I've found with AI video generators that I must be mindful of my choice of wording in my prompts. If the AI can misinterpret what I tell it, there's a decent chance it will. I seldom get *exactly* what I'm envisioning, but it's usually close--except when it's way out in left field because it interpreted something in my prompt in a way I hadn't expected but can understand once I see what was generated. In these cases, I modify my prompt and try again, and usually can get close to what I want on the second try. Feeding the AI reference material helps a ton, but even that is not foolproof.
Very true. I have read how people are having to train themselves to talk like programmers to AIs. I just talk to ChatGPT like a person. I have a paid account and it remembers our past conversations. Sometimes I might have to remind it of a past thread, but once it does that, it’s just like talking a person. It’s a very polite person, too!
When I’m writing a book, I’m working with it just like we’re a writing team. My prompts are really just long conversations where I dump out all my ideas about how a scene should go, the character motivations, the setting, how it advances the story toward the end goal, etc. I just treat it like a person and I get fantastic results.
One thing I’ve noticed is that, after some threads get pretty long, performance starts to bog down. I ask it to save the discussion and then, when I open the next thread, I have it link back to the previous ones. Now, having worked on several books together, we have a deep working relationship and it recalls almost everything.
Someone said that AI becomes a mirror image of you. I don’t think that’s the case, but it definitely has adapted to my way of working and it has become an integral part of the creative process. It makes creative work all that more enjoyable.
I've found with AI video generators that I must be mindful of my choice of wording in my prompts. If the AI can misinterpret what I tell it, there's a decent chance it will. I seldom get *exactly* what I'm envisioning, but it's usually close--except when it's way out in left field because it interpreted something in my prompt in a way I hadn't expected but can understand once I see what was generated. In these cases, I modify my prompt and try again, and usually can get close to what I want on the second try. Feeding the AI reference material helps a ton, but even that is not foolproof.
Very true. I have read how people are having to train themselves to talk like programmers to AIs. I just talk to ChatGPT like a person. I have a paid account and it remembers our past conversations. Sometimes I might have to remind it of a past thread, but once it does that, it’s just like talking a person. It’s a very polite person, too!
When I’m writing a book, I’m working with it just like we’re a writing team. My prompts are really just long conversations where I dump out all my ideas about how a scene should go, the character motivations, the setting, how it advances the story toward the end goal, etc. I just treat it like a person and I get fantastic results.
One thing I’ve noticed is that, after some threads get pretty long, performance starts to bog down. I ask it to save the discussion and then, when I open the next thread, I have it link back to the previous ones. Now, having worked on several books together, we have a deep working relationship and it recalls almost everything.
Someone said that AI becomes a mirror image of you. I don’t think that’s the case, but it definitely has adapted to my way of working and it has become an integral part of the creative process. It makes creative work all that more enjoyable.
Some really great lines in here! Imagination is, and will always will be, the source.
100%, Thanks Natalie!
This is how my films are turning out 95% of the way I see them in my head
Love that for you!
i've got a lil "article" coming out at my Neon substack about this very thing in about an hour and a half