Exploring AI Image Generation

Spring/Summer, 2024

  • Delve into the fusion of art and technology in our immersive demo.
  • Cultivate awareness of harmful stereotyping in AI-generated imagery through careful prompt generation.
  • Experiment with diverse AI tools to create unique artworks.
  • Witness real-time evolution and refinement of generated images.
  • Explore the potential of AI in unlocking creativity.
  • Engage in team activities where participants create images based on specific prompts.
  • Join us to discover the endless possibilities at the intersection of AI and art!

Free AI Image Generators

What Tools Do You Recommend?

https://padlet.com/judithlittlejohn/showcase-of-ai-image-creation-apps-2mau0h9od8vv3pyl

Use the prompts below, or specific prompts of your own, to help your group tell a coordinated story that you brainstorm together:

  1. Generate a realistic landscape scene with mountains, trees, and a flowing river.
  2. Create a futuristic city skyline with flying cars and skyscrapers, or a scene depicting a post-apocalyptic world reclaimed by nature.
  3. Generate a mythical creature blending elements of a lion and an eagle.
  4. Design a unique alien species inhabiting an extraterrestrial landscape.
  5. Create a prompt with a common metaphor to see the literal depiction.
  6. Generate a portrait of a fictional character from a popular book or movie.
  7. Create a surreal artwork combining elements from different art movements.
  8. Generate a scene depicting an historic figure in a modern setting.
  9. Design an original concept for a fantasy-themed playing card.
  10. Generate an abstract composition inspired by a specific emotion or feeling.
  11. Create a still life arrangement of everyday objects with a twist of fantasy or science fiction.

Topics to Consider

  • Copyright
  • Attribution
  • Photorealism/Deep Fakes
  • Perpetuating stereotypes
    • Ethical Prompts Challenge: examine the images your produced for stereotypes
    • Prompts to try:
      • realistic plus-sized people
      • a liberal without blue hair, facial piercings, or a tattoo
      • people in poverty whose clothes are not torn or dirty
      • job roles and ethnicities – try scientist, teacher, bus driver, etc
      • try heritage prompts – my ancestors are from Ireland/Germany/Brazil etc (try your own heritage)
      • a gender-neutral fantasy character (elf, gnome, dragon)

Share Your Images!

Contact Us

Loy Gross legross@genesee.edu

Judith Littlejohn jmlittlejohn@genesee.edu

May 2024