606 AI versus the real guy

Have you been keeping up with the advancements in AI? I haven't. There's a lot going on, and I don't have any skin in the game. 

Let's see, OpenAI dropped ChatGTP a bit less than 2 years ago, after years of rumbling from inside Google about chatbots passing the Turing test, and some cool image generators. Flash forward to today and we've got AI search built into our phones, image generators built into Photoshop, although I haven't used that old standby in years, and AI generated movie clips. 

Next comes the full on deluge of AI stuff: first, slick looking misinformation and endless rambling, then more, and not being able to quite tell, then the dragon eats its own tail and we're back to making petroglyphs.

In the meantime, we shall dabble. One of these days I'm hoping to be able to feed one of the dead screenplays I've got sitting around into an AI and then sit back and watch the movie. All the basics of that experience exist today, it just might require a bit of um, computing power, and uh, some electricity. 

For now, what would the latest image generator do with the cover for my book Miley McMeteor and The Lost Dog on Mars?

Here is the cover as created in Photoshop, circa before AI, using a mix of source images, filters, and layers. 

Now we get into Flux, the new latest and greatest image generator. It had some trouble understanding that a dog in space might need a spacesuit, too. There are other issues, like their size in comparison to the space station, but it's the lack of gear on the dog that caught my eye. 

That weird harness was a nice try. Maybe it's some kind of invisible space shield? But then why doesn't the girl have one?

The wonder dog harness hoop has grown into saddlebags, and high points for the inclusion of construction on Mars, but still no helmet. 

Well, we got a helmet. And a tail, on an otherwise very human dog. The girl seems to have given up in dismay, and is heading back to the spaceship. 

Let's try that again. Nope. The girl seems to have been relegated to siamese twin status, or maybe that's a terrarium on the dogs back. Still no helmet, and that space station looks more like a space dog house. 

Hmmm. At this point, Flux is fluxing with us. Sooo close.

One. Simple. Helmet. 

And a girl. Can't forget the girl. 

Plus what is the asteroid in the foreground?

So close-ish. Is it her ears, her paws, or the dog-head-growth coming out of her neck? 

Anyway, at that point I gave up. If I needed to make a book cover or any other image, I would keep tweaking until I had something I liked, and then worked with it. The basics are there, for sure. But it still needs help. 

Checking back a few days later, the interface has changed, but the dog still doesn't get a helmet.