From module 1 of the course · Break down and rebuild

The same prompt, with and without a picture of my fox

I gave Claude a still of my fox walking through a gym and asked it to write a very descriptive prompt for that image. Then I asked it to change the gym to a basketball court. On the left is what that prompt made on its own. On the right is the same prompt again, this time with the gym still uploaded beside it. Drag the line across to compare them.

Paul's grumpy fox, round head and short muzzle, in a navy tracksuit on a basketball court A slimmer fox with a long muzzle and a long tail in a navy tracksuit on a basketball court
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The prompt on its own
The prompt and my picture

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What each side was given

The prompt, word for word, on both sides

A cinematic 3D-animated anthropomorphic fox walking directly toward the camera across the polished hardwood of an indoor basketball court. The fox has plush, detailed orange fur, a white muzzle and chest ruff, large expressive amber-yellow eyes with heavy, half-lidded lids and a deadpan, unimpressed expression - visibly exhausted and unenthusiastic about being there. It wears a navy blue zip-up tracksuit with white side stripes on the jacket sleeves and track pants, crisp white sneakers, and a white towel draped over one shoulder. Its bushy tail sways behind it.

Background: softly blurred gymnasium interior with tall windows flooding hazy morning sunlight across the court, out-of-focus human players shooting and dribbling, a hoop and backboard on the left, retracted bleachers and a rack of basketballs along the right wall. Shallow depth of field, warm volumetric light rays, long shadows and reflections on the glossy painted court lines.

Style: Pixar/DreamWorks-quality character rendering, photorealistic environment, 16:9 cinematic framing, subtle film grain.

The picture I added on the right

The original still: Paul's fox in a navy tracksuit walking through a gym

A still from a short film of my fox. The prompt describes his fur, his eyes and his tracksuit well. It never says his head is big and round, his muzzle is short or his paws are dark brown mittens, so on its own it got a fox, but not my fox.

The left image was made in Seedream and the right in ChatGPT. Both were given the prompt above word for word, and only the right was given the picture.

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