Using AI is more difficult than you might expect

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I posted a couple of weeks ago about my first attempt at using AI to generate an image for a birthday card. That was surprisingly successful so I thought I would have another go. This time though is proving much more difficult. I have asked it to draw me a couple of stick figures doing various activities, one of which was putting up a tent. In my mind I know exactly the sort of thing I want, and I’m sure if I asked another human to draw that for me they would come up with something like I expected. I’m imagining a black and white line drawing of two stick people holding guy ropes and poles, with a half-erected tent between them. But asking AI to do it is a completely different problem. Obviously it doesn’t have the same background knowledge as another person. It doesn’t really ‘know’ what I mean by stick figures or what might be involved in putting up a tent, so it gave me a picture of a tent with some weird sort of little cartoon people climbing all over it, then added lots of extra unnecessary things it ‘thinks’ are camping related. It’s going to take some practice to get the simple picture I want. I might have to just try drawing it myself! All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2026.