Generative AI tools are hot. Nowadays, it seems like there’s a generative AI tool for almost every application. Websites can be built, songs can be created, software can be developed, and images can be generated. The last one is one of my favourites.
I’m an active member of a, what we call it in The Netherlands, “dispuut” (comparable with a fraternity) of a student association. Every Wednesday, I send a WhatsApp message to all active members of my dispuut, to inform them about the drinks of the coming week, accompanied by a funny anecdote of the past week.
A couple of weeks after the sending of these messages became my responsibility, I started experimenting with adding cartoon pictures, created by Chat-GPT, showing what’s coming or what has happened in a funny format, so that people would have a laugh. I added an example of these as the featured image of this blog post.
Since the moment I started doing this, a month ago, I’ve noticed a couple of things. On a positive note, the images are generated in the same style every time. Because of this, I can create a certain style of images that I want to create week in, week out. But on a negative note, Chat-GPT doesn’t always implement your feedback, even if it tells you that it did. And sometimes, it fails to explain why the image generation request couldn’t be followed up with generating an image. It’d be nice if there were a clear and concise explanation of why it wasn’t possible to generate the image, so that the request could be changed appropriately.
In conclusion, the possibility of having pictures generated by Chat-GPT is very fun, but it doesn’t always work out the way you want to.
Hi Floris, I’m too an enthusiast of using AI to generate photos and send it to friends groups as a comical tool. It gets a good laugh, it is easy to do, and the input of the AI sometimes surprises you with an image that is not what you envisioned at all. It really does create a feeling of creativity with ease that we have never experienced before. I feel like ChatGPT kind of hit a plateau now as you seem to explain as well. I would suggest you to use ClaudeAI or Google Gemini to add some new seasoning to your group messages 😉
I clicked on this post because of the picture. It’s quite funny to think that these are being sent weekly on a group chat. I agree that ChatGPT has its limits. On one hand, we can blame ChatGPT for not generating the image you asked it to. On the other hand, we can also blame ourselves for not writing a prompt that was effective enough. Some people are now making a living from knowing how to write AI prompts to generate images and videos. So, if you can train yourself to write accurately enough for ChatGPT to give you what you want, you might have found yourself a new potential career.