I think most of the time that’s true. But, not always.
For example, I’ve seen people put up funny “remixes” of the “distracted boyfriend” meme. A lot of time they take historical figures, or celebrities, or characters from movies, or something that’s in the news. Now, I prefer the lo-fi versions of those memes where someone just spends 2 minutes in Paint and slaps a few photos together. I’ve also seen GenAI versions, and occasionally they’re good, even if I have an aversion to GenAI stuff.
Now, if the GenAI prompt were just something like “Distracted boyfriend meme but the boyfriend is Trump, the girlfriend is Lindsay Graham and the other girl is Putin”, that might be funny, and you can just know in your head what it looks like. That’s even a good lo-fi way to do it when everybody knows the meme well and can just imagine it. But, if you have a specific idea in mind that’s hard to convey, it can be different.
Sometimes the prompt is hundreds of words long and has to describe the various people’s clothing, their poses, their expressions, then other details like the background, foreground, lighting, etc. Sometimes in that case the result looks really good, and it’s really hard to parse that all in your head.
There’s an art and a skill to doing the kind of creative writing necessary to generate a good AI image. Sometimes you need to know obscure things like specific hairstyle names, car models, types of furniture, lighting techniques, facial expression details, names of articles of men’s and women’s clothing, how to describe poses and posture, etc. But, while that might generate an image that’s exactly how you imagined, it was never designed for a human to understand, and can be really painful and/or tedious to read.
I think most of the time that’s true. But, not always.
For example, I’ve seen people put up funny “remixes” of the “distracted boyfriend” meme. A lot of time they take historical figures, or celebrities, or characters from movies, or something that’s in the news. Now, I prefer the lo-fi versions of those memes where someone just spends 2 minutes in Paint and slaps a few photos together. I’ve also seen GenAI versions, and occasionally they’re good, even if I have an aversion to GenAI stuff.
Now, if the GenAI prompt were just something like “Distracted boyfriend meme but the boyfriend is Trump, the girlfriend is Lindsay Graham and the other girl is Putin”, that might be funny, and you can just know in your head what it looks like. That’s even a good lo-fi way to do it when everybody knows the meme well and can just imagine it. But, if you have a specific idea in mind that’s hard to convey, it can be different.
Sometimes the prompt is hundreds of words long and has to describe the various people’s clothing, their poses, their expressions, then other details like the background, foreground, lighting, etc. Sometimes in that case the result looks really good, and it’s really hard to parse that all in your head.
There’s an art and a skill to doing the kind of creative writing necessary to generate a good AI image. Sometimes you need to know obscure things like specific hairstyle names, car models, types of furniture, lighting techniques, facial expression details, names of articles of men’s and women’s clothing, how to describe poses and posture, etc. But, while that might generate an image that’s exactly how you imagined, it was never designed for a human to understand, and can be really painful and/or tedious to read.