You wouldn't believe the trouble I had the other day trying to get a generative AI image creator to do what I wanted it to do. I wanted a creative image that depicted a line of people representing different emotions in vibrant colours.

If they were not a pain to crop nicely, they were facing all sorts of directions. And then as my collaborator Luba Kassova pointed out, they were not a diverse bunch. Sometimes they were all Caucasian. Some were all men. One was one man in the middle of a group of women. She wrote about this problem a while back.

So I specified: two men, two women. One of each race: white, black, Hispanic and Asian. Facing all in the right hand direction. I still got lots of Caucasians. I still had people facing the wrong way. I sometimes got five or six people. Some didn't have eyes. The problems magnified.

We got there in the end after lots of prompt experimentation. So I thought I'd save........

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