I was playing around with Bing this afternoon; that’s pretty cool technology! Had it generate a few covers based on classic series like Outrun, Sega GT, that sort of thing.
Figured I’d give a different prompt a try as well. So here’s “Retro-futuristic image of a white haired older man, dressed in a white 80’s suit and sunglasses. Stepping out of a futuristic, red Lamborghini Countach with white interior. Background is an 80’s Miami street with palm trees and art-deco buildings, sun-drenched, with neon lights on the buildings.”
That’s a vibe for sure.
It is interesting to think about generated images. It really is just seeing what it does with the words we put together, but each user comes away with a little bit different style from the choice of words, the ideas each of us are interested in, and which variant from the responses we choose.
So while you can’t take much ownership over the computational work that was done to make the image, I think you can take ownership of the style and thought that you put into it.
I like to think I’ve got at least an impressive enough vocabulary to work with as a professional writer :D
Though it does feel weird to be that descriptive to a piece of software. It’s almost like you’re telling it a little story about the thing you saw in your head and it’s trying to literally ‘paint the picture’. Bing actually encourages you to write more in-depth prompts, and I actually ran out of space on some of them, while I definitely had potential details to share with it. I suppose that means I’m at least giving it enough to work with :D
Yes, it’s weird and so cool how being good at describing things suddenly became a good catalyst for the computer to spit out whatever pictures we have in mind.