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Lynda Heines's avatar

Great prompt! Thanks.

Jenny MacKay's avatar

This is a great idea. I need to pause on my ancestor stories and recreate my own. I have done some but need to get back to them. You’ve given me the nudge.

Jenny Grouiller-Ruhland's avatar

This resonates deeply with work I do around AI and memory reconstruction.

The dog detail caught me — Gemini got the scene but not the colour. Golden instead of black and white. That small gap between what AI reconstructed and what you actually saw is exactly what I keep running into in my own experiments.

Two questions, if you don't mind: how did you create the images in this article? And when you look at them — how much do they reflect your actual visual memory? Not the described scene, but the felt image you carry inside.

That distance between the two is what I'm most curious about.

Carole McCulloch's avatar

Thanks Jenny for your questions! An important piece of creativity to explore, is the gap! When I am seeking visuals to illustrate creative writing, it’s a processing of memories and feelings, to formulate a prompt. Using descriptive words such as nostalgia, photo realistic, and memoirs, Gemini crafted a collection of scenes from the story I shared. When I am seeking visuals that sum up a process I turn to NotebookLM and use my uploaded narratives to frame the prompt for an infographic.