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I can't count the number of things wrong with this, especially with those fingers.

I got to play around with "Text to Image" in Adobe back on Election Day during school professional development. And I'd already played around with the Bing AI image creator. I got the idea to do Mike and Ken in a classroom. The results were horrible even before I decided to add Michele into the mix. There was one somewhat decent image of her but the two guys were terrible, and then I lost it because I got logged out or something.

I'm starting to believe that these image creators don't like negatives, such as "no glasses". Mike has glasses, so everyone has glasses. Similarly, I tried an illustration with someone having angel wings but "no halo", and the angel always had a halo. And sometimes the non-angel had wings.

It'll get better in the coming years, and it'll be all over the place. The mosre generic an image, the easier it'll be to create. If I wanted planets circling a black hole, I could probably get some cool images. And if I needed random people, no problem. But describing my characters? That didn't go well.

I might do this again from time to time, making the AI a part of the joke. If I can't actually draw something, I can stick to stick figures or charts and graphs or simple shapes.

So what do you think of these characters? Yea or Nay? Use them again?

Actually, I probably couldn't use them again even if I wanted to. The odds of recreating anything similar are pretty long, so I'd be stuck with this single image as a Greek chorus commenting on other things.

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