Prompt engineering course-sellers are like the pick-and-shovel sellers during the California Gold Rush of the 19th century: they're the first ones to get rich, and everyone else who comes later is going to have a LOT more competition.
First of all, full disclosure, I’m an artist and poet, a designer for over 20 years. I have completely embraced ai imaging in the past several months. It has been so exciting! I work with ai imaging every day and prompt language is serious business for imaging. I get asked a lot on Discord what prompts I use to create. I have to say it’s really about the basics that I learned in art classes in high school and college plus my own knowledge of poetry and language that has helped me. I love creating with ai, whether it is with bing dall-e copilot, adobe, Fotor, google, etc... I do find barriers though.
" I get asked a lot on Discord what prompts I use to create. I have to say it’s really about the basics that I learned in art classes in high school and college plus my own knowledge of poetry and language that has helped me."
Barriers seem to be subjective and intentional, however. The other day I asked the ai to create an image “feature political parties and us elections” Well, the ai yelled at me saying that I didn’t have permission. Really? Ultimately, who’s pulling the strings here?
Appreciate this fresh angle on Prompt Engineering and what people misunderstand about it.
It's very helpful for creating a safer and fairer AI.
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Prompt engineering course-sellers are like the pick-and-shovel sellers during the California Gold Rush of the 19th century: they're the first ones to get rich, and everyone else who comes later is going to have a LOT more competition.
Great analogy
First of all, full disclosure, I’m an artist and poet, a designer for over 20 years. I have completely embraced ai imaging in the past several months. It has been so exciting! I work with ai imaging every day and prompt language is serious business for imaging. I get asked a lot on Discord what prompts I use to create. I have to say it’s really about the basics that I learned in art classes in high school and college plus my own knowledge of poetry and language that has helped me. I love creating with ai, whether it is with bing dall-e copilot, adobe, Fotor, google, etc... I do find barriers though.
" I get asked a lot on Discord what prompts I use to create. I have to say it’s really about the basics that I learned in art classes in high school and college plus my own knowledge of poetry and language that has helped me."
Exactly
Barriers seem to be subjective and intentional, however. The other day I asked the ai to create an image “feature political parties and us elections” Well, the ai yelled at me saying that I didn’t have permission. Really? Ultimately, who’s pulling the strings here?
That's a good prediction. With powerful technologies, we always find new possible uses, leading to multiple hype cycles before we eventually settle.
Since you're reading this a few months later: what do you think of the diagnosis. Do you think it matched up well with reality?