s trying to
show here then please let me know. Maybe it’s case unboxing! NO.
The AI does not seem to recognise case unboxing to be a thing.
It doesn’t even seem to know what Counter-Strike’s menu looks like! Evidently, not many people
upload images of menu screens to the internet. …So this forced me to create them from scratch.
Counter Strike Logo makes it clear it does know what the logo looks like. Especially this one.
Not so much this one.
Or this one. But what if I add ‘man 3d’ to it?
Incredibly, it keeps the pose, but makes it look like a soldier!
Great job, AI. I’d praise you more, but I suspect at some point not far in the future you’re going
to be stealing my job, so let’s move on. This, is the Valve Logo! They probably
went to great efforts to take this picture. Let’s see if drawing it
with AI could have saved them some time. Getting the AI to generate the Valve Logo
comes up with something ridiculously abstract. I morbidly typed ‘Man with Valve for eyes’ just
to see what shocking pictures it would create, but they all seemed surprisingly cheery about an
otherwise morbid situation. And all seemed to be construction workers. I need to get more specific.
Man with red valve on back of head is more like I want, but the colour’s all wrong.
It needs to be black, background, doesn’t it. Ahh… that’s more like it. A decent recreation
of Valve’s logo… even if it does look more like a tomato smooshed into his head.
What about this picture? Can AI faithfully recreate this
image from merely a handful of words? Two strapping men bearing arms.. gets close.
Something wrong with it but I’m not sure what. This one’s pretty good though,
but there’s still something off with it. Can’t quite put my finger on what.
Perfect.
Time to AI-generate case unboxings!
…no, not quite what I wanted. CSGO unboxing… looks more like it.
Not sure what it is with the Rorschach tests. Never got why people obsess over
black and white photos of topless men. Case unboxing millionaire shows boxes
of money, which is the exact OPPOSITE of what it should show.
Videogame gambling was too cartoonish. Unboxing weapons just showed unboxing weapons…
Oh look. I wonder who that handsome chappy could be.
Let’s play a game. Which map is this? This will be easy for veterans of the game,
but since it hasn’t been in the game for nearly 5 YEARS… jeez, I feel old- newer players may not
recognise this as being Aztec. Actually they’ll probably think it’s Ancient. Which works too.
Though if I’m honest, it reminds me more of a 90’s 3D render for a skybox from 1.6.
Next is this one, which try as I did, I could NOT get Chernobyl showing in the
background. Though this one might have shown the sarcophagus though. Still, nice to know AI can
successfully recreate a map like Cache with something as vague as ‘concrete courtyard’.
I’ll stop going alphabetically now. Which one’s this?
Okay, it’s a trick question- I just got it to draw global offensive seaside cliffs.
Though it would make for a great map. This is my, admittedly,
pathetic attempt at drawing inferno. The Italy picture maybe focused too much on
the vegetable stalls and not enough on the rest. It was easy to KIND of get this one right,
but impossible to properly recreate Militia. This one’s fairly obvious, though a bit more
cartoony than I’d have liked. Adding ‘photo’ to the request improved it. Apparently you can trick
it into making a better image by adding 4k or 8k to the description. The map’s office, by the way.
Which map has popdog? This one. Though the dog would often escape from the side of the train
and become a literal dog. What a good boy! This one you won’t know, and it took the
banner suggestion a little too literally. But it’s meant to be Piranesi, that Source map set
in the museum castle with that orrery the terrorists were trying to blow up!
This was meant to be the setting for my Elysium map on Mars.
And this is Vertigo.
Yup, I know I’ve missed the best map in existence out. But don’t worry:
because I want to dedicate a whole part of this video to Counter-Strike’s
best map… … Dust2.
If I’m honest, it’s kind of cheating, since every picture that AI generates of Counter-Strike
looks kind of like Dust2 any way, being how dominant the map is when it comes to the game.
I tried Dust2 photograph 4K to see how it might look when Source 2 comes out next month,
and it still looks like… Dust2. I tried ordering more features from the map and
it did a good job of looking like Dust2 as well! I like the results from Snowy dust2.
It really did feel like parts of the map I thought I recognised at first glance.
I also like how this car’s sinking into the floor just here.
It kind of fixated on the distant volcano in this example, making some really
terrifying and life-like looking volcanoes jutting out from behind the city walls.
Amongust2 I tried setting the map at night,
and with Jupiter just hanging there. And it got a little too obsessed with that one feature.
So I removed Jupiter, and got this! Isn’t it beautiful.
And then I asked for a red sky,
and puddle reflections of chicken. And it delivered this in buckets. Great job, AI.
Problem is, either the result looks like Dust2, or it looks different enough to NOT
look like Dust2. Like this beautiful example of, what’s supposed to be Dust2 but overgrown
and full of ruins and statues and spiky bushes everywhere. Looks nice, though.
AI can also be used to generate stuff in different art-styles.
This is apparently a Dust2 oil painting.
This is my attempt at getting the AI to draw the Global Elite symbol.
This is me trying to get a picture of JUST a counter strike weapon,
but I ended up getting the whole player model as well, which I’m also happy about.
I tried to draw surf mode, with people falling off everywhere. Complete with motion blur!
I tried making a PS1 version of Counter-Strike… which isn’t far off what the original was any way.
And then, I got experimental.
Shrek, in CS:GO. PS1 Hagrid, in CS:GO.
Sonic the Hedgehog, in snowy CS:GO. Half Life Alyx, CS:GO.
Trying to draw the Elite Crew… yielded unexpected results.
And replacing the spelling with L33t Sp34k didn’t help matters either.
I got some really interesting results by trying to combine Counter-Strike with super-specific,
real-life situations, like being crouched on a roof top looking through a sniper…
…or hiding in a bush, shooting a man with a green jumpsuit.
But is this still Counter-Strike at this point? Here, is what it thinks a CS:GO pro looks like.
Here’s the same, but handsome. Female Counter Strike.
Basement dweller Counter-Strike . Here is somebody playing on a computer
while riding a rollercoaster.
…and here’s a chicken seen through sniper scope. If you’d like to see more AI-generated stuff,
then check out 2kliksphilip’s video here. It gets weird!