Nutcracker to you

 

I asked Copilot to make an image of me as a nutcracker.  At first it just gave me an image of me as a nutcracker type soldier.

I have found AI's to be very literal artificial creatures. And they are as about as obsequious as they possibly could be. Now I like a certain amount of obsequiousness as well as the next person, but after awhile you get tired of being told how amazing and astute you are when you pretty much know that isn't true. Even when you point out something they have got wrong, AI's just thank you for bringing it to their attention. But as with all good obsequiousness servants they are a bit passive aggressive and can't admit that they are ever truly wrong. They are like my son that way.

I have therefore learned to be specific and patient when I request designs. And god help you if you ask for an image that violates one of their behind the scenes restrictions created by a team of sucky lawyers and marketing people who don't want their owners to be sued because one of their AI apps created an image that was used inappropriately. What is weird is that the AI apps don't just come out and say we can't do that, they act like they are doing it and then stop after it is almost generated and say they are not allowed to create that image.  When you ask what was wrong with the request, they tap dance for awhile and act like they can do it a different way but eventually they come out with a line that sounds like it is from an old Monty Python sketch and say they can't do it and were deliberately wasting your time.

I can live with that. For the most part my AI app friends are very patient with my random requests to turn me into random characters. Fortunately I can't see them roll their virtual eyes.

Oh, I almost forgot in my usual digressions as to why I wanted an image of me as the nutcracker.

No real reason.