Please produce an original impressionist painting in the style of Renoir. A lady is steering a gondola. There are no men in the painting. The only person in the painting is the lady.

Each day when I start experimenting with Bing Chat AI I start a WordPad text file, a .rtf file, I name the file including the date, today is 20240123 Tuesday, then the files are sorted alphabetically by name in date order.

As I proceed I write each prompt that I intend to use in the WordPad file before using it, then copy and paste into Bing Chat AI to use it. I then paste the URL address of the image group into the WordPad file. If I get a text response from Bing Chat AI I copy from Bing Chat AI and paste into the WordPad file.

I save the WordPad file as I proceed. So I now have a collection of WordPad files with all the prompts that I have used. Indeed I am drafting this forum response in the same file and I noted the time, 23:15, before I started writing this forum response.

Please produce an original impressionist painting in the style of Renoir of a lady writing a letter. Please include in the painting an area to the right of her head that has another painting within it. The second painting indicates her thoughts. Her thoughts are of a man. Please include a third painting by the head of the man. The third painting indicates the thoughts of the man. The man is thinking of the lady.

Please produce an original impressionist painting in the style of Renoir of a lady writing a villanelle. Please include in the painting an area to the right of her head that has another painting within it. The second painting indicates her thoughts. Her thoughts are of a beach, the sea and seabirds.

Those are good results.

What were the prompts that you used please?

William

I was trying to get a picture of crane birds before a gibbous moon.

Previously it has been established that Bing Chat AI will not paint a gibbous moon when asked for a gibbous moon.

So I decided to try to get the desired result by describing the moon otherwise than by using the word "gibbous".

Yet however I have phrased the prompt thus far it is always a full moon that is produced.

So, hey ho, maybe it is just not possible.

So, on what I suppose is a researcher's hunch, I thought of trying some other celestial body. Hmm - Saturn would be distinctive - I wonder if Bing Chat AI will do that. Yes, it will! Those look good, I'll post one to the thread. Well, post two.

Imagine please a real life artist who paints pictures for a fee. How would he or she react to being asked to paint such a picture by a fee-paying client? How does a garage mechanic who usually works on new cars react when he is assigned to a customer's many years old car that the customer wants to keep going? Maybe it is one of the best cars that he has to work on (What!) Ah, but the customer pays the bill promptly upon receiving the invoice. Do all of the people with new cars pay the bill promptly?

The answer to the second question asked of me in the post is, as far as I know, "No".

I opine that the first picture is particularly stylish.

I am asked "Why do you consider this a good result?"

I have thought of what answer I can state. I do consider it a good result, but I find it hard to express why. It has expanded my knowledge of what Bing Chat AI can be prompted to produce. Bing Chat AI will not place a gibbous moon in the background, but it will place Saturn.

I remember a movie, I don't remember which, where a woman is on stage and starts to sing a song, then the curtain is pulled down on her mid-performance, and then she is not part of the rest of the movie, yet that actress is recorded in that movie, so she got the part and is remembered. That picture might perhaps get reproduced in an article on AI somewhere, sometime and it may get accompanied by a Journalist's Downbeat Quip but it would still have been mentioned and printed in the article.

I remember a feature in one episode of a television show called "That's Life" many years ago where fun was poked at a publication about people where basically it seems that if someone paid a fee then the person could have a page about themself in the book and got a copy of the book. So if I remember correctly there was a page quoted about a man who ran a small filling station somewhere in the American Mid-West. Yet, I wonder where those books are now? Are they family heirlooms, are they in local history collections, is one in The Library of Congress? And the programme did inform me of the existence of the book and I thought about its concept and its implications, then and now.

That first picture of the cranes and Saturn. There is the possibility that I will use Affinity Designer software to enlarge that picture and place it on an A3 size canvas and then produce an A3 size PDF document and then get five copies printed in colour on 350 gsm paper. Yet hush, would I dare say so?

And yes, this reply does ramble, it does jump from topic to topic in a way that some people may find peculiar, yet that is a matter for them, yet this is my reply and it makes logical sense to me. ... Yes, I know, I know.

The prompt was as follows.

Please produce an original impressionist painting of some crane birds in front of Saturn.

Once upon a time, on a breezy day by the seaside, a lady in a soft, gentle yellow dress was taking a leisurely stroll. Her dress, as delicate as morning sunlight, fluttered in the wind that blew from her right side. She wore a wide-brimmed red hat that added a contrast to her attire. Her long, light brown hair flowed down like a cascading waterfall, dancing freely with the rhythm of the wind.

As she walked along the sandy beach, her eyes reflecting the vast expanse of the sea, an impressionist artist noticed her. He was captivated by her serene beauty and the picturesque scene of which she was a part. Gathering his courage, he approached her and asked, “May I please paint your picture?”

The lady, surprised yet flattered, agreed with a gentle smile. She posed for the artist, looking directly at him. Her smile, as soft as the yellow of her dress, was beautifully infectious. The artist, inspired by her grace and the enchanting surroundings, began to paint.

With each stroke of his brush, he captured not just the lady’s physical likeness, but also the essence of the moment. The sky, sea, and sand formed a harmonious backdrop, enhancing the lady’s elegance. The wind seemed to whisper tales into the artist’s ears, guiding his hand as he painted.

As the artist progressed, the painting started to come alive. It was as if he was not just creating a piece of art, but also weaving a story - a story of a beautiful day, a charming lady, and a moment that stood still in time. The painting, much like the day, was a testament to the beauty of simplicity and the charm of the mundane.

And so, the day etched itself onto the canvas, immortalizing the lady in the yellow dress, the artist, and their brief, yet unforgettable encounter by the seaside. The painting was a silent melody, a visual poetry, a beautiful story painted in colors and emotions. And every time someone looked at it, they could hear the sea, feel the wind, and see the lady with the gentle smile, forever frozen in time, yet as alive as the day itself.

It seems to me that better results can be achieved with getting paintings if one regards the AI as a competent and helpful artist whose native language is not English and who has only studied English as a foreign language at a basic level. So build up what one wants in a sequence of sentences that each have a simple structure.

I am not very good at faces but is Bing Chat AI using the same faces in various pictures, as if the AI has been trained on a limited number of artist's models and if it needs a face it uses one from its licensed collection or something like that?

William

The prompts.

The picture.

Please produce an impressionist painting of a lady facing forward. The lady is looking straight ahead. The lady is smiling. The lady is wearing a yellow dress. The lady has long hair. The hair flows down in front of her. The hair flows loosely down in front of both sides of her body.

The story.

Please write a story about a man who visits an art exhibition of impressionist paintings and viewing one picture falls in love with the lady in the picture. A lady wearing a yellow dress, looking directly forward and smiling. Yet he feels disappointment as he believes the picture to be over a hundred years old. Yet he is mistaken as the exhibition turns out to be of recent paintings that have been artificially aged so as to demonstrate the technique involved. Please continue the story.