In the previous post, it was briefly mentioned that restrictions have an important role on creativity. Restrictions somehow sharpens creativity.
In the evolving world of AI prompt engineering, this relation can clearly be seen that fine tuning prompts, indeed, makes more original or creative outcomes when using Microsoft’s Image Creator. In this specific case for the prompt “AI and humanity are hallucinating together”.
I suggested the sentence after being encouraged by a tweet by Kris Kashtanova, where she prompted her followers to finish the sentence “Ai and humanity is ___”.
Kashtanova’s tweet got over 200 replies and 35 000 views.
After having submitted my suggestion, I prompted Bing/ Dall-e to create images from the sentence. It delivered pretty but boring and generic results, even after a couple of attempts.
It becomes more interesting when restricting the prompt to a beer coaster or collector plate.
The beer coasters and plates are more interesting than the prompt without any restrictions, but they share the idea that “AI” and “humanity” are illustrated as two separate individuals, who share their hallucinating together. It would be interesting to get a more intertwined experience.
Although I give Bing/ Dalle-e strong prompts about dropping the idea of two separate entities, it usually persists.
Finally, the borders are increasingly blurred:
Prompt: Pixel art digitalized singularity: AI and humanity are hallucinating together. Total abstraction.
It was a fun experiment, but is the result “original”? I don’t thinks so. Already in a movie like Lawnmover man, we could watch a similar “mental melting” of man and machine.
Final conclusion: Dalle-e underscores an important point by persisting in the use of humanoid characters: What is humanity without our physical bodies?
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