Recently at work we've been discussing using AI. Obviously, it's a hot topic right now, and I have successfully used it for some things at work, but in a lot of ways it's just a comical waste of time.
Earlier today, I decided to give Copilot a shot at creating an image based on an idea I wanted to print out for a Mother's Day card. I saw an image with a heart made of flowers and some random geometric shapes forming a border around the heart. The image was intended to be printed out so that a child could color the picture for their own mother.
I thought that it might look cool to have the heart made up of the same thing, so I opened up Copilot and started with a basic explanation and image. I first tried several times with no avail. At first, it seemed to get close, but eventually it moved further and further away from what I initially asked for, so I tried to get back to basics by asking for just a simple rectangle which generated a rectangle that had a bunch of rainbow colored arches inside it. Well... I wanted it more simple than that.
I tried asking for something I could make out of wood, or something a young child could cut out of paper. Over and over again, I asked for it to be more simplified and eventually got to something that was close - a rectangle that had a shadow across the corner and some other colors surrounding it. I tried asking for something without a shadow, then it gave me one with gradients and other colors. I tried asking for no gradients and no shadows. All failures in one way or another.
The last one I got, which I'm including here as an example was hilariously wrong. Just trying to get it super simple, I just wanted a black and white rectangle, but it seems to have already gone off the deep end. Sure... it's black-and-white... it has a rectangle (square), but I never wanted background stuff - I never said it needed scenery. Worst of all, it somehow still has a gradient of white to black in the box and, of course, shadows in the scenery.
... Ok. Just one more try... How about a 2-dimensional box.
