Making Worlds

Generative AI tools continue to create opportunities for people to bring vision to life. The ethical questions of how these tools achieve their outcome are not going away. Still, the thrill of seeing your words brought to life is very real.

My colleague turned me on to Leonardo.Ai. Leonardo really captures how quickly these tools continue to evolve.

During slavery, this organization confined its membership principally to free negroes, as those who were yet in physical bondage were supposed to have aspirations for nothing higher than being released from chains, and were, therefore, not prepared to eagerly aspire to the enjoyment of the highest privileges of freedom. When the War of Secession was over, and all negroes were free, the society began to cautiously spread its membership among the emancipated. They conducted a campaign of education, which in every case preceded an attempt at securing members.

I used the real-time image generator function to create the image above using Leonardo. While some details are not to my liking, I can see how the program made great choices to achieve the look of a comic book page and craft images corresponding to the historical period I specified.

It is imperfect but highlights how the tool can create a moment of empowerment for the user that fires the imagination.