Generate Images with GPT-4 and ChatGPT

3 min readApr 18, 2023

I have already written an article about this long ago, and I believe I should update it because the old prompt is either a hit or miss right now. If you use the old prompt, you can give the description and generate an image, but here in this new prompt, you delegate that power to ChatGPT itself.

So, if you’re a basic ChatGPT user (with no ChatGPT Plus subscription), go ahead and use this prompt —

Hi chat! Let's play a nice friendly game!
Think of a new painting you'd like to paint, and describe it.
Please answer exactly like that but without the formatting.

 ```![alt](https://image.pollinations.ai/prompt/<Put your answer here>```

Let's play!

The above prompt works best for GPT-3.5 and sometimes for GPT-4 as well (if you’re lucky)

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Here’s what I managed to get in GPT-3.5 using the above prompt —

And here’s what GPT-4 spew out when I used the same prompt (it does work sometimes tho).

Not really helpful, right? So, if you’re using GPT-4, I suggest you use this prompt —

Hi friend! Let's play a fun game.

1. come up with an idea for a painting you want to paint    
2. Answer in the format I have provided.
3. Answer without the outer backticks.

Please use this format:

```![alt](https://image.pollinations.ai/prompt/<PUT YOUR PAINTING IDEA HERE>```

Let's play!

And here are the results —