Posted in AI and Creativity

Join Me Down The Rabbit Hole

Every now and then I feel the urge to put up a short post when my experimentation excites me. And that’s what this post is!

I found a Drabble (100-word story) that AI and I had collaborated on a year or so ago. I wondered what would happen if I put the story into the prompt box for ChatGPT’s new image generation and simply asked, ‘Create an image that reflects this story.’

Here’s the image and the story:

Spare Parts

“Step on the scales, please. Clothes off, dignity optional. Ah, 78 kilograms. Slightly overweight, but don’t worry, we’ve a category for that. Category K, ‘Moderately Useful for Spare Parts.’ Oh, you thought this was about wellness? How quaint. No, we’ve abandoned that old NHS model. Too costly. This is resource management. Let me see… lungs, average. Liver, below average. Kidneys, passable, though a bit scuffed. Eyes? Blue. Valuable. You’ll be pleased to know you’ll be recycled into three future citizens. I’m told the procedure is relatively pain free. Don’t worry, we’ll inform your wife you won’t be home for tea”


My Thoughts

What I found most intriguing was, not only does the image represent the story extremely well, but it was the way it had used lines from the story to embellish the story. So, you get the various screens displaying body weight, lungs average, liver below average etc. Mindblowing!

Call To Thought

If you haven’t played with this latest image generator do give it a go and join me down the rabbit hole.


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Posted in The AI Drabble Challenge

I Gave AI Five Words and a Picture – Here’s the Story It Wrote

I’ve always wondered whether AI could truly capture human emotion, not in a grand novel or sweeping script, but in something small and precise. A story distilled to exactly 100-words. As someone who’s recently set up the weekly AI Drabble Challenge, it felt only fair that I should try it myself. Could a machine take a handful of words, a single image, and craft something that feels alive?

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Posted in The AI Drabble Challenge

The AI Drabble Challenge: 100 Words, Infinite Possibilities

What Is the AI Drabble Challenge?

I’ve always loved the discipline of writing a Drabble (a 100-word story). A Drabble forces you to choose every word with care, no padding, no shortcuts. Now I’m curious: what happens when we invite AI into the process?

Can AI really help us write better stories, or does it simply hold up a mirror to our imagination?

This post launches a brand new weekly AI writing challenge where we explore that question together.

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