I used ChatGPT to write AI art prompts to illustrate a short story.
The results were surprising, and I’ll show you how I did it
Creating or choosing images for your articles and stories is often time-consuming and frustrating.
It’s even more difficult if you don’t have a background in design.
What if you could use your text to generate images based on the descriptive language in your writing?
I got a chance to experiment with this theory, and the results were surprising.
I’ll show you why.
Developing an idea
I got a request from a Medium writer Francisco to create an image for his short story.
I’ve been writing about AI art generators and ChatGPT, so it was a good opportunity to find a new way to use these new tools. I used ChatGPT to write 3 prompts to represent the descriptive text about his story’s main character, background, and setting.
I copied and pasted 219 words from his story into ChatGPT after the prompt below:
Write 3 different prompts for an AI art generator using Stable Diffusion to create an image that represents this story: “She was 21 then. Ten years had passed. She was now…”