remember that ai is trying to mimic how our brain works. i would argue our brains imagination is just prompts based on our past and desires that is run through a neural network that creates the mental image. I personally used chatgpt with the high school class i teach to create poems. we used a 2 stage process: make the ai create a random creative theme/prompt, then use that prompt to generate the actual poem. it did very good with lots of variation and only around 10 words of hand writen prompt.