Rather than attempt to write fiction and disrupt the work in progress, I opted to go with a visual response. What I got is a perfect illustration of why AI will never replace the human artist completely.
I can immediately picture multiple ways to depict this: “The kitten knocked on the mousehole door.”
I attempted a number of times, with classic children’s illustrators, to get the pose at least close, however, the AI fixated on the kitten and door, and ignored all the other aspects of the prompt.
Curiously, the first few prompts all yielded rather similar results, and the little kitten in blue wasn’t a Beatrix Potter, where I expected it to be. And then, the Ai went entirely off the reservation!
At this point I decided to try and give it more of a hint in the direction I wanted. I think, dear Reader, that you can get a funny little picture in your head with this prompt!
This was the first one I really liked, even though it didn’t fit what I wanted. Still, worth keeping! The expression on that little ruffian!
Again, I was getting very similar results from the prompts, despite differing artists and styles. So, I added even more direction for the program to render out, in hopes that it would go in the direction I wanted.
Adorable! But not, really, at all what I wanted. I appended the –niji modifier, and finally got something resembling my mental image.
And, still using –niji, I got one that would indeed work for the prompt response.
There were a number of other results that were delightful, but unsuitable for the prompt. Still, I’m sharing them as they were a lot of fun.
My prompt this week came from Leigh Kimmel with “The kitten knocked on the mousehole door.”
I prompted Leigh in return with “A flamenco harpist.”
To see all of the prompt responses, and perhaps join in the challenge yourself, hop on over to More Odds Than Ends.
This is reminding me of the frustration I had last night on NightCafe. I wanted a particular image for the daily contest: I happen to own a cap with an embroidered eagle clutching an American flag and I was trying to get something similar. I kept getting the eagle wearing the hat, too many eyes or parts of the bird coming off the cap. It took around 2 dozen attempts before I got close to what I wanted.
[…] Everybody! So I was looking at an interesting post at Cedar Sanderson’s site, wherein she illustrates the difficulties one often encounters working with AI-generated art. She […]
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This is reminding me of the frustration I had last night on NightCafe. I wanted a particular image for the daily contest: I happen to own a cap with an embroidered eagle clutching an American flag and I was trying to get something similar. I kept getting the eagle wearing the hat, too many eyes or parts of the bird coming off the cap. It took around 2 dozen attempts before I got close to what I wanted.
[…] Everybody! So I was looking at an interesting post at Cedar Sanderson’s site, wherein she illustrates the difficulties one often encounters working with AI-generated art. She […]