Here's an example of a deck of cards meant to be used as a teaching aid while trying to guide people towards healthy food and eating habits. The customer wanted the pictures be presented as those in the children's books and the people in the images to be of different ages and ethnicity. It took a while and it was hilarious how the A.I. didn't have a clue about some things like fishing or ice fishing in particular.
A.I. Everybody's talking about it. And as a local guru in the matter, Immo Salo, said in his presentation where I was lucky to be invited to: "It is going to be part of out future whether we like it or not", hence the analogy to a train ride.
Professionally my main focus has always been on design. With time I've expanded my knowledge from layouts to photography, video editing, animation and to some extent to illustrating.
After Immo Salo's lecture I immediately started to study Chat GPT, but quickly realized that it's greatest advantages (at least at the moment from my perspective) lie on the corporate communication. And since I'm a lone entrepreneur, mostly with trusted longtime customers have very little use for such content.
But A.I. generated images are a whole different matter! I've been fortunate enough to have completed a couple of jobs where I've been able to learn that in fact, whether it's Midjourney, Dall-E or Firefly or some other A.I. they're still a tool. The quality result depends nearly entirely on the amount of effort you put into it as with any other tool.
Below You can see two examples that depict both the awesome possibilities of A.I. images and the easy pitfalls that one needs to learn to deal with. Funnily enough, for me, it takes another A.I. to fix another one's mistakes!
A.I. is kind of a black box, you never know what you'll get. Often the ambiance is very nice. But always recheck before continuing. Never ended up using this, but besides the man's skirt I found at least two other things I would have needed to fix.
