I was chatting with someone about some picture and I noted that maybe we could find something appropriate. I prompted DuckDuckGo with "raccoon trash panda digging in garbage can". It gave me a whole grid of pictures, of which I quickly picked the following as my favorites. <div style="display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 15px"><img src="{att_link}trash_panda_relaxing_in_a_garbage_can_as_if_were_a_hot_tub.jpg" href="{att_link}trash_panda_relaxing_in_a_garbage_can_as_if_were_a_hot_tub.jpg" align="none" caption="Trash panda relaxing in a garbage can as if were a hot tub" scale="25%"><img src="{att_link}trash_panda_peeking_out_of_garbage_can.jpg" href="{att_link}trash_panda_peeking_out_of_garbage_can.jpg" align="none" caption="Trash panda peeking out of garbage can" scale="25%"><img src="{att_link}trash_panda_living_its_best_life_in_a_trash_can.jpg" href="{att_link}trash_panda_living_its_best_life_in_a_trash_can.jpg" align="none" caption="Trash panda living its best life in a trash can" scale="25%"><img src="{att_link}trash_panda_head_down_up_to_its_hips_in_a_trash_can.jpg" href="{att_link}trash_panda_head_down_up_to_its_hips_in_a_trash_can.jpg" align="none" caption="Trash panda head down up to its hips in a trash can.jpg" scale="25%"></div> My interlocutor had never really used any of the LLM-based machines before, so I gave GitHub Copilot a whirl. I prompted GitHub Copilot: "Show me a cartoon of a raccoon digging in a trash can with its butt in the air". It gave me the following: <div style="display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 15px"><img src="{att_link}raccoon_in_a_flowerpot_with_a_monkey_s_ass.jpg" href="{att_link}raccoon_in_a_flowerpot_with_a_monkey_s_ass.jpg" align="none" caption="Raccoon in a flowerpot with a monkey's ass" scale="25%"><img src="{att_link}raccoon_in_a_trash_can_with_dangling_feet.jpg" href="{att_link}raccoon_in_a_trash_can_with_dangling_feet.jpg" align="none" caption="Raccoon in a trash can with dangling feet" scale="25%"></div> The second one is not bad at all, but the first one! What the heck? Is this what Copilot thinks I want when I ask for a cartoon of an animal? Maybe most people using these things are there to sexualize animals? At any rate, I figured it should cover it up so I can use the graphic in SFW situations. Prompt: "Put some orange swim shorts on him" <img src="{att_link}raccoon_in_a_trash_can_with_an_orange_swimsuit_and_an_offset_tail.jpg" href="{att_link}raccoon_in_a_trash_can_with_an_orange_swimsuit_and_an_offset_tail.jpg" align="none" caption="Raccoon in a trash can with an orange swimsuit and an offset tail" scale="25%"> As I've experienced every other time I've tried generating images, there is just no way to get it to build on the previous image. You can't include it as a template. A human artist would have given me the first two images, but with an orange swimsuit. Copilot gives me a completely different graphic of a raccoon towering over a garbage can, but with orange swim shorts, as requested. Its tail is kind of just pasted on. Why? Because Copilot has no idea what a tail is. There's just a high probability that there's something stripy at the other end of a raccoon from its face. The images I got just on the first page of DuckDuckGo are all way better. That took me seconds. Generating images takes a lot longer and never really gets to the desired result.