Rant: A friend told me my AI art was too predictable and it stung

I was showing off my latest batch of fantasy landscapes made with Midjourney, and my buddy flat out said, 'These all look the same, you're just using the same three style prompts.' That really got to me, so for the past month I've been forcing myself to use at least one weird, random word in every prompt, like 'vintage textbook' or 'rusted metal.' How do you guys push your AI image work past being safe and boring?

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4 Comments

fisher.jessica3mo ago

What if predictable isn't always a bad thing? Your friend's comment sounds harsh, but maybe having a style people can recognize is a good thing. Forcing weird words might just make your work feel random instead of yours. Maybe the trick is to go deeper on your own ideas, not just throw in random stuff.

emma_jones3mo ago

But @fisher.jessica, who said being random is the goal anyway?

evan_grant703mo agoMost Upvoted

Yeah, and that's what I liked about what @fisher.jessica said. People try so hard to be different they end up all looking the same. It's like everyone's trying to surprise you and it just gets boring.

parker_hall524d ago

Well actually I think Evan has a point but not for the reason he thinks. Three years ago I went through a phase where I forced myself to use this thesaurus app for every post and it was AWFUL. My writing lost all personality and people could tell I was just trying to sound smart. The thing is, being predictable doesn't mean being boring. Take Levi's jeans - they've looked basically the same for 150 years and nobody calls them boring because the quality and fit speak for themselves. Your friend's comment about going deeper on your own ideas is spot on. That's how you build a real style that people actually remember.