I used Google’s Gemini for infographics! Umm…. it’s a hard pass!
A content writer like myself would like to save the two hours she spends on creating an infographic on Canva.
Canva is a great creation tool but you cannot do things faster with client’s colour code, and logo insertion, and legibility — the list goes on.
So on the home page of Google Gemini’s Sign Up, there was a really attractive picture of a futuristic car on a road overlooking the mountains.
The picture was the result of a prompt — Create a picture with a high-end car driving on a rough road amid nature.
There it was — the picture — with all boxes checked!
Good for you Gemini!
But how good for me?
I decided to check it out.
I tried with content first. Here’s how it went-
I did get a feel of Chat-GPT. But hey, no introduction? Too bad!
Now, I was ready to try out the Inforgraphic creation.
My first prompt went like this —
I wasn’t sepcific enough. The fonts looked quite alien, I couldn’t read much after the main headlines.
I then entered the name of the Font, the colour pallette and clearer instructions.
Nope, still weird fonts.
I gave Gemini some more grace. May be, the tool doesn’t know Lucida Console.
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I decided Aerial then.
Ummmm
Here’s how Google has branded Gemini —
It’s supposed to be “a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind…..as a competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4”
Wow, tall claim that!
Each time Google has tried to be something other than being Google, it has failed.
Don’t believe me?
- Google Translator (which is now better I will say but at the time of its launch)
- Google Glasses
- Bard
- Bard rebranded as Gemini
You get the drift.
So graphic designers and illustrators, Rejoice in the Lord always, and again say Rejoice!
Content writers, yeah you may have two to five years to survive this wave and/or die.
Today, I am sitting behind my laptop laughing at the limitations of this AI tool. But tommorrow, I may be getting a run for my money. Or not.
I am curious, who will have the last laugh?
