I needed to have a stock image of a bicycle for some business cards I’m putting together and thought I’d try out istockphoto.com‘s AI Generator.
Here’s the prompt I gave it, asking for a photo in 4:3 with a warm color scheme:
bicycle, a stationary bicycle, the bike is leaning up against a brick wall, the brick wall should be yellow, the bike should be blue, the bike should be dutch styled
I find all of the images amusing. None of them seem ridable. None of them have pedals. One seems to have a kickstand where the bottom-bracket is supposed to be. One looks kinda like a button. It seems to have particular difficulty with spokes against the brick background. Only one of them has a brick wall that’s actually yellow.
I think this is a nifty toy, but I also think we’ve still got a long way to go.