You can probably repeat this blog post headline for any given service every week at this point…

Anyway! I’ve been on board the generative AI train for a few years now and it’s amazing to see how far it’s come. In October 2023, I got access to DALL-E 3 and was pretty impressed with its ability to render text.

Yesterday, OpenAI announced 4o Image Generation and boy does it kick things up a notch or two!

It’s ability to generate images and render text according to your exact prompt is incredible. We can now have full on automated AI memebots.

A four panel cartoon strip

  • first panel: a software engineer sitting in front of a computer screen on a Zoom meeting
  • second panel: the software engineer tells the participants (with a speech bubble): “I’m telling you, AI is coming for our jobs!”
  • third panel: we just see a slight closeup of the software engineer (the computer monitor isn’t visible)
  • fourth panel: same as the first panel except all the participants are now robots

Same angle and setup in every panel, reduced art style, broad outlines

Or, how about:

Cartoon drawing of a bored computer programmer sitting in front of a computer just pressed “enter” over and over. He is sarcastically excited and says, “Vibe coding. Wooooo.”

You can also feed it source images and it will run with it as well. So, obviously we need to use the Canine Calibration System.

I even gave it an image of me and told it to make a movie poster:

Create a dramatic cyberpunk 1980s horror movie poster image featuring a Computer Monster (We see an LCD screen with evil eyes and fangs and it has robotic legs) in a dark alley. In front of the monster, we see the man in this source image passed out on the ground, broken glasses lay next to him. At the top of the poster is the title of the movie in digital writing: “BUFFER OVERFLOW” at the bottom in the billing area, we see text that says, “Some bugs were never meant to be fixed.”

Or rewrite history…

Or really, really rewrite history…

It’s just wild. It’s coming for us as engineers, as musicians, as artists, as writers. This 2024 post on Twitter sums it up:

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

– Joanna Maciejewska on Twitter

Hmm, this sounds like a 4-panel comic to me!