The End of My Journey After Believing 'You Can Reproduce It With This Prompt'

When you are doing image generation, there is a phrase you will inevitably encounter at least once.

You can reproduce it with this prompt

Ah, if only I had this.
No more gacha for facial features.
My girl will stay my girl forever.
No matter when or what scene I draw, the same girl will appear.
Even if I change the pose, of course!

There was a time when I thought that too.

I created an index to make it easier to find wandering articles.

So, what happened?

Suddenly,
a stranger appeared.
Who is this? Hey, who are you?
Like, 'Oh, nice to meet you' kind of vibe.

No, I exaggerated.
It's close, though.
The atmosphere is there. The colors are similar too.
But, it's not my girl.
But you know...

'Who are you?'

I actually asked that to the screen.

And this doesn't just happen once.
It feels like the more time passes since the successful generation, the more 'Who are you?' moments occur.
Doesn't that happen to you?


Did I forget her even though I created her?

Humans forget things too.
So, I decided to have the prompt summarized at one point. Then it should be reproducible, right? > Chappy'This is the finished version'The prompt that was summarized like that.
The one that was organized so beautifully.
I was thrilled to receive it because they said I could mass-produce with this.

I had such high expectations and threw it into a new Chat, right?

It's off.

'Wait, where did the girl from earlier go?'That's what happens.
It was supposed to be guaranteed, but... well...

Here, I thought about it a little.
Is the prompt bad?

No, that's not it.

Because that prompt,
it worked perfectly at that time.
It's what you call reproducible.
But sometimes it doesn't work.

So what is happening?
Because, it's AI.
I can't just keep saying things like Mitsuo Aida... you know.

To conclude—
a prompt wasn't a perfect blueprint.

This is a super important point.
I think this is probably what's happening in our heads.

'If I input this text (prompt), this same character will appear'

But in reality, it's different.
'The result of the AI interpreting it on the spot after seeing this text'
is what it actually is.

So,

・The chat changes
・The context changes
・The way the AI perceives it changes

Just because of that, it naturally drifts.

I mean, it's obvious that it would drift, since it's all about the flow of the moment.
The AI is generating things by reading the room, after all.
But you don't notice this while you're doing it, do you?
How should I put it,
don't we have this ingrained assumption that
'computers are always right'?

So, what did I do?

I pretty much stopped using prompts.
Chappy kindly offers to provide a prompt every time, but I mostly ignore it.
I realized there's a better way that fits, so I switched to that.

I mean, really.
Isn't it a bit exhausting to keep trying to reproduce something that just won't reproduce?

In that case,

'This character is fine as they are'

I figured it's faster to just accept that.

So lately,

・If I can think 'well, that's fine' about the finished image, I use it as is
・If I'm going to publish it, I show it based on the image rather than the prompt

I'm aiming in a direction like that.

This isn't me running away.

It's my own way of choosing how to create things properly.
Of course, that doesn't mean prompts are meaningless.
I actually want to create a prompt that produces the same result no matter who uses it, where, or how.
I can't do it yet, though. I'm still challenging myself.

However, image generation is

“You can perfectly reproduce it with this”

If you expect too much from those words,
I think it becomes a pretty tough world.

So, what should you do?
How do you keep your 'original character' consistent?

There is a little trick to this.

Using this method,
I've largely escaped from the state of
“a stranger appearing every single time.”

I've put together that story in order, including
“why prompts weren't enough”👇

I graduated. A record of how I used minor adjustments as a 'stepping stone' to change the stress of not being able to fix a character. | MeiMei

Honestly, at first, I thought, 'Is that all it takes?'

But when I actually tried it,

"Oh, so that's all it took."

It was almost anticlimactic.

If you're currently thinking,
"Oh no, another thing I don't know..."
please just give it a try once.