Letting an AI pick my wall colors was a hilarious disaster

I got this AI app that suggests paint shades from photos of your room. It said my bathroom needed neon pink, and now it looks like a cartoon candy store. Why do these things always go for the wildest options?

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miles_nguyen303mo ago

Did you try giving it photos of rooms you actually like? I learned the hard way that showing the AI my empty room just makes it suggest crazy stuff... it's like it gets bored. What worked for me was taking pictures of finished rooms from magazines that had the vibe I wanted. The suggestions were way more normal, like a soft gray instead of electric blue. It still gave some odd ones, but having a good reference picture gave it something better to copy.

pipermurray3mo ago

miles_nguyen30 is onto something... Yeah, it's a game changer to use a good finished photo as a guide. I tried the same thing after my first round of suggestions were just... terrible. It kept telling me to paint one wall lime green in a bedroom, which is a choice. Giving it a calm, real picture to work from gave way less bizarre ideas. It still threw in a weird light fixture now and then, but the paint colors were normal, like a warm white instead of, I don't know, neon orange.

felix9820h ago

Haha yeah miles_nguyen30 is totally onto something. The AI gets way too creative when you give it a blank slate, like it's trying to impress you or something. I found that showing it a picture of a room that already works, even if it's from a catalog or Pinterest, gives it a much better starting point. It's like the AI needs a template to stay in the lines, otherwise it just goes wild with whatever pops into its code.