I’ve been getting into using AI in my day-to-day a lot over the past 6 months. Deciphering cantankerous customers’ meanings. Writing the start of a long letter not knowing where to start. And sometimes creating a logo… well, I gave it a try with a clear set of prompts “logo for a book club, an illustration of an open book, simple line art” and this is what I received.

Well I don’t know where they learn those kind of words but it certainly isn’t from me. I daresay that it’s learning those things from those Unstable Diffusion crowd. Frankly I’m not even mad, I’m disappointed.

Similarly, there are days when writing prompts seems like the AI is just being willful. “What do you mean you don’t know what an infinity symbol is? You drew the Kardashians coming out of a clown car a minute ago just fine!” I really have to resist the temptation not to push my prompt, weighting the up up until all hell breaks loose and tortured content starts flying about the screen as we wrestle with concepts that really are beyond both of us.

So yeah I really need to take better care of my AI. We’re better working from the same playbook.