The First Christmas Eve

 

ChatGPT and I hammered this idea about the First Christmas Eve yesterday.  It started with a questions, "Good morning! Is there a classic image that represents Eve of Adam and Eve fame that we can spoof with Eve reaching for a red Christmas ornament on a Christmas tree with the title THE FIRST CHRISTMAS EVE."

It responded enthusiastically at first but after working on the image for a bit I got this message:

"We’re so sorry, but the image we created may violate our guardrails around nudity, sexuality, or erotic content. If you think we got it wrong, please retry or edit your prompt." I found this particularly ironic since the whole Adam and Eve revolved around original sin and realizing that they were naked and somehow equating that with sinful behavior.  So I responded, "Please retry and avoid implications of nudity, secuality and erotic content." And it gave me this:

I responded: "I don't think it translates easy enough that this is Eve of Adam and Eve fame. Can you make it look more like this image but have the tree be a Christmas Tree, and make the red ornament look a little like an apple? Notice in this image Eve's body is covered modestly by her hair. And I think it needs Adam to make the joke work."

I waited for it to create a new image halfway expecting it to evoke the nudity clause again, but then it popped out this: 

This was almost there, but I then asked for it to make the garland into the serpent and make the ornament more like an apple. After a few two-headed snakes and too many apple ornaments we finally arrived at the image at the top of this post which I am very proud of and turned into a t-shirt, a tote bag and a poster.

I hope this demonstrates that just because ChatGPT is the actual artist, it doesn't mean I don't play a larger role in coming up and creating the designs.  And I'm pretty proud of this one. Which no one has bought regardless, but I'm used to that by now.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good morning (and I don't know why AI gave Santa a shield, either).