AI Art - can it inspire?

Most human inspiration comes from combining different experiences into a new idea.  AI Art Generators harvest the experiences we share with the internet and transform it into new images.

What if I take this a step further and take the AI art and use it to inspire my own art?  
So far it's not going very well as there's often something off about the art.  Is it because I know it's AI-generated or does the AI not yet know how to capture that special something?


I found  Hotpot generators that gives 10 free art (although it will duplicate if you put the same prompt and style in, so be careful not to use up credits that way) without having to download anything (except cookies, but duckduckgo browser is a good solution for that).

Today's prompt: baby chicken and a paintbrush

The first few weren't bad, but now it's just getting silly.



That's one badass chicken

Now, check out the toes on this one



this folk art style is kind of cute, but again with the toes.  Poor chicken!



and after several with no paintbrush or no chicken, I asked for it in the Chinese painting style.



um... okay.  

One more try



awe, so cute... weird paintbrush.

Seeing this nearly two years later, it sure makes me laugh.

And yet...i wonder if I can take what I learned about painting chickens since then and improve on what ai came up with...

Oh, so these were two years ago?

Current AI pictures give me a very creepy feeling. These ones do not, not particularly. It’s a feeling of having lost track of one’s soul, something essential inside me fleeing. That is why I try to avoid AI images whenever I can. I am interested and curious to hear if anyone else finds this the case.

And, if anyone knows the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman—I would compare the feeling to being touched by a specter.

Sorry, please forgive my Luddite ways. I may be unusual in this.

Edit: perhaps AI images are now feeding off of each other? Maybe this adds an extra level of uncanniness? Like when the ancient Egyptians kept copying pictures of lions despite not having them in Egypt any more, such that eventually they stopped looking like lions? Or what happened to beavers in European art and folklore?

We found out that Meta/facebook is making public people's conversations with AI, be it asking AI to draw something or asking AI what to do about an oozing sore. You can find out more about how facebook is making it's chats with AI public in the article by the BBC. And, if you go to https://www.meta.ai, you can see some of people's chats and prompts with Meta A.I.

When my husband found out how Meta was making  people's stuff public, he went and deleted all his AI prompts. In the process, we found the pictures of the cross that I used to inspire the cross I made for my Mother in Law.

I had felt rather icky about using A.I., even if just for inspiration. But, my Mother-in-Law had requested a "baby blue and baby pink needle felted cross," and that was so far out of my normal style that I was totally at a loss. Having A.I. generate some images for inspiration did help a lot, but I'm still uncomfortable with having had to resort to using it.

I'm pretty sure the prompt was "needle felted pale pink and pale blue cross." I didn't use any of the designs. But, the idea of the blue boarder and pink flowers gave me the inspiration I needed to put a pink trinity clover in the center with a blue boarder.

Maieshe Ljin wrote:Current AI pictures give me a very creepy feeling. These ones do not, not particularly. It’s a feeling of having lost track of one’s soul, something essential inside me fleeing.

I wonder if you're just describing the uncanny valley or it's some extended, but probably related, phenomenon.