Our current progress in the development of AI Image Generation tools seems slow, and the mistakes: hilarious. I don’t find it to be a useful tool in creating finished compositions that would be used as-is, but is a great way to continue experimenting with and iterating on ideas. Taking the prompt “pet friendly interstellar vacation”, I mapped out some of the requirements for the image and sketched a few examples of ideas.
Query #1
Using the prompt as-is in the free AI Image generator Craiyon, I received these initial images. I need to add more specific descriptors to get something closer to the sketches. The dachshund in its custom-fit space suit is pretty cute though.
Query #2
I laughed as soon as I saw these images. Though Craiyon did try to include food and toys that look relatively like they should, they put the animal in a tiny toy spaceship that looks more like the pod baby Yoda floats around in in The Mandalorian. I also need to specify what kind of pet because none of these images look like one type of animal.
Query #3
Now we have a cat that looks like a cat, and a window, and a futuristic style room. It’s not clear that outside the window is space, and the photo did not include toys as I had requested.
Final Query
After adding in a few more specific details to the description, I was able to get a photo that meets a more significant number of my requirements. The downside is that the quality of the cat image is less than the previous version, and I’m not quite sure why. At least in these images it’s clear that the cat is indoors, somewhere in space, with some of it’s necessities to live nearby. Overall, I would not call this experimentation successful. None of these are photos I could use as an end-product, but I could use it as inspiration when creating my own version of the image. I wonder if other image generation software (especially those with a paywall) are going to be more advanced. I would be curious to compare across software.