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(57,753 posts)the AI. It isn't unusual to see some specified elements left out, or even if they're included, placed completely wrong.
And even if every element is included, the exact same prompt - without a single word changed - can create an almost endless number of variations, starting with the original four options the user is offered (or whatever the number is with that image generator). Options that can be wildly different. Don't like any of those? It'll give you another four. And again. And again.
Prompts are not truly creative because what you're giving the AI are in effect keywords to assemble something. They're much more comparable to search keywords. But the AI responds to those keywords differently with each image generated from the same prompt.
Are prompts slightly creative? In the sense that any idea summarized in a few words might be considered creative. Are they artistry? No. They're triggers to get the AI to dredge up something from what's in its training data, which consists of other people's artistry plus the labels associated with it from descriptions of it. But the AI user didn't create any of it.
If you paid someone to do a painting and just gave them the prompt you gave an AI, would you think that you were being very creative? Would you think you had created the painting they did?
You have not created the AI images you have the AI spit out possible variations of, just as people using text generators haven't written what it produces, and people using music generators haven't created that music.
What AI tools do is fake creativity.
You could use a Latin name of an animal, a name you don't recognize, as a prompt, with absolutely no idea what the image will look like. And if that Latin name and the image are in the AI's training data, you might even get a correct image. With zero knowledge of what you're supposed to get.
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