I decided to run a bunch of variations on the image that I used for the cover of my working paper, Serendipity in the Wild: Three Cases, With remarks on what computers can’t do (link to the blog post where I introduce it). I'm listing them in the order that I had ChatGPT create them. That will help explain why, for example, the shark in Mughal version has has a goofy look on its face and why that version has a mangled watch in the sand.
For the most part the prompt was simple, the name of a style or an artist. The manga style is my favorite. Some of the images are less successful than others.
The style of a Renaissance etching
The style of a comic book devoted to science fiction stories.
Manga style
Japanese Ukiyo-e print.
I realize that the subject matter is, shall we say, anachronistic for ukiyo-e, but that goofy guy at the lower right is a freakin' bridge too far.
Chuck Jones style (Warner Brothers).
Salvador Dali
Mughal miniature
The goofy look on the shark is absurd in this version. It's obviously been inherited from the Chuck Jones version above (which, by the way, should have flatter color). The distorted stop watch looks like leakage from the Salvador Dali version, though the Dali version does not itself have a distorted watch.
In the style of The Simpsons or Futurama.
Notice the space ship coming in from the right just above the tentacle. The color should be flatter.
Like a 10-year old boy.
Maybe it thought I meant make the guy into a 10-year old. Not what I wanted. I wanted the whole thing to be in the style of a kid's drawing.
Pick a cartoon style and cut the amount of detail in half.
Edward Hopper.
Aubrey Beardsley
Aside from the black-and-white color scheme the only thing Beardsley about this is the ornamentation in the corners. And the whole thing should be flatter.
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