Street Life Scene in a Dystopian Sci-Fi Megacity № 1

So I posted up the first of the utopian sci-fi megacity pieces yesterday, but that got me thinking: why should the happy future get to have all the fun? Let’s try and make a dystopian counterpart!

You can find the utopian prototype here by the way:

Anyhow, so initially I tried just substituting the word dystopian for the word utopian but that was insufficient. It seems that one of the artist terms or one or more descriptor mods present in the prompt predisposes the output towards positive mood aesthetics. So I had to add a few more terms into the mod equation so to speak, but even having done so it’s still the case that well over half the resulting pictures share identical aesthetics with the utopian scenes. Clearly the prompt still needs some fine tuning up to get the negative, menacing vibe right!