Artificial Intelligence art you create with words

No art skills? No problem! Thanks to a new A.I. program online you can “create” original artwork with a few words. That’s right — words, not tricky paint programs or photo filters or complicated Photoshop.

I did it last night using the phrase: “Tucson after a flood in the style of Van Gogh.” It took less than one minute for the Craiyon A.I. to create the nine images, below. Four images showed a pronounced Van Gogh effect. And 6 put emphasis on the word “flood”. One was painterly but not necessarily Van Gogh. But in all 9 images “Tucson” was interpreted as saguaros!

A second version of flooded Tucson

Ok, I thought. That was yesterday. Let’s see if that A.I. creates the same images today, so I entered the phrase again: “Tucson after a flood in the style of VanGogh”. Here are the nine images it created this morning.

More “Van Gogh” this time, less “flood” and lots more desert in the nine images created this morning. While there are what appear to be houses in a couple of the images, the primary signifier for Tucson is still saguaros. So now you know how A.I. programs think of our city: cactus in the desert.

Want to try creating A.I. art yourself? Go here. (No violence and no faces.)

And here is how “Tucson after a flood” looks in real life.

Have fun!