130 LEONARDO DI (F)AI(L)…

Remember I was saying that I might need to cut AI some slack after Leonardo, the image-creating website, took my prompt, embellished it, and came up with something better than I could ever create? It has subsequently shown itself to be thicker than a whale omelette again.

I modified the “Create a realistic photo of a modern white Abarth 500 rally car in Martini racing colours driving along an alpine pass at speed” prompt by changing the colour to black and adding John Player Special Racing instead of Martini. The results are, well, rubbish, to be honest! It added some gold and red stripes and, inexplicably, a deformed Red Bull logo (see first image below).

I then modified the prompt again, changing the Abarth 500 to a Ford Kuga and asking it to mock up the car in full A-Team van garb.  The results are even worse for this!  The software thinks that adding red accents to the front or putting a giant ‘A-Teamst’ logo (see first image below) on the side is a decent approximation of the request!  Utter tosh!

The Martini Racing livery is iconic. Hence, there are probably more references on the internet for AI to study and attempt to reproduce, which is why it made a better fist of creating a colour scheme for a white Abarth 500.  There are also already Abarth 500s decked out in the famous red, blue and light blue colours the software can crib.

So, I’m back to asserting that AI isn’t the human-killing machine I was worried about just yet. It is good at regurgitating Wikipedia or applying grammatical rules to documents, but when it comes to creativity, it is thankfully still limited. Not today, Skynet, not today!