Alt history NYC
Because generating generic fantasy cities is now too easy, I asked Claude to come up with a specific alt history timeline for NYC (see below) and then draw some scenes from it.
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Solitary pursuits
ChatGPT Sol likes to produce image prompts about domestic life.
Fabulous ideas
When Fable was briefly free
Green Tara
Variations of the classical Tibetan Buddhist image
Vermeer and Renoir
Interestingly, Gemini NanoBanana produced much better Vermeer-inspired images compared with ChatGPT, but for Renoir-styled images it’s the exact opposite.
AI Assistant talking to Language
A Gemini production. Posting unmodified.
Movie trailers
We now can string together several 8-second AI clips into a longer movie, but it’s futile to expect continuity of objects and people between them, at least with consumer tools like Veo.
Illustrated LLM poetry
LLMs are still (as of July 2025) pretty bad at poetry… but maybe that’s because they don’t really understand how humans read text.
Fictional sci-fi novels
Three Quarks for Muster Markov
Yo veo también, Pt 2.
And now for true generative art - let’s see what Veo videos chatbots will create if they have creative control.