That would possibly generate some serious cash if posted on Facebook Marketplace. Hell, Vic, you should open a gallery!

I am still fooling around with this AI-generated image stuff. I've asked Grok and Gemini platforms to interpret poetry. The results are mixed and usually require several prompts before getting something worthwhile.

As an example, I fed Gemini one of my recent poems:


Fatally Shod

I'm wearing an old pair of pink bunny slippers.
A friend of mine claims they were once Jack the Ripper’s.
I took the damned things because they were free,
and now my old feet are killing me.

This was the initial result:



I then prompted with, "Perhaps with an older man seated in a comfortable chair."

The result was:



Finally, I prompted, "The slippers should have soles."

The result was:



The AI responses are sometimes very strange--the missing soles for instance. Grok is particularly strange when it comes to subsequent prompts to modify an image it created. If asked to produce a modified image with a simple change, it usually creates a completely new and wildly different image. In the example above, you can see that Gemini behaves in a similar fashion. Rather than slap some soles onto the first image, Gemini generated a completely different image.

I asked Grok about permissible use of prompt-generated AI images. From what "he" said, it sounds like the use of such images is safe from a copyright standpoint for now. If I had to guess, I'd say there will be lots of legal wrangling down the road. My prediction is that the use of such images (and AI-generated text, for that matter) will be treated like a writer's output. I foresee paying for one-time use rights, first serial rights, all rights, etc., just the way freelance writers have been managed for the past hundred or so years.

I wonder if AI developments will eliminate the need for human illustrators and generate a demand for "prompters." I can imagine sitting in a cubicle all day prompting AI to get just the right output. I suppose there will be some need for trained graphic editors to get rid of all those extra AI fingers.



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“ I wonder if AI developments will eliminate the need for human illustrators and generate a demand for "prompters." I can imagine sitting in a cubicle all day prompting AI to get just the right output. I suppose there will be some need for trained graphic editors to get rid of all those extra AI fingers.�

AI is still in it’s infancy, just a matter of time till they get it right potentially creating millions of digital artists,. I can visualize going from a prompt to an AI machine that physically paints it on canvas.
Just think of 3D printers.

Nice work on the slippers

Tawiskaro-san,

Amusing poem and thank you for showing your prompts and the results.
l really love this stuff but it's scary as hell (to me).

I've always had a profound love of illustrators, as well as other forms of expressive art including graffiti.

Please continue this thread to help me get over my fear of AI.

When anybody can do it, can you still call it "Art" ?
The talent is now in the eye, hands and brain of the computer.

I'm sure, Ted... it's already begun. Ai will also replace your MD. Great Job cobbling your shoes.

Check out theses music videos... 100% Ai, graphics and vocals.

One of the Best, linked below. (imo) it's Country Music but I still like it https://music.brighteon.com/Posts/2025-02-21-goin-back-in-time-is-comin-home.html

Here's a host of them. Browse thru... some you will like, and some you may hate
https://music.brighteon.com/Videos/

by the way... *sacrilegious* sells

Ted... Possibly Gemini concluded that Jack the Ripper had no soul and this would be the proper way to visually express it. hum... ?

Thanks, Byron, for sharing your prompts and results! This subject and this thread may prove to be very interesting.


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Eve, this thread might increase your fear. I find this stuff rather scary, too. The potential for misuse of the technology should concern everyone. Totally bogus AI-generated images, video, and audio will no doubt be used to destroy people--politically, commercially, personally. Once the technology can produce convincingly realistic video of a person doing something unsavory they never actually did, droves of evil people will come forward to pay for it. And use it.

On the bright side, we might be able to enjoy new John Wayne movies.


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And even worse news: If the site ever has any contests that use mad scientists or slippers (oh and polar bears), us regular choppers won't stand a chance at winning.

Some of these programs are free, give it a shot, it’s really fun.

I agree with G2. Give it a try, Bob. Deviantart will give you 10 prompts a week for free.

MsgtBob wrote:
us regular choppers
Does this mean you consider some others here to be irregular or abby-normal?

There are no more "regular" choppers, I'm a 42 irregular.