About fifteen years ago, there were videos all over YouTube, websites, and advertisements promoting that you could get rich quick by hiring a freelancer to write your book(s) and then publishing them on Amazon or other platforms. Like any get-rich-quick scheme, these were bologna. Good freelancers cost money that most people couldn't afford to invest. If they did, they would soon discover that they then needed to come up with the money and time to market the book. This can cost four to five times as much as getting the book published.
Now, all those get-rich-quick schemes have rebooted with AI in the place of freelancers--after all, you can use AI for free all over the web. In addition to the plagiarism problems that also happen with freelancers, you now have serious issues with the quality of AI writing. It's garbage.
I came across an ad today talking about how it is the person's problem and not the AI's fault if the AI gives you garbage. This is another big fat lie. Obviously, the ad said, you aren't giving the AI enough information to do a good job. I could die laughing at this one as I am struggling to get my favorite free AI to generate the book cover I have envisioned for The Inconvenient Sister.
First, you may ask why I am struggling with AI that isn't putting out what I want when there are plenty of other platforms. My biggest reason is because I have worked with other AI, and I also know its limitations. I think we are about as good as we are going to ever get with it. I also don't want to spend time looking for something that may or may not exist. Deep AI does a variety of things for free without requiring me to sign in. I need the image generator and right now, I haven't found too many free image generators. Feel free to leave a comment if you have one you like.
So, let's address the problem that the ad mentioned--not specific instructions.
Here is what I put in the prompt: "1750s dressed 28-year-old man with long, black, braid and green eyes and white cravat next to a 20-year old corseted woman with brown hair in bun and blue eyes standing in street." To me, this is pretty specific. I have gone into even more detail with the imagery and found that at a certain point the AI breaks down and doesn't give me anything better. I think with this prompt, which has been expanded as I see issues in the picture, it has too much information for the AI to process. I will probably have to ditch the ages.
Now, AI could get this wrong in a variety of ways that I have not specified. For example, it could (and does) give me tons of non-period clothing even though I specified 1750s because I did not detail each piece of clothing they are wearing. However, it also totally screws up the things I have been clear about. I get men with 10 braids and women with braids. I get men with no braid and a man bun. I even get two cross-dressing women. Most irritating is that I get men with dark brown eyes and women with auburn hair instead of brown hair. Those two things I have been very specific about, so I cannot understand how anyone could support AI that screws that up. I have gone through about 100 images right now, so I will cut out some of the details and see if I can get it to go better for me. Since these things should be easy enough to find, especially 1750s clothing and hazel eyes, it is extremely irritating that the AI can't figure it out.
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