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Crafting AI prompts builds descriptive writing skills

To generate a satisfactory AI image, we must do for a machine what novelists have done for readers: translate objects, spaces and moods into words.
To generate a satisfactory AI image, we must do for a machine what novelists have done for readers: translate objects, spaces and moods into words.

Lei Yu

Generative AI has transformed description from a literary technique into a mass social skill. Lei Yu, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, explains how technology users must engage in an old literary practice: turning mental images, vague desires and atmospheric intuitions into precise language.