AI Use Case: More Image Generation

ChatGPT offers a free Substack for educators that provides occasional education-focused ideas.

You should subscribe! Seriously!

Their April 8 piece focused on image generation and highlighted 5 ideas:

1. Creating an infographic

2. Visual explanations of a concept

3. Mocked up user interfaces

4. Self-representation

As image generation has blown up (and as possible social media fuel), the following tips are helpful:

Here are a few tips that OpenAI community lead and Yale lecturer Jay Dixit shared with our community of writers about how to best prompt and iterate with images in ChatGPT:

1. Say exactly what you want. Be direct about what you want to see. No prompt engineering required — just use normal language.

2. Define your visual style. Without direction, it will default to photorealism. Feel free to specify a visual style: “vintage 1950s illustrated children’s book,” or “black-and-white, high-contrast, grainy street photography.”

3. Expect to iterate. You might not get what you want on the first try, so be prepared to provide corrective guidance to adjust and refine.

4. Don’t be shy about detail. 4o thrives on specificity. Comprehensive prompts — even with several paragraphs of instructions — can yield good results.

5. Provide visual guidance. To maintain visual continuity, upload mood boards or reference images.

ChatGPT - Can you write a short story (10-20 sentences) using three letter words about a princess named Cia and her adventures? Can you illustrate the story with a cartoon like illustration in a comic book frame style?

I have found image generation a bit hit or miss but that might be user error as I tend to be less specific as I probably should.