AI Images from Microsoft

Returning to the topic of AI I tried out MicroSoft Create to see how useful the results would be. 

First, I asked the software to generate an image of '5 men and 3 women sitting in a circle':

• It gave me 5 people (so it can't do maths);
• They were in business attire;
• They were all aged in their 30s.

Not a bad start so I refined the description to '5 men and 3 women, casual clothing, aged 40 to 60, sitting in a circle:

• 5 people in one image, 9 people in another!
• dressed casually;
• they were mostly silver-haired and very sociable.

Finally, I tried again, adding the word 'watercolour', hoping that this would blur details of the people:

• Create was still unable to count to give me the number of men and women I wanted but the image I chose was acceptable as a partial group for the purpose I had in mind.

I was still puzzled about the number of people, so I put in the number 8 - below are the descriptions and the resulting images:

Quite exasperating.

By adding the word 'watercolour' there was a slightly different result:

Each those groups of images included one group of 8 people. However, is it really AI? I'm left wondering if these images are generated on request or, quite likely, are found in an image database, meaning that the description is just a database search.

So... I did a reverse-image search and, to be fair, whilst there were many similarly structured images, I couldn't find the exact same one, therefore it seems that Create is at least partially generating AI. Free and fast, it's definitely worth a go.

I'll try another online AI image creator next time and compare results.