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I Asked AI to Draw Beloved Medium Writers

Creating wondrous and insightful digital visions from your esteemed profiles

Prompt: A gardener. Created with Canva Magic Studio

Once upon a time, I asked AI to generate me an image of a doctor. Possibly not unsurprisingly, it gave me four almost-identical images of white men in doctor’s garb who looked like they love golf. And you won’t believe what it came up with when I asked for an image of a cleaner.

There Ain’t No Diversity, Equity and Inclusion When it Comes to AI

Maybe AI is a sweet and innocent computer program that has no choice but to machine learn from the data we’ve shat into the internet during the past 30-odd years. But it sure was revealing to see what it came up with when I gave it some fairly generic prompts.

Anyhoo and irregardless.

Some readers were curious about the images AI would come up with if we entered their profession into a generative AI prompt. So, unprompted and unasked, I obliged.

Philip Ogley is a gardener. Does Philip look like the fella in the title image? Only he can answer that question…